d-fine
Focus underscores strength
With over 250 highly accomplished consultants based in Frankfurt, Munich, London and Hong Kong, d-fine is one of the leading providers of demanding quantitative and technical consulting projects in Europe. We are able to draw upon our pool of highly skilled and experienced people to provide solutions to mission-critical challenges faced by our clients.
Our consulting services encompass the following key areas:
- Front, middle and back office systems for any trading environment
- Risk management, and risk/return optimization
- Asset and liability management, portfolio management and capital allocation
- Corporate Treasury
- Management of commodity, energy, and foreign exchange risks for industrial corporations
- Risk management of R&D projects
Cooperation with global professional services firms and leading software providers enables us to find the right solution for our clients.
Our clients - banks, insurance companies, asset managers and industrial corporations - are faced with financial markets which are growing in complexity and risk. Interest rates, currencies, equity and commodity prices are changing on a scale and with a speed that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago. Credit ratings are less durable than they used to be: risks increase. On the other hand, customers in the information age are becoming ever more demanding and competition is becoming more aggressive. This puts enormous pressure on margins and results in decreasing earnings if the business model does not keep up with the pace of change.
Success under these conditions requires a renewed focus on the suitability of innovative financial products, efficient processes, high performance IT systems and the use of sophisticated mathematical models to quantify risk and optimize risk / return ratios.
Skills and experience translate into lasting solutions
Our consultants have a strong quantitative and technical skill set backed by a strong track record. They are typically recruited from top-percentile scientific, mathematical, IT or business backgrounds. For years this has enabled us to provide outstanding support to clients confronted with complex challenges.
The analytical background of our consultants, complemented by intensive training and the experience gained from hundreds of successfully delivered projects, enables us to provide our clients with effective advice:
- On every desired level of technical, mathematical or technological detail
- In all phases of a project from initial analysis and planning, conceptual design, IT implementation and testing, data migration, to production support and legacy system retirement
