During covid the technology evolved to facilate remote working. This happened in mutual trust between employees and employers. High skilled people recentered their life on what matters.
Digital relationships did not only become the way to reach them.
Time keeps on being saved.
No need to relocate between projects, increasing the availability of the right person.
Wage can be adjusted to the local cost of life, generating mutual gains.
Whole cost strucutres that did not actually profit to the clients are not necessary anymore.
Last but not least, everyone can customize his/her workplace.
Discover our solution...
Added value
Quant Castle is made up of a series of partners supervising the work delivered by quantitative experts.
The partners are PhD in data science, former bank traders, invited professors, C-members of listed companies, engineers, mathematicians and certified actuaries. All have more than 10 years of experience in quantitative developments in relationship with business and technical activities. Their role is to find quantitative assignments for quantitative experts, assure the quality of the deliverables and share knowledge plus tips with their fellows. They all lived in different countries than their originating countries and ever worked full-time remote from abroad. They are motivated by sharing their passion.
The quantitative experts are enthusiastic talents that are passionate about advancing society, creating models, programming the machine, learning what made our present and communicating the result of their work in user-friendly ways. They want to find assignments matching their interests and benefit from a mutli-cultural circle who considers them as fellows.
Quant Castle's LED methodology
The duties of Quant Castle towards its business partners.
Learn
Or listen. Companies and individuals manage their activies following their own experience, rules, house view, strategy, history, technologies... The Quant Castle consultants learn about their specific contexts.
Enrich
Likewise, the Quant Castle consultant comes with a background from university, past experiences, travels, relationships, knowledge of the world... successes and failures. Together for a new page.
Deliver
The ultimate goal of the Quant Castle consultant is to deliver, within budget and deadlines. This include advise, validation, documentation, studies, technological changes, knowledge transfer.
Commercial benefits
- Competitive advantage
- Invoices issued in your country
- Same working hours as yours
- Provides experts in your field
- Professional internet connection
- Secure file exchange
- English language communication
- Scalable outsourcing
Collaborator benefits
- Working for leading companies
- Enthusiastic and motivated team
- Selected assignments
- Coaching by business experts
- Training materials
- Attractive salary
- Social benefits
- Great location (One Ayala for Manila)
Addressing your business challenges
Quant Castle works with experts knowing the structure of international companies, the fundamental principles of accountancy, the risks related to the business activities and the specific areas where models are used.
Quant Castle consultants have transversal skills, however affinities exist.
Airlines
Airlines accumulate big datasets about their flights, passengers, competition, regulatory obligations. These must be available real-time for pricing, booking, reporting. SAS, the Statistical Analysis System, is well established in that field. Quant Castle provides consultants that are SAS and modelling specialists.
Banks
Banks are consumers of quantitative methodologies. On the one hand, pricing and risk management to perform on the markets. On the other hand, to comply with the regulations gradually introduced over time. Quant Castle provides consultants that are familiar with both banking and trading businesses, in particular for Model Development, Model Validation.
Biotechs
Biotechs must elaborate their products, vaccines and medicines, following specific procedures in terms of clinical trials. The regulators require to provide all the calculation details.m SAS, the Statistical Analysis System, has pre-approved internal routines and is the usual choice. Quant Castle provides consultants that are SAS and biostatistics specialists.
Data Science
Know the behavior of your company, business partners, customers. Invest in the promising directions. Manage your risks including historical analyzes, dependencies between the involved markets, potential impact of extreme events. Enhance your services with modern technologies. Rely on Quant Castle.
Finance
Beyond banks and insurances, all the companies maintain a balance sheet. These serve, amongst others, to generate the business projections, to steer the company. Projective models are involved, taking into account the company and its environment. Quant Castle provides you with finance specialists.
Healthcare
Mathematical models are used extensively in the health sciences, including medical imaging, public health and psychology. Nowadays the role of machine learning increased, to detect or address pathologies. Collaborate with Quant Castle.
Insurances
Insurances not only collect money, they have to disburse the exercised clauses of their contracts. How much to keep as reserves to run safely is assessed by quantitative methodologies. The result depends on the client profile, the assured item, the environment and the economic outlook. Quant Castle provides advanced statistical skills to deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty.
Risk Management
Risk Management has two components. Both involve quantitative models, where Quant Castle is expert. Operational risk is, for instance, being vicitm of a flaw in the software, having too many employees sick. Financial risk covers Credit Risk (not being paid), Market Risk (adverse market movements) and Capital Risk (survive in stress periods)
Statistics
Want to know the relationships between your observations? Isolate explaining factors? Elaborate worst-case and best case scenrios? Find the right interpretation? Draw conclusions? Adjust your strategy? Ask Quant Castle.
Treasury
All the corporates must fund their activities, pay interests on their debt, remunerate their shareholders, manage their liquity and solvency. In that respect they don't differ from banks. Models are used at every step to ensure profitability. Partner with Quant Castle to manage your treasury.
Quant Castle delivers, amongst others, in the following languages.
Our quality examples.
Actico
Your business rules
- Visual logic
- Predicitive typing
- Popular for credit engines
We help
- Time required to code
- Limited documentation
- Tool specific complexity
C++
State of the Art
- Best reaction times
- No cumberstones libraries
- Native machine executables
We help
- Own libraries to write
- Voluminous code
- Efforts required
Java
Mutli-platform
- Simplified C++
- Execution speed
- Cross-platform
We help
- Memory management
- Calculation librairies
- Heavy programming frameworks
Jupyter Notebooks
For R and Python
- Communication style
- Easy looking into the variables
- Easy to share
We help
- Not programatically callable
- Kernels difficult to install
- Limited developing environment
Matlab
Matlab
Straight to the point
- Built-in functions
- Validated linear mixed models
- Thinks like mathematicians
We help
- Gets replaced by free tools
- Difficult to run as a service
- Slows down on large datasets
Python
Fast, free, complete
- Libraries readily available
- Simple syntax, easy to inspect
- Large community
We help
- Different librairies, different results
- Non-optimized imported librairies
- Limited performance on big data
R
Scientific perfection
- Well established language
- Validated linear mixed models
- Coverage of scientific papers
We help
- Syntax not always intuitive
- Packages not always documented
- Not easy to interface
SAS
Your power to know
- Designed for large datasets
- Validated linear mixed models
- Pre-approved by FDA and EMA
We help
- Difficult syntax
- Small community
- No advanced SQL
SQL
Interact with your data
- Historical standard
- Largely optimizated
- Relieves the main app
We help
- Slow in/out transfers
- Language depends on the DB
- Tendency to write big queries
VBA
Excel simplicity
- Interacts with Excel
- Automates daily routines
- Macro recording
We help
- No source control
- Novtesting framework
- Excel cell references
Concerned about aspects of remote working? These are naturally adressed thanks to the technologies, awareness and professionalism.
Certified
Our staff successfuly took Qualified.io programming assessments. The SAS consultants are certified by the SAS Institute.
Impeccable
Our staff make use of fast, stable and secure internet such as landlines and unlimited 5G full speed (gigabit up and down).
Compliant
Our staff leave your data on your servers. They comply with the applicable internal policies and external regulations.
Quant Castle Limited operates worldwide.
Remote
- Adjusted working hours
- Save employee costs
- Save commuting time
- Save hardware costs
Hybrid
- 2-3 days in the office
- From home if sick
- Flex desk required
- Hardware required
On site
- 4-5 days in the office
- From home if sick
- Fixed desk required
- Hardware required
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Thomas Meinguet
PhD in Statistics, 10-year+ of modelling in the aforementioned areas, international career, former invited professor at UCLouvain.
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Hi Anna! Looking forward. |
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| The main project is offshoring quantitative activities to Manila in the Philippines: modelling, validation and running the models. | |
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Why do you think it will be a success? | |
| Number of activities worldwide are already outsourced to Philippines, such as software development, technical support, data entry, business assistants. With the right people, quantitative modelling is not so different. | |
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Is it a new concept? | |
| In the quantitative areas, rather yes. There are engineers, mathematicians and physicists, people with a PhD. With the coaching that we provide in Manila they can run the same activities here. | |
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Are you already present in Manila? | |
| Yes we do have a presence in Manila with 3 floors at One Ayala, the most recent building in the posh neighborhood of Makati. | |
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What would be the obstacles? | |
| Rest assured we have the same working hours as our business partners with EU shift and US shift, a stable internet connection and everyone speaks perfect English. | |
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People usually want to stay in control. | |
| Of course they are, we work for them. | |
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Thanks Thomas! | |
| You're most welcome! | |
Quant Castle has a strong policy against CO2 emissions. We take the public transports and compensate our emissions when travelling long distances. We participate to the hour for the planet. As part of our ongoing dedication to social responsibility, our team recently contributed goods and financial support to an orphan in Manila.
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