About us

About Pactum Securities

Pactum Securities acts as a service provider to originators and investors alike, aiming to ensure the efficient matching of offer and demand. It does so by converting loans and other illiquid assets into fungible securities eligible for safe custody.

For banks and other originators, Pactum Securities offers a fast and cost-efficient refinancing option via the capital markets. 

For institutional investors such as family offices or pension funds, Pactum Securities offers attractive investment opportunities à la carte in previously illiquid debt products. Since October 2018, Pactum Securities securitized with the Luxembourg securitization vehicle assets of more than EUR 40mn.

Who we are.

The Pactum Securities team combines many years of experience in finance, technology, and entrepreneurship. It consists of experts with extensive individual track records and valuable experience in various capital markets related fields, such as structuring, securities operations and IT.

our team
TAREK SELIM
Chief Executive Officer

After studying business administration at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, Tarek began his career as an investment banker in London, working for Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and UBS. He was a founding partner of Arabesque Asset Management, an ESG Quant Fund. He then worked at Deon Digital AG, a blockchain development company, as CFO and member of the Executive Board.

CLAUS SCHUSTER
Head of Client Relations

Claus brings more than twenty-five years of experience in capital markets to the team and is Head of Client Relations in Pactum Securities. He`s been responsible for structuring and distribution of alternative investment products for institutional investors, primarily in the DACH region out of London and Frankfurt since the early 1990s. He worked for various German, European and US banks. In 2016 he co-founded a FinTech company in Luxembourg and worked for FinTechs in Berlin and Munich.

IGOR SMIRNOV
Head of Product & Financial Modeling

After studying Mathematics & Computation at University College, Oxford, Igor covered ABS, bonds, and derivatives across the Fixed Income markets worldwide over the last twenty-five years, including as MD & Global Head of FI Flow Research at BNP Paribas, MD & Head of FI Quant Research for Europe for Banco Santander, CIO, and head of the IB Division of M2M Bank Europe.

KOLJA OESER
Technical Product Manager

Technical Product Manager with 10 years of experience working in the field of IT/automation, the last six years in FinTech. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience in the inception, planning, and delivery of innovative products, both in B2B and B2C settings. As a Product Manager, he has extensive leadership, technical, and operations experience with particular strengths in analytics, UX design, and behavioural economics/ psychology as well as hands-on experience in software engineering.

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Pactum Securities has chosen some of the most renowned service providers to support its business and processes.