Tom Espel
Quantitative Trader (Currencies, Precious Metals)
Singapore
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Top SchoolTom Espel is a quantitative trader specializing in currencies and precious metals with eight years' experience building and running strategies across frontier markets from London to Hong Kong and now based in Singapore. He combines mathematics, economics and computer science to price and trade assets where data is sparse, liquidity is fragmented and macro events dominate, developing both medium/low-frequency FX alphas and high-frequency pricing for Asian NDFs. At leading investment banks he progressed from quantitative researcher to VP and now runs frontier-market strategies, with hands-on experience book-running eFX across developed, emerging and precious metals markets. He has also contributed to academic and industry discourse—guest lecturing on how classical financial theory adapts when standard assumptions break down—and published work from an earlier blockchain internship at the Banque de France. Notably comfortable turning limited, noisy data into executable models, he blends research rigor with production trading instincts.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Ingénieur Supélec Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MEng Ingénieur Supélec Electrical and Electronics Engineering at CentraleSupélecMSc in Mathematics and Finance Mathematics and Computer Science, MSc in Mathematics and Finance Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College LondonBSc in Economics Economics, BSc in Economics Economics at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL
French, English, German, Chinese, JapaneseGithub contributions (2)
tjespel/discretization-cir-processes
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 20 pushes in 25 days
tjespel/barrier-and-look-back-options
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 26 pushes in 7 days
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