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Interim Management

SQF offers you new ways in financing your enterprise

The implementing of alternative financing forms, like Factoring or an ABS financing, in your enterprise need intensive preparations.

The implications are far-reaching and concern among others

  • juridical problem formulations, like the legal validity of demands
  • credit risk measurement, such as the creditworthiness of the customer
  • accounting topics, such as the cancellation of receivables according to HGB and IAS
  • tax issues, such as the application of the interest barrier
  • organizational questions: who is responsible and in which way the processes are steered and illustrated >

These questions and her mutual interaction should be lighted up before the implementing in your enterprise (among other things from the point of view of capital structure management and the liquidity planning).

SQF analyses the advantageousness of a financing conversion for you and moves this, with positive result, in your enterprise as an interim manager.

Your advantage: The analysis of an independent experienced financing specialist brings all subjects of relevance to the discussion and avoids a non-advantageous implementation.

If the analysis comes to a positive result, SQF can implement the financing alternative with your employees on account of the closeness to your company and SQF’s good interlink in the market.

Your advantage: After the end of the operation the ways separate again and SQF remains your contact as an adviser for any furthermore appearing questions.

Dr. Joachim Schneegans

Dr. Joachim Schneegans has more than a decade of experience in management, structuring, implementation and valuation of financing transactions, securities and portfolios.

He has founded the SQF Analytic Solutions GmbH to simplify the cooperation with partners

  • Degree in Mathematics and Economics, University of Paderborn
  • Scientific employee at the Freiburg centre for data analysis and model building (FDM),
    University of Freiburg i. Br.
  • Doctorate on the stochastic analysis of Capital structure management, University of Freiburg i.Br.
  • Quantitative treasury analyst, IKB Deutsche Industrialbank AG, Dusseldorf
  • Head of the securitization desk in Capital markets department, Hamburg state bank, Hamburg
  • Senior structurer HSH Nordbank AG, Hamburg und Kiel
  • Self employed since 2006

Diversified funding

SQF delivers the design for a capital structure that fits your cash flows


Basis of other considerations is, as a rule, a cost-benefit analysis concerning the advantageousnes of the implementing of the new funding ways. The analysis encloses among other things

  • maturity of the tranches
  • collateralisation
  • investor relationship subject to the existing exposure and the required funding
  • servicing the tranches of funding from existing and expected cash flows
  • rollover estimation
  • expenditures subject to the implementation of the new funding structure

The capital structure analysis provides a deeper insight about optimization approaches:

  • of the overall funding
  • liquidity steering
  • enhance the firm value

 

SQF provides you with the financial product design to realize your financial goals


After we have got an overview, we implement the financing solution fitting to your needs. In the area of the structured financing

  • securitization of receivables
  • securitization of leasing receivables
  • asset based lending

 

SQF delivers to you the suitable and with your stakeholders co-ordinated financing solution

Wie offer advicesubject to tailor made mezzanine capital

  • participation rights
  • silent partnerships
  • perpetual bonds

To support you with necessary professional discussions with specialists we maintain good relations with investors, on financing transactions specified lawyer’s offices, auditors and rating agencies. The following subjects have regularly a relevance

  • taxational aspects (für Emittenten
  • accounting topics
  • contractual framework
  • subordination agreements
  • covenants (performance trigger)
  • pricing aspects
  • rating
  • investor relations

Risk modeling

SQF supports financial services companies with the practical implementation
of regulatory demands like the MaRisk and relevant risk carrying capacity calculations, the development and validation of rating procedures (Pd and LGD) for different asset classes and further quantitative duties.

The technical competence of SQF lies, on this occasion, in particular in the use of quantitative risk judgement procedures and experience in the assessment in line with market requirements of complex financing and derivatives.

SQF offers in particular

  • Assessment of structured capital tranches like ABS, CDO-or LBO-(share deal) financing tranches
  • Risk analysis of subportfoils (among other things distribution tests for the purposes of CVAR or other risk measures)
  • Elaboration of business models for risk departments
  • Implementing of error-minimising hedging algorithm for MonteCarlo simulations like OHMC
  • Development and backtesting of risk models with statistical tests (parametric and nonparametric)
  • Risk capacity measurement
  • Liquidity calculations in terms of Basel III (LCR und NSFR)
  • Standardization of risk measurement procedures
  • Analysis of rating agency models

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