Oluwasegun Bewaji
As Senior Economist at Payments Canada, Oluwasegun has conducted a wide range of research developing quantitative and forecast models that advise Canada’s payment Modernization initiative and Payments Canada’s corporate funding model. He has also developed market microstructure models of financial market infrastructures and is collaborating externally in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning within payments. In his role, ‘Segun is the subject matter expert on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and digital/cryptocurrencies, having participated in Payments Canada’s Project Jasper, as well as representing Payments Canada at the Blockchain for Finance Conference. With a strong financial markets background, ‘Segun has worked in the Corporate Trust and technology functions related to securitization, structured finance, and supporting over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives origination and trading at HSBC and the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo). ‘Segun has a Ph.D. in Computational Finance from the Center for Computational Finance and Economics Agents (University of Essex) specializing in the market microstructure of financial market regulation under the Basel Accords. His research interests include Financial Network Analyses, Agent-based Computational Economics, Quantum Economics, machine learning and computational intelligence in finance and economics.
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Articles by Oluwasegun Bewaji
An econometric investigation on the stability of stablecoins: are these coins stable or is their stability just a flip of the coin?
The authors investigate the volatility dynamics of US-dollar-backed stablecoins, challenging the assumption of inherent stability using a multilevel econometric framework.
Are cryptocurrencies cryptic or a source of arbitrage? A genetic algorithm approach
The authors identify triangular arbitrage trading opportunities through genetic algorithms in order to find insights into the volatility of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins with the largest market cap.
Procyclicality and risk-based access: valuing the embedded credit default swap of employing bilateral credit limits in financial market infrastructures
In light of institutional knowledge, this paper presents the similarities between the survivor-pay component (Tranche 2) of the Canadian large-value transfer system (LVTS) and credit default swap (CDS) contracts.