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Web3 Decentralized Finance and Digital Assets Intern

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Moody's is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions.

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Team Overview

Enabling technologies such as blockchain and AI are revolutionizing various industries, driving a fundamental transformation in the economy. This shift redefines conventional processes, creating remarkable opportunities for growth and innovation, and pushing the world towards a more digitalized landscape. As a consequence, the impact of these advancements extends to the capital markets.

There is a lot going on, and Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) has adopted a proactive approach for digital finance to assess the direction, magnitude and consequences of digitalization and its cybersecurity aspects.

As the digitalization of financial markets accelerates, fuelled by blockchain and other emerging technologies, the MIS Decentralized Finance and Digital Assets (DFDA) organization leads initiatives to build MIS' strategy for blockchain, digital assets and DeFi. Our cross-MIS efforts are designed to ensure Analytical and Business preparedness to participate in digital financial markets – from understanding the impact of digital assets in the rating process and in our credit views, to being able to ingest and process data, and disseminate content via Blockchain platforms.

Overview Of Role Responsibilities

• Develop knowledge of Blockchain token economy, digital/crypto asset markets, and decentralized finance (DeFi)
• Assist in projects to design novel economic and crypto-economic frameworks based on identified problems in the evolving digital finance industry.
• Support research on existing tokenomics in the market, token operating models, applications, usability, ecosystem designs (token issuance, implementation, etc.), strategies used for tokens introduction on the secondary market (CEX, DEX), post-issuance controls, etc.
• Contribute to designing and running simulations for stress testing and backtesting of platform token's risk parameters; and analyze on-chain and market data through various analytics and data science tools to draw conclusions on the market.
• Research and support mapping of well-explored economic mechanisms and models to prepare easy-to-digest analyses around token mechanisms on specific protocols and ecosystems for internal (and external) stakeholders.
  
  

Qualifications

• Student studying towards a PhD or Master’s Degree in Economics or Finance or in a quantitative science field (including Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Physics) with an economics concentration or experience.
• Proficiency in econometric and statistical packages, such as STATA, EViews, Matlab, SPSS, AMPL, etc.
• Preferred:
• Understanding or experience developing monetization mechanisms
• Experience applying stochastic methods to modelling economic concepts and systems.
• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills
  

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring hourly range for this position is $1.00 to $5.00, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [email protected]. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.

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