Alexander Lipton is a Managing Director, Quantitative Solutions Executive at Bank of America. Prior to his current role, he was a Managing Director, Co-head of the Global Quantitative Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He also held senior managerial positions at several sell and buy side firms. Currently, Alexander is an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at NYU. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor of Quantitative Finance at University of Oxford and Advisory Board member at the Oxford-Man Institute. Earlier, he was Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London. Before switching to finance, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois and a Consultant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His current interests include FinTech, distributed ledgers, digital banking, monetary circuit, industrial strength derivative pricing including regulatory and economic capital calculations and valuation adjustments, as well as large scale holistic bank balance sheet optimization. Alexander published more than a hundred papers on applied mathematics and quantitative finance and authored/edited several books on these subjects.