About
Brant is a scientist, practitioner, and entrepreneur. He endeavors to explore, advance, and apply the science of Computational Intelligence and Advanced Technology to industry. In particular he is interested in the financial services sector where he provides world class expertise and advice on the application & use of computational intelligence and advance technology to the financial system microstructure. His primary areas of expertise is in neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, Intelligent Agents, massively computational intense systems, econometrics and financial engineering. But he also keeps his eyes on upcoming advances in science and technology; currently this includes quantum computing, network science, complexity, quantum gravity, and nanotechnology. As the financial markets continually change, both in microstructure and behavior, so does the need for the underlying computational methods. Brant is currently working on several projects that promote and aid in the application of advanced technology to Capital Markets and the financial industry in general.
This Blog is didicated to exploring the area of Electronic Market Microstructure. This includes the all popular electronic trading, as in the front end trade cature and “simple” execution. Buts also includes other areas like alogrithmic trading, for both execution and trade decision, liquity aggreators including Dark pool sweepers and DMA. It will cover crossing networks. It will also be trauned on new ideas that we can bring to light for the market.”
He is also currently responsible Advisory for the Global Financial Services Practice within Corpus Consulting. The practice has been organized into the four lines of business-including; (i) Global Markets/IB, (ii) Asset Management, (iii) (Re) Insurance & (iv) Retail Banking. These organizations delivery projects to major financial institutions throughout the world through four distinct service offerings; custom application build, package implementation, process improvement, and knowledge outsourcing. Projects types include securities lending hubs & auctions, electronic trading systems, enterprise risk systems, exotic trading systems, such as weather and energy derivatives, FX trading systems, order management systems, equity program trading, (re) insurance risk financing and regulatory loan exposure calculations, to mention but a few. The business currently has a global network, with offices in New York, London, Charlotte, Chicago, Toronto, and India.
Brant began his career in academia, researching computational intelligence, which he has written several papers on, and then became a career consultant whilst continuing his research. He has a long track record of delivering mission critical projects for some of the most prestigious clients on Wall Street requiring computationally intense and resilient solutions. In the wake of new enabling technologies and the availability of massive amounts of data, he is now concentrated on two things; delivering a even higher level of quality technology and the second, researching and advancing the science of computational intelligence and its application to global financial markets. This will be achieved by releasing unprecedented computational scale through newly realized methods unachievable only several years ago, and discussed in the following Blogs:
- Advanced Technology and Methods within Finance Blog
- Electronic Market Microstructure Blog
- Computational Intelligence within Finance Blog
- Global Finance: A Chaotic or Structured Network Blog
Educational Background
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, University of Aberdeen. Dissertation entitled “The Application of Neural Networks to Software Reengineering”. A UNIX based client-server software reengineering tool running under X Windows, was developed, which mapped structured source code (COBOL) to an Object-Oriented representation (OMT). (NC).
B.Sc., Electronic Engineering, University of New Brunswick, studies concentrated on “Analog VLSI and Neural Networks”, where a pattern recognition neural network was implemented in both discrete electronic components & 1.3 CMOS VLSI technologies using various tools including Workview & Cadence.
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Very interesting site Brant.
An unusual mix of news, links and blogs that any slaesperson selling electromic market access for a broker like Interactive Brokers would approeciate.
Besides connecting commission clients to stock, options, futures, fx in 14 countries, IB has particular expertise in US equity options routing.
Good day John
John,
Thank you very much!
Is in the realm of what I’m trying to do. The objective is to bridge certain gaps in the chain of understanding of global financial markets as a whole. I started off as A Ph.D. analyst, then technologist then business specialist, so I have seen it from all angles and would like to see technologist understand the business and vise versa.
If you have any critiques, suggestions or recommendations please do not hesitate.
Cheers.
Brant.