Boris M. Richard

Boris M. Richard (AKA Boris M. Loshak) is a Russian-born American financial economist, researcher, author, presenter, bond trader, hedge fund portfolio manager, and cryptocurrency and blockchain expert with expertise in complex financial instruments and derivatives, structured finance products, market structure, digital assets and blockchain analytics. He is the founder and CEO of UpAI LLC - an advisory and expert witness firm which aims to augment human intelligence and expertise with a suite of AI agents and artificial intelligence and machine learning models and tools.
==Education==
Boris Richard received his B.A. and M.A. in Political Economy from the Moscow State University, followed by a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics from Daniels School of Business at Purdue University in 1993-1996. His doctoral dissertation, under the advisorship of John McConnell, developed a game theory-based rational expectations equilibrium model of entry into an industry, and, separately, constructed a general technique for the valuation of risky defaultable bonds based on the structural approach to the modeling of correlated interest rate risk and default risk..
==Career==
Boris Richard started his career in capital markets in New York at Prudential Securities (1996 - 1998). In 1998 - 2002, he worked as a mortgage-backed securities and structured finance strategist/institutional investment advisor and the head of mortgage derivatives research at Goldman Sachs in New York. In 2002-2003 he was the head of the agency debt research at Barclays Capital.. For the following three years, 2003-2006, Boris Richard transitioned from securities research to trading and assumed the role of Senior Vice-President at HSBC Securities (USA) where he was responsible for relative value model-based agency debt trading and the expansion of the investment bank into the Supra, Sovereign and Agency debt market globally.. At HSBC Securities, he was also the market maker in Callable bond|callable agency bonds, responsible for managing a $2bn portfolio of such securities. During the subsequent five years Boris Richard ran quantitative fixed income arbitrage investment strategies at hedge funds Platinum Grove Asset Management (with Myron Scholes as its chief investment officer), Pine River Capital Management and Graham Capital Management. His trading strategies sought to identify and exploit price and yield spread or option-adjusted spread discrepancies between mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bonds, interest rate swaps, interest rate futures and interest rate derivatives, for example, swaptions, mortgage options and caps and floors. The quantitative models that he developed and implemented for this purpose were designed to automatically generate entry and exit signals on the basis of econometric tools and, later on, deep Q-learning algorithms. 
After working for seven years as a senior mortgage-backed securities and financial market expert at Cornerstone Research in 2011-2018, Boris Richard launched and led cryptocurrency and blockchain disputes advisory practice at FTI Consulting in 2018-2022. He subsequently served as the Global Head of Crypto Advisory and Digital Asset Economic Disputes at JS Held
==Current Work and Interests==
Most recently, Boris Richard is the Founder and CEO of UpAI LLC - a boutique consulting and expert witness firm which provides advisory and litigation-related services to crypto native businesses, major law firms, traditional financial institutions, and private individuals in the areas of digital assets, blockchain and fixed income markets. The firm is also developing techniques to utilize AI and machine learning methods, in particular graph neural networks, subgraph representation learning (SGRL) and large language models (LLMs), for cryptocurrency wallet and asset tracing, blockchain analysis, compliance investigations and transactional analysis of on-chain and market activity. Due to limitations and risks of AI inferences, however, such inferences must always be coupled with human expertise and customized client solutions. 
==Presentations and Publications==
Boris Richard presented at various public forums and chaired multiple discussion panels of digital asset industry executives and attorneys on a variety of cryptocurrency related issues, including regulatory and litigation issues, digital asset compliance, cryptoasset valuations, risk and structure of cryptocurrency markets. He is a repeated presenter at Horasis, the Knowledge Group, CPA Academy, and CeFPro. He is a member of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, Senior Fellow at the International Congress of Blockchain Legal Advisors, and a member of the Financial Club. He is the author of various articles and educational materials on digital assets and blockchain industry, as well as the organizer and participant of multiple presentations and panel discussions.
Category:American financial economists
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Category:Moscow State University alumni