Quantitative and IT consulting

Corporate, investment and retail banking

Specialists in Market and Credit risk, Distributed Computing, Machine Learning and Quantitative analysis.

Looking for specialized consulting skills in risk management and capital markets?

Established in 2013, Counterpoint Dynamics was conceived with an ambition to cultivate a consulting expertise that seamlessly integrates technological systems with business acumen. Leveraging our expertise in Software Architecture and Risk Management, we firmly believe that the efficacy of any pricing model is contingent upon the quality of the data it assimilates.

Our top-tier Quants, Developers, and Integration Engineers recognize the imperative synergy between IT and business, particularly in our current landscape characterized by stringent regulations and simulation-intensive scenarios.

Counterpoint Dynamics combines business, technology and quantitative knowledge in innovative ways to provide cutting edge solutions.

What we do

Quantitative Analysis and Development

  • Hedge effectiveness calculation
  • Derivative pricing libraries
  • XVA Optimisation
  • Model validation for market risk and front-office derivative pricing models, VaR and Expected Shortfall.

Financial Engineering/ Risk Analysis

  • Modelling of derivatives on risk and front-office software.
  • Implementation of FRTB, SIMM, VaR methodologies etc.
  • CVA, DVA, FVA and PFE calculation and validation.
  • Front Arena, Adaptiv Analytics, Murex, Matlab, IBM Algorithmics Riskwatch/ARA/ASE, SAS, Maitland.

Business Analysis and Software implementation

  • Feeds between source systems and risk systems for derivatives, market data, counterparty information and financial information.
  • Implementation of credit risk, market risk, prime broking, securitization and payments systems.
  • Trader specific user interfaces into standard front office systems

Software development and architecture
  • Full stack development using .Net, Javascript, Angular, SQL and Python.
  • Application Architecture.
  • Cross siloed business product development, enabling cross selling of retail banking clients with CIB type products
Machine Learning

  • Quantitative frameworks leveraging open-source components.
  • RC Scale self driving cars

Computational scaling
  • CUDA, GPU and Cloud based scaling.
  • Monte Carlo simulation.
LTIP

  • Long Term Incentive Planning
  • IFRS 2

WACC
  • Weighted Average Cost of Capital

Do you have a background/ degree in actuarial studies, engineering, maths, risk or software development? Interested in a diverse and dynamic career driven by Math and Specialist IT knowledge?

010 900 4620

Get in touch: careers@cpdynamics.co.za

Contact us!

Why choose us?

Many of South Africa's biggest banks choose to work with us. Our client list include the following enterprises.

Standard Bank

Investec

Nedbank

LibFin

RMB

ABSA

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010 900 4620

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