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## Darren Sharma

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Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. Hailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.

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## [Real analysis of VaR models, credit models and balance sheet numbers](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/real-analysis-of-var-models-credit-models-and-balance-sheet-numbers)

[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma)  08/12/15 15:00

Numbers are alluring. They are seductive and they are universal. [Mind Your Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language) was not set in a maths class.

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## Darren Sharma

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Darren has been a credit analyst in the City of London for 23 years (there were also all-too-brief postings to Paris and Buenos Aires, which made the man, as you can imagine). In 2005 he founded Frontline Analysts to train smart people around the world to be great capital markets analysts. Hailing from Birmingham, Darren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University.

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## [Real analysis of VaR models, credit models and balance sheet numbers](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/real-analysis-of-var-models-credit-models-and-balance-sheet-numbers)

[Darren Sharma](https://blog.frontlineanalysts.com/author/darren-sharma)  08/12/15 15:00

Numbers are alluring. They are seductive and they are universal. [Mind Your Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language) was not set in a maths class.

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