Alexander Lipton
Alexander Lipton is global head, research & development at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, professor of practice at Khalifa University, visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Connection Science Fellow at MIT, and advisory board member at ADIA Lab. Alex is a co-founder of Sila, a company providing digital wallet & ACH payment services, and an advisory board member at several fintech companies worldwide. From 2006–2016, Alex was co-head of the global quantitative group and quantitative solutions executive at Bank of America. Earlier, he was a senior manager at Citadel, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. In addition, Alex held visiting professorships at EPFL, NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and the University of Illinois. Before becoming a quant, Alex was a full professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois and a consultant at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1984 Alex received the Best Young Geophysicist Award from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Risk Magazine awarded him the Inaugural Quant of the Year Award in 2000 and the Buy-side Quant of the Year Award in 2021. Alex authored/edited twelve books and over a hundred scientific papers on nuclear fusion, astrophysics, applied mathematics, financial engineering, and distributed ledgers. Currently, Alex is an associate editor of several journals covering quantitative finance. He frequently gives keynote presentations on quantitative finance and FinTech at conferences and forums worldwide. Alex published several general interest articles in such publications as Scientific American, Barron’s, the Hill, and others. In addition, he is an avid collector and researcher of military optics.
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Articles by Alexander Lipton
Automated market-making for fiat currencies
A framework to exchange fiat currencies on-chain consistently with off-chain prices is presented
A closed-form solution for optimal mean-reverting strategies
The heat potentials method is used to find the optimal profit-taking and stop-loss levels
Don’t fear the clearer
Wider use of CCPs not systemic threat – but participants do face hard-to-measure risks
Can quants defuse the pension time bomb?
Alex Lipton argues new quantitative methods are needed to solve the looming pension crisis
The decline of the cash empire
Alex Lipton: the last line of defence between us and punitive negative rates is paper currency
Blockchain: a solution looking for a problem
While new financial technologies show considerable promise, many proposed applications are either naive or miss the mark outright
Macroeconomic theories: not even wrong
Flawed and inconsistent mainstream macroeconomic theories such as efficient market hypothesis are dangerous to society, says Alexander Lipton
Banks must embrace their digital destiny
Alexander Lipton believes the time is right for advanced digital banks to take the industry forward, and quants can lead the charge
On derivatives and quants
Alexander Lipton on how the role of quants is adapting to the new financial environment