About Me
The principal consultant in the Banking Domain is Arif Jaffer who is a forward thinking technical lead developer/manager/Director with almost 30 years of technical and business experience, and the agility to deliver complex solutions to satisfy the business needs for a variety of clients including Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Bank Of America, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, NatWest and VTB, including as an Architect, Development Manager, Program Manager, Hands on technical team lead, Business Analyst and mentor. Has a pragmatic and realistic approach to software development and management, allowing for adaptability in delivery strategy whilst always keeping an eye on quality and timelines that are in line with the client’s needs.
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A note from Arif
The two professional passions and interests I have are Investment Banking, especially Derivatives and Software development. I realised my love of software when I was at University and I had to do a Maths elective, so I choose programming 101 as the professor had a reputation for being easy on his students. Within 3 weeks of the course ( Pascal on a VAX PDP 11 ) I had completed the textbook and was hungry for more so I added a degree in Computer Science to my Bachelors in International Business. I also realised my love of Derivatives when I studied financial instruments at University and was fascinated at how the Risk was Managed and how Derivatives can be used in various strategies such as Straddles, Strangles etc in order to achieve various investment objectives,Today I combine both these interests by specialising in Software solutions for Investment Banks. The technology has changed somewhat as back in the day we used Cobol 85 and C and now I mainly work in C++, Java and Scala, but I still love FinTech.
The world has changed significantly since I started my career in 1991 but those changes have been fascinating to watch and interesting to learn. As computing power has increased in line with Moores Law, so what we can do with that power has changed. The way we look at Risk in Banking now is completely different to the simple models we used back in the day.
Some Articles of technical interest
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