Summary
Alex Chen is an accomplished risk and compliance leader with 17 years of experience spanning risk management, quantitative trading, portfolio management, and investment research. As SVP and Head of the Compliance Division at Nomura SITE since 2019, he combines deep expertise in market and counterparty credit risk with hands-on knowledge of FX, fixed income, and equity products. His background includes running portfolio strategies for a fund of hedge funds and developing proprietary quant strategies such as convertible bond arbitrage, pair trading, and volatility trades. Trained in computer science (NTU) and financial engineering (Columbia), he brings a rare mix of technical rigor and regulatory oversight, informed by research for institutional and high-net-worth investors. Based in Taipei, Alex is known for translating complex quantitative models into practical, auditable risk and compliance frameworks.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at National Taiwan University
MS, Financial Engineering, MS, Financial Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Chinese