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Kah Seng Karson Yong

Financial Engineer | Data Scientist | Investor

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+1 (929) 539 9586

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A Bit About Me

Experienced Derivatives and Currency Trader, Registered Derivatives Senior Associate, FinTech Capital Markets Fellow, an entrepreneur and investor with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in futures, options and currency market analysis, FinTech, blockchain technologies and advisory, quantitative analysis, C#, Python, Matlab, R, Julia programming languages, SQL database language, asset management, risk management, information technology, marketing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), deep learning and algorithmic trading.

Strong finance professional with a Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude focused in Finance and Investments from City University of New York - Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business and MSc in Quantitative Finance, First Class Honours at Smurfit Graduate School of Business, University College Dublin. Fluent in English, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Cantonese and Malay.

Work Experience

Feb 2022 - Present

Jan 2012 - Present

Jan 2020 - Present

May 2015 - Aug 2019

Working full-time as Investment Data and Quant Analyst at the asset management arm of one of the largest Italian banks. Create, maintain, and improve new and existing analytics to provide the FoF team quantitative views in the financial market. 

Develop proprietary quantitative trading strategies (ML-based) for algorithmically trading the futures market. Also, construct a risk management model providing a 99% confidence interval of the portfolio not losing more than 5% of its value on a given day. 

Co-founded a number of businesses: e-Commerce, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing & Trading, Digital Marketing

Futures & Options Associate advising clients in trading and hedging with derivatives and subsequently advising blockchain startups in seed funding. 

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