Singularity Technologies was founded by Nicolas Bentz, an interest-rates derivatives trader with a macro and quant focus, and a software engineer by training. He has spent more than a decade trading short-end G3 rates and options, running macro portfolios, and building tools and models that sit close to risk and execution.
Most recently, Nicolas was an Assistant Portfolio Manager at Symmetry Investments in Singapore. There he generated trade ideas in G3 short-end and global macro, managed an autonomous carve-out portfolio, and built models in Python and Excel to value LIBOR/SOFR fallback scenarios and to recombine risk system outputs into synthetic risk views used in day-to-day portfolio management.
Before Symmetry, he founded a systematic trading start-up, where he designed and implemented a fully automated trading platform for the top cryptocurrencies and their derivatives. The platform handled strategy execution, legged order management, smart order routing, and full tick and order book recording, and delivered solid returns in a difficult market while he managed and mentored a small technical team.
Earlier in his career, Nicolas spent six years on the interest-rate desk at Deutsche Bank in London. He first traded short-term rates — FRAs, swaps, basis swaps and OIS — in GBP, USD and EUR, acting as a main market maker and developing relative-value, carry and mean-reversion approaches. He then moved to the interest-rate options desk, market-making short-dated EUR and GBP gamma (swaptions, cap/floors, CMS) for major hedge funds and implementing global macro views with options structures.
Before moving into markets, he worked as a C++ developer and project manager in the tech and energy sectors. At Sagem (Safran Group) he developed cryptographic and biometric algorithms and managed international smartcard projects. At Total he led a USD 10m billing-system build, part of a larger USD 50m renewal of the company's European fuel card platform, supervising specifications for systems that process billions in annual customer billings and complex fiscal and commission flows across multiple countries.
Nicolas holds a Master of Science in Engineering (Computer Science major, Economics minor) from Télécom Paris and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated in the top 10% of his class with a 780 GMAT (99th percentile). He has passed all three levels of the CFA examination on the first attempt and has long-standing practical experience in programming (Python, C/C++, Matlab, SQL) and applied machine learning for financial markets.
