About

Obie-McFarland is an interdisciplinary FinTech and R&D organization whose mission is to enhance financial engineering for individuals and corporations. We do this through developing open-source software and FinTech products, and producing research on subjects intertwined with finance. 

We draw research inspiration from several dozens of theoretical areas.
By remaining versatile in several areas of study, we hope to stay open minded to abstract concepts with potential financial applications to realize profits which haven't been done for. Examples of what we use in our financial modeling include:

Mathematics (Non-Financial): Topology, graph theory, combinatorics, dynamical systems/chaos/ergodic theory, differential geometry, measure theory, stochasticity.

Operations Research: Stochastic systems, linear/integer/dynamic/Riemannian optimization, machine learning algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations, control theory.

Statistics: Time series analysis, regression analysis, copula models, extreme value theory, (non)parametric statistics, PCA, factor models, Kalman filtering, GARCH, quantile regression, bayesian inference.

Other Subjects: Data science, physics, computer science (various), probability, economics, game theory.

We view the future of finance as an increasingly decentralized domain across the globe.
We are heavily inspired by the accessibility the AGI revolution has given the world. From healthcare to education, societies around the world are now bearing witness to a new and evolving world where the systems that have been in place for years are being shaken up, pivoted, or undone altogether. Finance is no exception.

By providing tools and technologies available to the world at large, here are our four goals to help shape the future of financial engineering:
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  1. We aim to make navigating finances efficiently something you don't need a degree to do. If you have a bank account, a retirement fund, or want to start earning more money back on your investments, we believe you deserve the right to advanced analytics & insights made simple.
  2. We aspire to make the world more aware of financial engineering and FinTech by making them more public-facing. ​We at OBM see the value in creating a world where technological aspects of finance are not centralized to hedge funds or investment banks, but rather are integrated in tools consumers can use. Through the ever-evolving FinTech landscape, we view our products as good enough to stand by themselves but also welcome the reality of them benefitting existing entities.
  3. We capitalize on AI to help retail investors, firms, and everyone in between capitalize on profits. Our company relies on artificial intelligence in many different aspects, and for good reason. We don't rely on AI to solve the problems we're presented, but strategically integrate it into our algorithms and ideas where essential data needs generative and predictive analytics.
  4. We envision a marketplace with more "perfect information" to drive innovation. Through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), we envision a marketplace that has access to the advanced analytics the "top brass" of investors have. By doing this, we aim to be catalysts in ensuring technology surrounding finance is forced to improve, ultimately making the consumer's life more seamless.

Join us in our mission to revolutionize to usage of financial engineering.