Prof. Dr. Uwe Wystup

Personal Details

Uwe Wystup is managing director of MathFinance AG. Before, he has actively worked in FX derivatives trading as Financial Engineer, Global Structured Risk Manager and Advisor since 1992, including Citibank, UBS, Sal. Oppenheim and Commerzbank. He is one of the few hybrids in the world working in the intersection of the derivates market and academic research.

Uwe earned his PhD in mathematical finance from Carnegie Mellon University, is currently Professor of Financial Option Price Modeling and Foreign Exchange Derivatives at University of Antwerp and Honorary Professor of Quantitative Finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Together with his team at MathFinance he provides independent (re-)structuring, valuation, model validation and expert witness services.

His first book Foreign Exchange Risk was published in 2002, quickly became the market standard and has also been translated into Mandarin. His second book FX and Structured Products appeared in 2006 with a fully updated and expanded second edition in 2017. Many of his papers appeared in scientific journals.