The Financial Modelling Podcast

In this episode, we get to the bottom of what maths of finance is all about!  Cyprian Moloto, a quantitative risk analyst, explains how he uses maths every day in one of Africa's largest investment banks.

From credit rating methodologies to machine learning - this episode dives into the details of this fascinating field!

Join us as we chat to Wouter du Preez, an aviation financier.  Wouter discusses aircraft leasing and how finance works in the aviation sector. He also discusses how big data has an increasingly important role in aviation finance.

In this episode, Alan Chown, Inflation Trader at Rand Merchant Bank, discusses how the inflation market works and how to model inflation in financial models.  We discuss how countries and traders view inflation, and how to estimate this important assumption which can affect both revenue and costs!

In this podcast, we chat to Colin Human, CEO of GoalFix Financial Modelling.  Colin has been a financial modeller for 40 years, and also trains and lectures on financial modelling worldwide.

Colin chats to us about his company, how he started financial modelling and what it is like to run a financial modelling firm.

He also gives advice to those looking to start financial modelling or a small business.

In this episode, we chat to Dave Theron - a South African financial modelling legend.  Dave shares with us his financial modelling story, from using punched cards and running scenarios using mainframes, to his career as a lecturer and trainer.

Dave is well known in the South African and global financial modelling world, having trained in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Namibia and South Africa.

Join us as we travel back in time to the beginning of financial modelling.

In this episode, we chat to Danielle Stein Fairhurst from plum solutions.  Danielle is an author, financial modeller and host of the Australian financial modelling meetups.  She talks to us about modelling trends and how to learn from other financial modellers, as well as her latest book!

The accurate financial modelling of infrastructure projects is critical to ensure they are properly banked and robust enough to handle any circumstances that may arise.  Hear from Dario Musso, the Head of Infrastructure Finance at Rand Merchant Bank, as we discuss how infrastructure finance modelling has evolved and what role it plays in banking today.

Despite the fact that artificial intelligence, automation and machine learning are so widely discussed at the moment, Microsoft Excel remains one of the most commonly used tools in any finance department. Financial Modelling continues to be one of the top skills required for Finance professionals in today’s corporates, business or even government. What does all this innovation and disruption mean for financial modellers, or anyone working in finance?

Hear from financial modelling expert, Lance Rubin (https://au.linkedin.com/in/lance-rubin-33a61b), who disrupted 75% of his own role as the CFO at the fintech start-up, Banjo, by using some of this technology.  Lance Rubin is the CEO of Model Citizn, a Melbourne-based financial modelling consulting firm that specialises in building models across a range of sectors including social benefit bonds, infrastructure and property and financial services for companies and investment trusts. Lance whilst remaining as the CFO of Banjo is also a contractor to the KPMG Australia modelling team and has over 20 years in financial services