Simon Cullen Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Head of Compliance• Regulatory and business structuringFocused on structuring and launching fintech businesses within regulatory and commercial constraints. Specialist in B2C retail brokerages from UI through to back end infrastructure. Advising on legal structure, financial modelling and business process design. Closely involved in over 50 fintech projects from inception to launch and beyond. Awarded a patent for use of AI in financial services.

London, United Kingdom

• Senior manager for a multi-billion€ securitised portfolio with mandate extending to management of covered bonds on a RV basis,• Constructed a high level wind-down strategy for a portfolio of CMBS/RMBS based on guidelines (funding, capital, cost structure) set by statutory wind-down agency, FMS-Wertmanagement (FMS-WM),• Mandate for strong risk management both in terms of reduced vol and tails

London, United Kingdom

• Team head with responsibilities including credit risk and portfolio management for legacy structured products business line in Europe,• RMBS, CMBS, CDOs, CLOs.

London, United Kingdom

• Securitisation and structuring - covering public CMBS, balance sheet shaping and funding transactions,• Underwriting of commercial real estate risk,• Interest rate hedging.

Dublin, Ireland

• Market risk analysis focusing on credit and interest rate risk,• Itraxx tranches, bespoke CSOs, corporate bonds,• Model testing and calibration.

Mlitt, Economics

Thesis title: "Detecting Deviations From Normality In Truncated Populations"

Ba (Mod), Mathematics, First

Graduated with first class honours.

Education record

Awarded 6-year academic scholarship