The Big R-Book

Acknowledgements

Writing a book that is so eclectic and holds so many information would not have been possible without tremendous support from so many people: mentors, family, colleagues, and ex-colleagues at work or at universities. This book is in the first place a condensation of a few decades of interesting work in asset management and banking and mixes things that I have learned in C-level jobs and more technical assignments.

I thank the colleagues of the faculties of applied mathematics at the AGH University of Science and Technology, the faculty of mathematics of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, and the colleagues of HSBC for the many stimulating discussions and shared insights in mathematical modelling and machine learning.

To the MBA program of the Cracovian Business School, the University of Warsaw, and to the many leaders that marked my journey, I am indebted for the business insight, stakeholder management and commercial wit that make this book complete.

A special thanks goes to Piotr Kowalczyk, FRM and Dr. Grzegorz Goryl, PRM, for reading large chunks of this book and providing detailed suggestions. I am also grateful for the general remarks and suggestions from Dr. Jerzy Dzieża, faculty of applied mathematics at the AGH University of Science and Technology of Krakow and the fruitful discussions with Dr. Tadeusz Czernik, from the University of Economics of Katowice and also SeniorManager at HSBC, Independent Model Review, Krakow.

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