Business at azone capital
Corporate and Investment Banking
Our Corporate and Investment banking practice benefits from the team’s extensive international network of contacts, up-to-date market intelligence and in-depth sector knowledge. We have in more than one case assisted major organizations with substantial business build-outs. In all instances these value-added hires had a global footprint and enabled our clients to achieve their strategic objectives within the annual business cycle.
Specific areas of coverage include:
Front Office
Our success is due to our detailed market knowledge which comes from a team of ex-financial industry professionals. We're also assisted by our bespoke search and select techniques and our unique database which contains Quantitative Analysts, Sales People & Brokers, Structurers & Modelers and Traders.
We understand the importance of the front office to the success of financial institutions and therefore have a detailed focus on market trends and movements ensuring a complete and accurate service, matching front office professionals with client requirements.
Sales and Brokerage
Our Sales and Brokerage expertise covers the follow markets:
We understand the importance of Sales and Brokerage to the success of financial institutions and therefore have a detailed focus on market trends and movements ensuring a complete and accurate service, matching Sales People and Brokers with client requirements.
Structuring and Modeling
Our Structurers and Modelers are hands-on candidates with the expertise to bring into fruition new ideas from both innovative Traders and the Sales team. They effectively develop models from product approval and assess new trades ensure the deal can be priced managed and monitored diligently as part of the asset portfolio.
Candidates are professionals in providing solutions to new customer mandates by structuring new transactions and developing model structures that fulfil the ongoing monitoring requirement from inception to execution across all asset classes. We recognize the challenges faced by our clients in a market where the effective execution of new trades can only be effected with an expert front office structuring and modeling team.
Our Structurers and Modelers operate in the following markets and products
Trading
Our trading expertise covers the follow markets:
Our coverage includes exotic derivatives, portfolio management, market making and execution trading.
We understand the importance of trading to the success of financial institutions and therefore have a detailed focus on market trends and movements ensuring a complete and accurate service, matching Traders with client requirements.
Quantitative Analysis
We understand the importance of analytical excellence to financial institutions covering Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers and Corporate Treasuries in the USA, Europe, and the Asia Pacific.
Our quantitative expertise covers the follow markets:
We are fully equipped to recognize recent developments, market trends and the subsequent challenges this presents to both clients and candidates. We have a proven track record in successfully pairing client requirements and Quantitative Analysts within the following sectors.
Our success is also due to our internal database which enables us to supply only those with the appropriate experience to the level of position being resourced. Our candidates always possess the relevant quantitative strategies, product knowledge, IT skills and an appropriate academic accreditation, usually PhD or MSc in a relevant quantitative discipline and have the appropriate for the role sought.
Quantitative Development
We realize that state-of-the-art quantitative development is crucial to enable niche trading strategies and systems to be brought into effect. We supply Quantitative Developers to the financial markets covering Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers and Corporate Treasuries in USA, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
Quantitative Developers will liaise directly with front and middle office in order to maintain and create pricing libraries and risk management strategies. Candidates will have solid programming experience in either one of the major third-party software packages or bespoke information technology systems and have been educated to PhD/MSc level from top tier universities in a quantitative subject.
Our Quantitative Development expertise covers Treasury, Fixed Income, Equity, Interest Rate, Credit and Commodities markets in the following fields of expertise:
Quantitative Research
Although Investment Banks and Hedge Funds remain the biggest users and innovators in quantitative finance research, other financial sectors such as Commercial Banking, Insurance and Fund Management are now interested in our candidate database.
Our quantitative research analysts develop the information and data infrastructure to enhance management reporting, real-time online information systems, and front office data feeds crucial to the trend towards automatic electronic trading in many core markets.
In addition our candidates embrace statistical and economic research and address the needs of our clients to develop in-house bespoke quantitative methodologies to provide an independent and accurate timely perspective opinion on market and risks.
We assist with all levels and types of Quantitative Analyst positions for clients such as Investment Banks, Trading Houses, Investment Houses, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers and Corporate Treasuries based in the UK, Europe, Americas and the Asia Pacific.
Quantitative Risk Management
We understand the importance of Quantitative Risk Analysis to the success of financial institutions and therefore have a detailed focus on market trends and movements ensuring a complete and accurate recruitment service, matching Quantitative Risk Analysts with client requirements.
We are assisted by our search and select techniques and our unique database which contains Quantitative Risk Analysts with expert knowledge and experience models such as :
Our success is also due to are internal database which enables us to supply only those with the appropriate experience to the level of position being resourced. Our candidates always possess the relevant quantitative strategies, product knowledge, IT skills and an appropriate academic accreditation, usually PhD or MSc in a relevant quantitative discipline and have the appropriate for the role sought.
Quantitative Trading
We understand the importance of Quantitative Traders to the success of financial institutions and therefore have a specific focus on quantitative trading ensuring an accurate recruitment service matching client requirements with successful Quantitative Traders.
Our proven success is due to our detailed market knowledge which comes from a team of financial industry professionals. This market knowledge coupled with our bespoke search and selection techniques ensures our database contains Quantitative Traders with strong information technology skills required to develop complex mathematical models needed by the market.
Our coverage ranges from Long/Short equity strategies through to ultra high frequency trading, encompassing algorithmic trading, systematic trading and black box models.
We understand the highly technical nature of these systems, Quantitative Trading candidates typically coming from a very strong development and research background.
Risk and Regulation
Our company supports the needs of client and applicant within the Risk and Regulation world of investment banking, corporate treasury and hedge fund industries. With the deregulation and globalization of financial services firms and the growing sophistication of financial technology investment activities are becoming more diverse and complex requiring more detailed regulation. Our success in connecting the right elements is due to the use of our established database of professionals and the use of the latest bespoke recruitment systems by ex-Financial Market consultants. This combination results in a prompt and accurate service to client and applicant. Our expertise covers all areas of Risk and Regulation including:
Market Risk
Traditionally measured using Value at Risk (VaR) methodology, Market Risk is the value of an investment will decrease due to changes with market factors. The four standard market risk factors are: Equity Risk, Interest Rate Risk, Currency Risk and Commodity Risk.
Credit Risk
Risk due to uncertainty in a counterparty's (also called an obligor's or credit's) ability to meet it's obligations.
Operational Risk
The risk of loss, resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems, or from external events. We have found a constant requirement for professionals with expertise in the following regulatory compliance:
Credit Ratings
Azone Capital provides a specialized financial recruitment service for corporate treasuries, government organizations, asset managers and financial institutions. With the recent increase in regulatory change there has been a significant increase in the need for professionals with experience of Credit Ratings.
Our proven success is due to our detailed market knowledge which comes from a team of financial industry professionals. This market knowledge coupled with our bespoke search and selection techniques ensures our database contains Quantitative Traders with strong information technology skills required to develop complex mathematical models needed by the market.
Our coverage ranges from Long/Short equity strategies through to ultra high frequency trading, encompassing algorithmic trading, systematic trading and black box models.
Back Office
We assist with all levels and types of financial back office positions for clients such as Investment Banks, Trading Houses, Investment Houses, Hedge Funds, Asset Managers and Corporate Treasuries in global regions including USA, Europe, and Asia Pacific. We fully recognize the need for efficient, knowledgeable personnel in this key operating area within a banks operations. Recruit Associates supply personnel in each of the key operating areas with the relevant systems knowledge.
Our expertise covers all back office requirements such as :
