Kushal Rastogi

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder and CEO of Knight FinTech
Expert in quantitative finance and algorithmic trading
Led teams to develop innovative banking solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader with expertise in quantitative finance and banking technology.

Contact

kushal.rastogi@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Financial EngineeringQuantitative AnalyticsSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmic TradingQuantitative AnalysisFinancial AnalysisValuation

Other Skills

API integrationAlternative InvestmentsAsset Liability ManagementAsset ManagementAutomated tradingBloomberg TerminalC#Cloud-first solutionsData ManagementData science modelsDerivativesElectronic Trading SystemsEquity Capital MarketsFinancial ModelingFutures Trading

About

Kushal is a Serial Entrepreneur and an IIT Graduate (B.Tech, M.Tech) with ~17 years of professional experience in technology, finance and engineering. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). Kushal is the Founder and CEO of Knight FinTech, and is leading his team of 350+ Knights, working towards the vision of building state-of-art banking infrastructure that helps connecting Banks with NBFCs & FinTechs, which in-turn, aids efficiency and profitability of Financial institutions, while promoting financial inclusion and economic empowerment of the masses. Knight FinTech's software infrastructure empowers digital transformation of Banks, NBFCs and other Financial Institutions across use cases of Co-lending, Lending and Treasury. The systems help making scientific and data backed decisions by leveraging quantitative and AI techniques across assets and liabilities of an institution. Prior to Knight FinTech, Kushal Co-founded QuantMagnum Technologies, that helped mid-sized portfolio managers in managing their investment / trading book, leveraging his extensive experience in building sophisticated quantitative systems and quantitative strategies, including Artificial Intelligence/Machine learning, which are asset class and market agnostic. He has successfully managed Multi-Asset Multi-Currency global portfolio across Equities, Commodities, Interest Rates, Bonds and Currencies in 100+ global futures markets at a leading European hedge fund.

Experience

Knight fintech

Founder and CEO

Jun 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 9 mos · India, Singapore

Knight FinTech is a new age banking technology company that provides full-stack banking tech solutions in the domain of Co-lending, Lending and Treasury.
Knight FinTech leverages cutting edge technologies to simplify the complex banking problems using Cloud-first, API driven solutions. Knight FinTech's powerful suite of banking infrastructure solutions, coupled with flexible and secure middleware deeply integrates with legacy systems without displacing the existing systems, while bringing process efficiency, automation, and scalability at affordability.
Knight FinTech's industry's Leading Co-lending Platform is being used by over 60% of large Banks & FIs. The solution helps manage end-to-end life cycle management in Co-lending where Banks and NBFCs or Banks and FinTechs, or NBFCs and FinTechs can do business together. The platform covers entire spectrum of activities from origination to underwriting, sanction, disbursement, as well as loan management like collection, escrow handling, settlements, restructuring, customer servicing etc. The solution is also well suited for standalone lending for NBFCs / Banks.
Knight FinTech's Treasury Management platform helps banks, corporate and start-ups manage day-to-day treasury operations efficiently. The solution helps banks in end-to-end investments life cycle, decision making in their SLR / Non-SLR investments as well as Asset Liability Management (ALM), backed by deep data science backed models. Our Corporate Treasury Management Solution provides corporate and SMEs in a much needed working capital management solution that covers key areas like Liquidity Management, Inventory Management, Forex and Commodity Hedging etc. The solution also helps in managing end-to-end life cycle of liabilities with intelligent insights.
Together over 85 Financial Institutions (including 15 large FIs) trust Knight FinTech platform and over 45,000 Cr. assets are managed through its platforms.

Quantitative AnalyticsFinancial ModelingAlternative InvestmentsStatistical ModelingRisk ManagementAsset Management+2

Quantmagnum technologies pvt. ltd.

Founder and CEO

Jan 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, India

QuantMagnum Technologies is a young and fast growing - product based - FinTech startup with clientele across geographies like Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe, US and India. The company provides technology products for fund managers at hedge funds, family offices, proprietary trading desks and financial brokers.
The company has built a state-of-art platform covering full life-cycle of algorithmic trading – from quantitative research and idea generation to strategy development, from data management to systematic portfolio management, risk management and automated trading. The company also offers proprietary quant models which are optimized for risk adjusted returns and target uncorrelated alpha from markets. We have designed proprietary quantitative models for various assets across Equities, Commodities, Currencies, Bonds and Interest Rates traded on major exchanges in US, Europe and India.

Quantitative AnalyticsAlgorithmic TradingRisk ManagementData Management

Hedge fund, austria

Financial Engineer, Quant

Jan 2011 – Aug 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Austria

Kushal has worked as a Financial Engineer with a market leader in UCITS compliant hedge funds and fund of funds, with daily liquidity and investable Alternative indices.
Responsibilities included:
Building quantitative tools, employing mathematical, financial, statistical and computer modeling skills to support pricing, hedging, trading and portfolio management decisions
Building pricing models and trading strategies for various instruments
Verifying the suitability of model in various market conditions in regular / stressed environment

Quantitative AnalysisFinancial ModelingStatistical ModelingFinancial Engineering

Empire capital

Financial Analyst

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

Worked with an Alternative Asset Management company - Empire Capital (a Proprietary fund), as an Analyst. Was directly reporting to the fund manager with AUM of ~$90mn shared between fund's principals and ultra HNI investors.
Was responsible for assisting fund manager in identifying potential investment opportunities with strong fundamentals - considering sound business model, favorable business economics and strong earnings momentum at an appropriate time - based on valuation, margin of safety and technicals
Was also responsible for working on and improving the firm's proprietary stock screener which uses both technical and fundamental matrices to rate universe of 2000+ stocks

Financial AnalysisValuationTechnical Analysis