Hector Velazquez's Contact Details

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Hanweck Associates, LLC

New York, NY, US • 16 Employees
Financial Services

Hanweck is the leading provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets focusing on the large-scale risk problems of banks, broker/dealers, hedge funds, central counterparties, and exchanges — where the number of instruments and positions number in the millions. Hanweck delivers risk analytics as a real-time service in flexible ways, from feeds to APIs, that dramatically simplify integration with customers'​ risk architecture. Founded in 2003, Hanweck expanded from consulting into product development in 2006. Hanweck was a first mover and remains the industry leader in applying graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware accelerated computing to the equity derivatives market. The firm has created a range of data products and custom integrated solutions that build upon this expertise. Hanweck also delivers risk measurement solutions and consulting across a range of asset classes including fixed income products and derivatives. Hanweck works with partners and clients to help them meet challenges of computational intensity in finance and related disciplines, including managing the large data sets often associated with these problems. Hanweck deploys highly reliable and robust services and is strongly focused on providing clients with first-rate service and assistance. Hanweck’s professionals have considerable depth in technology, and experience from some of the world’s leading financial institutions across a range of disciplines that include quantitative research and modeling, trading and market making, and risk management. Hanweck’s institutional investors include NASDAQ and Argentum, a New York-based private equity firm.