Our Services
Hedging & Risk Management
We Assist in A to Z related to Fx hedging. Hedging of Imports, Exports, FC Loan, Off beat currencies, Hedge Accounting, Bank Negotiation, Strategy making and anything related to Fx Hedging.
Interest Cost Reduction
High interest cost is the peril behind performance of many companies. QuantArt helps company save interest cost through foreign currency fund arrangement and appropriate hedging of the same
Forex Cost Savings
QuantArt helps importers and FC Borrowers hedge in an efficient manner and thus improve upon the effective cost achievable through simple hedging or no hedging. We target effective IRR improvement as well. The savings straightway go to bottomline
Investment Banking
We specialize in arranging debt and mezzanine capital for our clients. Our scope includes rupee loans, rupee bonds, and working capital as well as foreign currency loans (ECBs). We also assist corporates in managing their day to day fundraising operations.
Our Team
Samir Lodha
CEO
Samir founded QuantArt in 2012 January. He is an MBA from IIM Calcutta with 18 years in senior positions with Foreign exchange treasuries of JP Morgan (Executive Director), HSBC (Associate Director) and ICICI Bank wherein he advised large companies across India on risk management and hedging of foreign exchange and interest rates exposures. He has sound experience and understanding of global markets, market economics, hedging strategies, hedge algorithms, price calculation and risk-return optimization.
Indradeep Khan
Managing Partner
Indradeep is an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur with 15 years in senior positions with Foreign exchange treasuries of Deutsche Bank (Director), JP Morgan (Vice President) and ICICI Bank wherein he advised large companies across India on risk management and hedging of foreign exchange and interest rates exposures. He specialises in international markets across asset classes (Fx, Equity and Debt) and is one of the leading authorities of Blockchain in India. He is also guest faculty and speaker in some of leading B-schools and corporate campuses.
Rajesh Bhura
Managing Partner
Rajesh is an MBA from IIM Bangalore with over 18 years in Debt Capital Markets. He has worked with RBS, Standard Chartered, ICICI Bank and SBI Caps in various positions in the past. He has advised large and mid-sized corporate and FIs in raising debt from offshore and onshore markets. He has collectively assisted Indian issuers raise more than USD 50 Bn equivalent in various currencies across senior and subordinated debt.
Prasenjit Barnawat
Managing Partner
Prasenjit is an engineer with over 14 years of experience in corporate sector and for last 7+ years has been involved with FX markets. Prasenjit is an expert in creating alternative hedging strategies, option and swap pricing, valuation and scenario analysis. He is also an active trader in the forex market forming views and tracking markets.
Srinivas Puni
Managing Partner
Srinivas is an MBA from IIM Bangalore having more than a decade of experience in structuring forex and interest rates derivatives. He worked with banks like JP Morgan, Standard Chartered, Yes Bank and Axis Bank in the past. Srinivas has in-depth understanding of the quantitative models behind derivative valuation and related CVA, DVA, FVA modelling. Srinivas conducts training on foreign exchange and risk management as well as advises specifically large clients
Vinod Garg
Partner
Vinod is an MBA from IIM Lucknow with 19 years’ experience in treasuries in India and Hong Kong wherein he advised large companies and banks on risk management, markets and hedging. Prior to joining QuantArt, he held the positions of Executive Director in Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas.