Clack has over 30 years experience as a specialist consultant to blue-chip clients and mentor to start-up companies.
He regularly responds to invitations from external organisations to deliver research, private briefings, focused analysis, mentoring and industry events aimed at policymakers and stakeholders, and to chair and talk at both academic and industry conferences. [Learn more]
Example areas of expertise:
- Adaptive non-linear factor models for automated stock selection
- Automation of Legal Review
- Capacity Exchanges
- Computable contracts
- Executable specification languages
- Formal specification of oil reservoir model
- Genetic Programming for stock picking
- Securities Settlement Systems
- Smart Contracts
- Smart Contract Templates and the semantics of smart contracts
- Smart legal close-out netting
- Smart phone memory management
- System architecture for banking payments systems
- System Simulation and Algorithm Design
- Systemic risk and regulatory data management
Selected organisations
Accenture
Securities settlement systems. Review and challenge: system simulation and algorithm design. Advise on executable specification for algorithm simulation and testing on real data. Specialist consultant for payment systems (review and challenge of system architecture).
Amoco Exploration
Barclays Bank
Smart Contract Templates. Programming Languages
Charity Commission
Clearmatics
Privacy aspects of wholesale payments. Privacy enhancements for Ethereum
Clearstream
Securities Settlement algorithms. Multilateral net settlement with automated lending.
Clifford Chance
CrestCo
Detecting cyclic transaction dependencies during gross settlement.
D2 Legal Technology
EBRD
FIA
ISDA
LloydsTSB
System architecture review and challenge for Straight Through Payments.