ABOUT
Dr. Oluwasegun Bewaji is an economist at Payments Canada. He oversees aspects of the research program at Payments Canada, including designing a common data model for the research team, developing agent-based computational economic models of payment network formation, tiering, and collateral and liquidity management. He is also responsible for statistical and machine learning-based forecasts, empirical analysis, and commentary on retail and high value payment volume and value growth and migration.
He is an applied computational economist with a focus on market microstructures who has written on strategic defaults, asset-backed securitisation, and regulatory policy design. His work has been published as a contributor to book chapters. He has presented, and chaired on scientific committee at conferences including the Bank of Canada and Payments Canada joint conference on agent-based modelling in financial market infrastructures. He has also contributed to published works and thinking at Agent-Based Computational Economics and Financial Modelling (ACEFINMOD).
Prior to taking up his current role at Payments Canada, Segun supported the OTC derivatives trading infrastructure at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, and structured finance and corporate trust and loans agency at HSBC.
Segun received his Ph.D. in Computational Finance from the University of Essex, Colchester, and Master of Sciences degree in International Economics, Banking and Finance from Cardiff University in Wales.
He is an applied computational economist with a focus on market microstructures who has written on strategic defaults, asset-backed securitisation, and regulatory policy design. His work has been published as a contributor to book chapters. He has presented, and chaired on scientific committee at conferences including the Bank of Canada and Payments Canada joint conference on agent-based modelling in financial market infrastructures. He has also contributed to published works and thinking at Agent-Based Computational Economics and Financial Modelling (ACEFINMOD).
Prior to taking up his current role at Payments Canada, Segun supported the OTC derivatives trading infrastructure at the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, and structured finance and corporate trust and loans agency at HSBC.
Segun received his Ph.D. in Computational Finance from the University of Essex, Colchester, and Master of Sciences degree in International Economics, Banking and Finance from Cardiff University in Wales.