CheckSig
Bitcoin and crypto solutions for private and institutional investors. Italian regulated bitcoin custodian.
checksig.com →Work
A founder's day job, two research institutes, two open source projects and a career in finance from 1996 to 2018.
Now
Digital Gold Institute
R&D, consultancy and training about bitcoin and blockchain technology.
dgi.io →Crypto Asset Lab
Research lab of the Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca. Ferdinando chairs the CAL conference, co-organised with the European Commission.
cryptoassetlab.org →Open source
btclib
A Python library for bitcoin and the elliptic curve cryptography it uses, meant for teaching, learning and use. Ferdinando made the first commit in October 2017 and most of the commits since. It is MIT-licensed, on GitHub and PyPI, with documentation.
github.com/btclib-org/btclib →QuantLib
A free and open source C++ library for quantitative finance, with a Python binding on PyPI. The project began in 2000 at RiskMap, a company Ferdinando co-founded. Ferdinando signed the first announcement, on 11 December 2000, with Luigi Ballabio and Marco Marchioro (history). The code is BSD-licensed and on GitHub.
quantlib.org →Finance
Intesa Sanpaolo
Former head of blockchain and virtual currencies at the bank. Interview on Finextra.
Banca IMI, Banca Caboto, Monte Paschi Asset Management
Headed trading, quantitative and risk-management teams. Cofounder and managing partner of RiskMap, now part of Confluence Technologies.
Physics
Former physicist. More than twenty years in finance, 1996 to 2018: investment banking, asset management and quantitative finance. Since 2014 bitcoin has taken a growing share of his work. Ferdinando left Banca IMI in 2018 and stopped teaching finance in 2022.