João Garcia is the Head of the Credit Modeling team at the Treasury and Financial Markets of Dexia Group in Brussels. His current interests include credit derivatives, structured products, correlation mapping of credit portfolios in indices, developing strategies and trading signals for credit derivatives indices and pricing distressed assets. Before that he worked for four years on the construction of a grid system for strategic credit portfolio management of the whole Dexia Group. He has experience in methodologies to rate and price cash flow CDOs. He also worked on the allocation of credit economic capital and the pricing of exotic interest rate derivatives. He is an Electronic Eng. from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA, Brazil....