Kushal Rastogi

Knight FinTech is a new age banking technology company that provides full-stack banking tech solutions in the domain of Co-lending, Lending and Treasury. Knight FinTech leverages cutting edge technologies to simplify the complex banking problems using Cloud-first, API driven solutions. Knight FinTech's powerful suite of banking infrastructure solutions, coupled with flexible and secure middleware deeply integrates with legacy systems without displacing the existing systems, while bringing process efficiency, automation, and scalability at affordability. Knight FinTech's industry's Leading Co-lending Platform is being used by over 60% of large Banks & FIs. The solution helps manage end-to-end life cycle management in Co-lending where Banks and NBFCs or Banks and FinTechs, or NBFCs and FinTechs can do business together. The platform covers entire spectrum of activities from origination to underwriting, sanction, disbursement, as well as loan management like collection, escrow handling, settlements, restructuring, customer servicing etc. The solution is also well suited for standalone lending for NBFCs / Banks. Knight FinTech's Treasury Management platform helps banks, corporate and start-ups manage day-to-day treasury operations efficiently. The solution helps banks in end-to-end investments life cycle, decision making in their SLR / Non-SLR investments as well as Asset Liability Management (ALM), backed by deep data science backed models. Our Corporate Treasury Management Solution provides corporate and SMEs in a much needed working capital management solution that covers key areas like Liquidity Management, Inventory Management, Forex and Commodity Hedging etc. The solution also helps in managing end-to-end life cycle of liabilities with intelligent insights. Together over 85 Financial Institutions (including 15 large FIs) trust Knight FinTech platform and over 45,000 Cr. assets are managed through its platforms.

QuantMagnum Technologies is a young and fast growing - product based - FinTech startup with clientele across geographies like Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, US and India. The company provides technology products for fund managers at hedge funds, family offices, proprietary trading desks and financial brokers. The company has built a state-of-art platform covering full life-cycle of algorithmic trading – from quantitative research and idea generation to strategy development, from data management to systematic portfolio management, risk management and automated trading. The company also offers proprietary quant models which are optimized for risk adjusted returns and target uncorrelated alpha from markets. We have designed proprietary quantitative models for various assets across Equities, Commodities, Currencies, Bonds and Interest Rates traded on major exchanges in US, Europe and India.

Kushal has worked as a Financial Engineer with a market leader in UCITS compliant hedge funds and fund of funds, with daily liquidity and investable Alternative indices. Responsibilities included: Building quantitative tools, employing mathematical, financial, statistical and computer modeling skills to support pricing, hedging, trading and portfolio management decisions Building pricing models and trading strategies for various instruments Verifying the suitability of model in various market conditions in regular / stressed environment

Worked with an Alternative Asset Management company - Empire Capital (a Proprietary fund), as an Analyst. Was directly reporting to the fund manager with AUM of ~$90mn shared between fund's principals and ultra HNI investors. Was responsible for assisting fund manager in identifying potential investment opportunities with strong fundamentals - considering sound business model, favorable business economics and strong earnings momentum at an appropriate time - based on valuation, margin of safety and technicals Was also responsible for working on and improving the firm's proprietary stock screener which uses both technical and fundamental matrices to rate universe of 2000+ stocks