Andrea Pignataro’s ION Group borrowed billions of dollars from US private lender HPS Investment Partners in recent years to fuel an acquisition spree, adding a layer of expensive loans to the pile of publicly traded debt already weighing on the Italian tycoon’s financial technology (fintech) empire.
/PRNewswire/ Rapidan Energy Group has welcomed two new sales executives, Michael Muhlbach, and John Renfro, to support the firm s growing client base and.
Terry Benzschawel began his career in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in 1992. There he built models for proprietary trading in bonds, currencies and derivative securities in the fixed income arbitrage group. In 1998 he moved to Citigroup, becoming a quant and subsequently managing director on the bank’s credit trading desk. Terry left Citigroup after 21 years to start Benzschawel Scientific, a company specialising in algorithmic trading strategies, financial education and advanced model development. He has been a pioneer in neural network modelling, having built network models that detect fraud on credit card transactions (1992), pick mutual funds (1994) and trade US Treasury bonds (1998), as well as credit-picking robots (2004) and market-making models in high-yield bonds (2017). Terry received his BA (with distinction) from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 and a PhD in experimental psychology from Indiana University in 1980. He received a post-doctoral fellowship in o