The Derivatives Technology Foundation

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Partner of All Options and Sfiss Financial Technology

TDTF is sponsored by All Options and Sfiss Financial Technology.

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visit http://www.tdtf.nl

About TDTF

Quote from http://www.tdtf.nl

The objective of The Derivatives Technology Foundation (TDTF) is to stimulate co-operation between academics and people who actually work with derivatives. TDTF's main activities are encouraging applied research and providing information about the actual trade in derivatives. There remains a considerable gap between how specialists in the academic and practical worlds think and communicate. This at a time when there is a growing need for people who are at home in both spheres, for the following reasons.

• A clear trend is discernible in the recruitment policy of marketmakers. They are specifically looking for academics with well-developed analytical skills and a model-based approach.
• The changing background of the average marketmaker means that the market has become more receptive to the use of "alternative" models. More and more research into such models is therefore being conducted within marketmaking organisations.
• As well as devising models, their implementation in practice is increasing in importance. After all, an ideal model which is not actually implemented has no value at all in everyday trading.

The young and talented people sponsored by the Foundation are being educated in both worlds. So they learn to communicate with both from the outset. Discussions between academics and practitioners result in projects and assignments being designed which are of value to all concerned. The eventual result is relevant from an academic perspective, whilst at the same time offering a solution to problems encountered in everyday practice. In other words, we sponsor applied research in the classic sense of the term.

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