Personal statement
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I have enjoyed a successful career in both academia and practice. My research interests revolve around financial technology, financial indices, and the regulation of capital markets. I have written a number of peer reviewed papers on index construction, fund management, emerging financial markets, distributed technologies and market regulation. I have also pioneered research into blockchain and its application in the Fintech ecosystem.
I am considered a leading academic in the field of "Fintech". I have spoken and chaired numerous conferences. I have also appeared in Bloomberg TV, CNBC and in the financial press. I have travelled extensively in my various professional roles to Emerging Markets. I have interacted with policy markets and regulators. I believe my work has real world impact.
The Department of Accounting and Finance, to which I am affiliated, is ranked "1st in the UK for Accounting and Finance" in the Complete University Guide Subject League Table for both 2016 and 2017. The department was ranked 2nd in the UK for Accounting and Finance by both the Times University Guide 2015 and the Sunday Times Guide 2015. Times Higher Educational awarded Strathclyde Business School with "The Business School of the Year 2016".
Teaching
I was the founder of the MSc in Financial Technology, the first such course in the United Kingdom. I teach Mean Variance Portfolio Construction, utilizing the skill-set acquired in my professional career as a fund manager.
The courses I teach combine both theory and practice. I integrate live data from into worked examples using the department's Bloomberg laboratory.
I have been a volunteer committee member with the CFA Institute for over twenty years. The CFA Institute has 130,000 charter holders. I co-authored the CIPM syllabus reading on Benchmarks for the CFA Institute jointly with Professor Connover and Professor David Carino.
I have mentored a number of students during internships as well as supervising their dissertations. I am equally comfortable working with large or small groups. I have overseen large teams and conducted lectures to more than 150 students at a time.
The Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, which I am responsible for, won the Educational award in the People Make Glasgow, Inspiring City Awards 2018.
Research interests
My research interests revolve around financial technology, financial time-series and the regulation of capital markets. I have written a number of peer reviewed papers on these subjects, as well as index construction, fund management and emerging financial markets.
I have pioneered research into using blockchain and distributed ledgers, and their applications in the Fintech ecosystem and distributed marketplaces.
My research has a through grounding in Financial Market Theory, albeit focused on its practical application. I have, for example, co-filed a US Patent application (no16/2635582) for a System for Estimating the Value of a Company using Financial Technology. I have also, with my co-investigators, undertaken a large precision time stamping experiment on financial blockchain.
Professional activities
- African equities investing: what lies ahead?
- Participant
- 10/6/2020
- 4th International Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts
- Participant
- 22/2/2020
- Financial stability and accounting standards
- Speaker
- 13/2/2020
- Workshop on Emerging Cyber-Risk Challenges For Finance, Insurance and Technology Sectors
- Participant
- 6/2/2020
- BBK Digital Economy Forum & Expo
- Participant
- 15/1/2020
- Scottish Government (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 16/12/2019
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Projects
- AFRC Route to Impact Funding
- Broby, Daniel (Principal Investigator)
- The Center for Financial Regulation and Innovation (CeFRI) jointly with Electronic and Electrical Engineering (EEE) - investigation of applications of financial blockchain and distributed ledger technolog
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2017
- Precision time-stamping of financial blockchain
- Broby, Daniel (Principal Investigator)
- Joint research with the National Physical Laboratory, Toronto Stock Exchange and ZYen.
- 03-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
- Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation
- Broby, Daniel (Principal Investigator)
- Official launch of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation which will help to address the systemic failure of regulators to keep pace with financial innovation.
- 06-Jan-2016 - 06-Jan-2016
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