Acadia hires Anduaga as Partner in its Quantitative Services team
20 January 2025 UK
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Acadia, a London Stock Exchange Group business providing risk management services, has appointed Xabier Anduaga as a partner in its Quantitative Services team.
Based in Acadia鈥檚 London office, Anduaga will report to Robert Kirchner, a partner at Quaternion, Acadia鈥檚 Quant Services division.
In his new role, he will be responsible for growing the firm鈥檚 quantitative consulting business in the UK, in line with market trends and regulatory changes, as well as acquiring new clients.
Acadia's Quantitative Services team aims to deliver comprehensive risk modelling, market risk analysis, and regulatory compliance consulting for financial services clients.
The firm believes that the addition of Anduaga will strengthen the team's expansion, enhancing its ability to deliver advanced tools and consultancy for risk analysis and financial resource management to a growing client base.
Anduaga brings more than 10 years of experience in traded risk modelling and model risk management for a range of global banking clients to his new role.
He joins from PwC where he most recently served as the director of traded risk analytics, helping to oversee internal model methods (IMM) and internal model approaches (IMA) for UK and US banks, including the development of benchmark models.
Prior to that, he spent nearly six years at CRISIL, a financial analytics company, as associate director.
Commenting on the appointment, Scott Sobolewski, co-head of Acadia Quantitative Services, says: 鈥淴abier has a proven track record, leading global quantitative risk and analytics teams and managing a high-value client base within the investment banking sector.
鈥淗is deep expertise in financial risk and compliance consulting will be instrumental in building out our quantitative services capabilities.鈥�
Anduaga adds: 鈥淚 look forward to working with the expert team to optimise our risk management capabilities and help clients navigate complex market challenges with confidence."
Based in Acadia鈥檚 London office, Anduaga will report to Robert Kirchner, a partner at Quaternion, Acadia鈥檚 Quant Services division.
In his new role, he will be responsible for growing the firm鈥檚 quantitative consulting business in the UK, in line with market trends and regulatory changes, as well as acquiring new clients.
Acadia's Quantitative Services team aims to deliver comprehensive risk modelling, market risk analysis, and regulatory compliance consulting for financial services clients.
The firm believes that the addition of Anduaga will strengthen the team's expansion, enhancing its ability to deliver advanced tools and consultancy for risk analysis and financial resource management to a growing client base.
Anduaga brings more than 10 years of experience in traded risk modelling and model risk management for a range of global banking clients to his new role.
He joins from PwC where he most recently served as the director of traded risk analytics, helping to oversee internal model methods (IMM) and internal model approaches (IMA) for UK and US banks, including the development of benchmark models.
Prior to that, he spent nearly six years at CRISIL, a financial analytics company, as associate director.
Commenting on the appointment, Scott Sobolewski, co-head of Acadia Quantitative Services, says: 鈥淴abier has a proven track record, leading global quantitative risk and analytics teams and managing a high-value client base within the investment banking sector.
鈥淗is deep expertise in financial risk and compliance consulting will be instrumental in building out our quantitative services capabilities.鈥�
Anduaga adds: 鈥淚 look forward to working with the expert team to optimise our risk management capabilities and help clients navigate complex market challenges with confidence."
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