Sophisticated Solutions
For Financial Analysis
Manakau provides bespoke solutions to the most challenging problems in financial analysis.
We combine deep understanding of current software tools, systems, and techniques; long-term and immersed understanding of the financial industry, including the most difficult and complex analytical problems; and an absolute commitment to fully understanding the highly complex needs of our clients.
Manakau is focused directly on the finance industry. Knowledge of our client’s specific business, financial and mathematical models, technologies to create compelling user experiences and state-of-the-art infrastructure is not enough: solutions that excel come only from combining all four:
Asset management
Risk management
Data analytics
Investment analysis
Asset pricing & scenario analysis
Process automation
Quantitative finance
Statistical analysis
Data science
Machine learning
Monte-Carlo simulations
Custom payoff languages
Risk optimization
Modern web user interfaces
Interactive data visualizations
Integrated desktop management
Real-time data and calculations
Versatile APIs
Excel & BI tool integration
Parallelization
Containerisation
Cloud servers & serverless
Automated infrastructure
Automated testing
Task orchestration
Performance optimization
The financial industry involves myriad challenges: deep underlying complexity, ever-evolving requirements, a profusion of data, critical "legacy" systems, relentless urgency, and an absolute requirement for accuracy. Manakau professionals have delivered solutions in this demanding and complex area many times before.
Some examples:
At a top-tier bank, the developed platform enabled all the MBS and ABS transactions to be structured and analyzed, encompassing a wide (and continually expanding) variety of collateral types. The platform featured a sophisticated proprietary language which modeled the waterfall of payments in securitizations.
Led the financial engineering initiative supporting structured credit trading at a top-tier bank, with team embedded on the trading desk. Created and implemented a wide variety of quantitative models and analysis tools to facilitate day-to-day trading decisions and risk management.
Enabled a New York hedge fund to trade electronically as a market maker across multiple exchanges. The software effected automated trading decisions, with real-time risk management and hedging, and could run completely unsupervised.
Automated “compression” of large books of IR derivatives by finding optimized equivalent positions between counterparties, preserving risk profile (within tolerances) and minimizing capital requirements.
Developed platform allowing quantitative decision-making and data management through the full life-cycle of aviation investments. The platform included sophisticated models for aircraft maintenance, financing structures and a wide variety of lease transactions; and sophisticated scenario analysis across an extraordinary variety of operational, market and transactional risk factors.
Levered large scale grid computing (100,000+ nodes) and complex models to enable on-demand analysis and decision-making on trading desks, and meet ongoing risk management demands from regulators, for mortgage and tailored lending products.
Manakau’s role is to meet your needs, which ordinarily means two approaches to the working relationship:
Manakau collaborates with existing software engineers, analytics experts, product managers, product designers, and other resources already within your organization. We become part of a hybrid team tailored to your requirements, providing top calibre engineers, quantitative analysts and project/product delivery experts to expand your existing capabilities and capacity.
Manakau works with your organization to identify, specify, develop, test, and deliver complete bespoke solutions, taking final responsibility for delivering a solution in fully tested, efficiently functioning form.
