Kurt Dew Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Consultant, Financial Institutions

Greater Boston Area

My primary interest is financial market structure. I write about market platforms, index instruments, and exchange management firms primarily. I was a member of the team that introduced index trading at the CME. Later, I pioneered the secondary market trading of OTC interest rate swaps.

Teaching various courses in banking and risk management. Research in financial innovation, microfoundations of trading.

Wolfson Campus, Miami

Teaching math, including business calculus, trig, algebra, business statistics

Miami, FL

taught College Algebra and Business Statistics

Afghanistan

Gather and analyze economic information for use by the US Army.

Economic policy advice in support of Iraqi development.

Contributed articles to their series of papers.

Convenor, finance seminars; research on issues in bank regulation and innovation; convenor, courses in Global Banking, Bank Credit Risk Management.

Faculty development. Deliver seminars to students and faculty. Keynote Speaker: Central Bank of India Conference on Bank Risk Management

Organized and developed finance area of Işık’s School of Management Sciences. Taught core finance courses and electives in Bank Management, Investments and International Financial Markets. Taught executive MBA and PhD. courses in Finance.

OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICSEstablished methodology for evaluating the quality of coursework offered at EMU, Applied them to various programs in the Faculty.

Coordinate and teach core required Corporate Finance, graduate and undergraduate; Teach Financial Institutions Management and International Financial Markets, undergraduate electives; teach Financial Institutions Management, and International Financial Markets graduate electives.Chairman, Standards Committee of Faculty of Business and Economics.

PROJECT CO-MANAGER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK - SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. Managed the CUNY team in a project to upgrade the curriculums of the two schools.

Shanghai, China

Managed the CUNY team in a project of the two schools to offer new coursework to local nationals hired by foreign firms.

CUNY-COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND. Taught two sections of Introduction to Managerial Finance.

TREASURY, ESTABLISHED ASSET-LIABILITY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION OF THE BANK IN THE UNITED STATES. ORGANIZED AND MANAGED SWAP TRADING DESK. ESTABLISHED THE TREASURY SALES FUNCTION. CREDIT AGRICOLE WAS THEN THE SECOND LARGEST FRENCH BANK AND THE TWELFTH LARGEST BANK WORLDWIDE.

NEW MARKET DEVELOPMENT, COMMODITIES EXCHANGE INC. (COMEX). DESIGNED NEW FUTURES CONTRACTS IN REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS AND INTEREST RATE SWAPS, AND PREPARED REGULATORY SUBMISSIONS TO APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. COMEX WAS A SUCCESSOR EXCHANGE TO THE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE.

Member, Interest Rate Futures Committee, Equity Index Committee,Financial Instruments Advisory Committee, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Advise on risks associated with use of financial futures, development of new futures contracts.

New York, New York

Managed Manny Hanny's Futures Brokerage and the treasury's Interest Rate Swaps/Eurodollar Futures arbitrage operations

Established, gained regulatory approval for, and managed a de novo futures brokerage subsidiary for Manufacturers Hanover Trust * one of the first bank futures subsidiaries.

Designed strategies for reducing funding costs by creating "synthetic" bank liabilities from Eurodollar futures. Developed the concept of the "Effective Gap", an Asset-Liability Management tool for banks.Clients included Harris Trust, Manufacturers Hanover, First Interstate, Security Pacific.

Wrote Contracts and Economic Justification for Eurodollar and Standard and Poors Futures contracts.Provided key testimony in July 1980 CFTC injunction against CME's right to list new contracts. The court found in favor of CME.

BUSINESS. Taught the Kellogg School's course in financial futures.

San Francisco Bay Area

Wrote articles analyzing public and private benefits of new financial instruments, trading strategies, and markets. Advised the President of the Bank on monetary policy alternatives and their effects on the economy.

Gold Policy, The Thirties and the Seventies; PUBLICATIONS IN THE AMERICAN BANKER:Bank Use of Gold Futures; March 11, 1981A Comparison of Treasury Bill Futures with Treasury Bond Spreads; April 17, 1981Using the Asset-Liability Gap as a Measure of Bank Interest Rate Risk; June 10, 1981Comment on Bank Involvement in Futures Markets; August 31, 1981Procedures.

Phd, Economics, 3.6

Ms, Mathematics, 3.6

Ba, Mathematics, 3.0

Activities and Societies: Soccer TeamHonors, Mathematics