Peter Carr

Peter Carr is the Principal of Carr Consulting based in the historic German wine-growing capital of Mainz which lies in the Rhine valley some 30 miles west of Frankfurt, Germany.

Peter is a consultant within the financial services sector with over thirty years’ experience in business analysis, technical design and implementation of interface and reporting solutions. He has worked on local and cross-border projects in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, Sydney, Vienna and Zurich providing consultancy to many of the leading banks in the international marketplace.

Peter holds a first class honours degree in Mathematics and Computing from Bath University, England. He is a member of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, a member of the Chartered Institute for IT and an affiliate member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He has recently expanded his technical skill set by completing comprehensive courses in Artificial Intelligence (AI) through Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Helsinki and LinkedIn Learning.

He works comfortably in both English and German and has dual British and German nationality thanks to Brexit!

Domains

Over the last twenty years Peter has worked predominantly in the financial services industry on a wide variety of risk management and trading-related projects covering FX, interest rate derivatives, money market and structured products. He has supported front, middle and back-office teams and worked closely with business analysts, traders and senior management to provide solutions for trading, liquidity and market risk management, value at risk and many other projects. Please use the contact form for a full project list.

Over the past few years, Peter has become interested in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data (see COVID), Machine Learning and non-financial domains. This was driven partly by the changing environment but also by a desire to continue learning and applying new technologies and to look for fresh challenges (see LinkedIn).

Systems

Peter has worked with the following financial systems: Calypso, Eurex, Eurex Bonds, Eurex Repo, FIS Ambit Treasury Management (Quantum), Kondor+, MarkitWire, Murex, Summit, SwapClear, TriOptima, Xetra and the interfaces between them. These interfaces have ranged from report-based batch interfaces to real-time trading interfaces.

Technologies

He has many years of practical experience in technologies such as: Agile, C, ChatGPT, Deep Learning, DevOps, Django, Generative AI, GIT, HTML, Java, Jira, LangChain, LlamaIndex, LLMs, Machine Learning, MS Access, MS Excel, Neural Networks, Perl, Prompt Engineering, Python, R, SQL, Sybase, Unix Scripting, Windows and XML.