About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Blogs

Fitch Solutions Appoints Joao Garcia to Lead its Quantitative Analytics Group

Subscribe to our newsletter

Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Joao Garcia as the managing director for its Quantitative Analytics Group.

Joao will be responsible for the quantitative financial research of the group as well as the management and development of its credit based products, which span areas such as credit risk, interest rate risk and market risk. Based in London, he will report to Thomas Aubrey, managing director, Fitch Solutions, London.

Joao joins Fitch Solutions from Dexia Group, where he spent eight years working in their Risk Management and Treasury divisions in a variety of positions, most recently as head of Credit Quant in Treasury and Financial Markets.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Recorded Webinar: How to organise, integrate and structure data for successful AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being rolled out across financial institutions, being put to work in applications that are transforming everything from back-office data management to front-office trading platforms. The potential for AI to bring further cost-savings and operational gains are limited only by the imaginations of individual organisations. What they all require to achieve...

BLOG

Why your Technology Spend isn’t Delivering the Productivity you Expected

By Gareth Evans, Chief Product Officer, FINBOURNE. An uncomfortable truth: technology spend in asset management has surged 8.9% annually over the past five years across North America and Europe. But productivity? Flat. Cost as a share of assets under management (AUM)? No improvement. Operational expenses in other functions? Despite the promises that technology would create...

EVENT

AI in Capital Markets Summit London

Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.

GUIDE

The Reference Data Utility Handbook

The potential of a reference data utility model has been discussed for many years, and while early implementations failed to gain traction, the model has now come of age as financial institutions look for new data management models that can solve the challenges of operational cost reduction, improved data quality and regulatory compliance. The multi-tenanted...