Engineering Alpha

Engineering Alpha

What Working in Counterparty Risk Taught Me - Technically and Human-wise

My First Work Experience as an Intern Back in 2013

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Feb 06, 2026
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When people hear counterparty risk, they usually imagine spreadsheets, legal language, and obscure failure scenarios that never happen.

That’s not entirely wrong. But it’s also not the point.

Working in counterparty risk (as my first intern experience around 2013) taught me far more than how to measure exposure or stress-test a portfolio. It taught me how…

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