Bryan Kern
CEO at KPM Financial | Interest Rate Derivatives, Hedging and Capital Markets
- Role
- Principal and Owner at Kpm Financial
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bryan Kern
I help companies, real estate owners, and municipalities manage interest rate risk and structure efficient financing solutions using derivatives and capital markets strategies.With 25+ years of experience, I focus on making interest rate instruments like swaps and caps simple and cost-effective, helping clients optimize debt portfolios in changing rate environments.Open to connecting with professionals involved in financing, refinancing, or interest rate risk management.
Experience
Principal and Owner
Jul 2012 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US
KPM was founded in 2012 with a singular focus, to provide independent, highly technical interest rate derivative advisory services to the municipal, non-profit, corporate, and real estate markets. Our diverse backgrounds and decades of experience provide KPM’s clients insight into the inner workings of the swap market. KPM helps our clients navigate the maze of various interest rate hedging alternatives, bringing transparency to an often misunderstood market. Our experience and in-house technology ensures our clients are implementing hedges that make sense for their businesses at the best available price and with appropriate covenants.KPM provides services including education and risk evaluation, structural recommendations, documentation negotiation, policy implementation, price verification, ongoing derivative monitoring and Qualified Independent Representative services. We work directly with client\'s legal advisors and auditors regarding issues of integration, effectiveness and disclosure. We will also solicit competitive bids for municipal reinvestment products such as refunding escrows and project funds.KPM strives to bring transparency to some of the most complex and opaque sectors of the capital markets. We utilize real time market data, complex modeling capability, decades of experience and extensive industry relationships to structure, price, monitor, and execute financial solutions that are tailored to each client and their unique needs.
Education
Davidson College
Bachelor's, Mathematics
1996 — 1999
Skills
- Series 7
- Series 63
- Bonds
- Fixed Income
- Capital Markets
- Securities
- Investment Banking
- Trading
- Derivatives
- Credit
- Bloomberg
- Interest Rate Derivatives
- Options
- Financial Structuring
- Fx Options
- Hedging
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