About Us

About Us

Founded in 1996, R2Metrics provides managers of interest rate risk with fast, reliable and inexpensive analytical tools and reports.

About The Company

R2Metrics specializes in measuring how changes in interest rates will impact future cash-flows, asset yields and liability costs, market values, and total return expectations. Our firm specializes in modeling 100% of the items in a bond portfolio or on a company balance sheet, not just those items that are relatively easy and precise to model. We have the ability and know how to model financial items that have embedded options or other variables that can make accurate forecasting difficult.

About Us

All of our products are designed for ease of use and quick
turnaround times -- often measured in minutes vs. days or weeks for competing analytical reports

  • Online functionality for report processing and delivery
  • Our programs have an Excel/VBA user interface which is easy to use and customizable
  • Securities dealers have found our products very valuable in enhancing client relationships and increasing revenue
  • Unit costs per report are extremely low especially for higher volume users and can greatly enhance productivity and efficiency
  • Used by approximately 600 financial institutions a month to evaluate the risk/reward within their investment portfolios

Management Team:

  • J. Daniel Matheson, CEO

    Mr. Matheson is the CEO of R2Metrics and designed or co-designed the majority of the analytical software. He also serves as Senior Vice President and portfolio manager for First United Security Bank (USBI); and manager of the Bank Services Group of Synovus Securities. Mr. Matheson has been involved in the interest rate risk management business since 1979, and his work experience includes managing interest rate risk in securities trading operations as well as investment portfolio and company wide (ALCO) capacities.
    Mr. Matheson was formerly a managing director for Sterne, Agee and Leach, a Birmingham based investment bank, where he was manager of the bank group. He has authored numerous articles on interest rate risk management and been published by US Banker and Sheshunoff
    Publishing. He has been in the money management business since 1979 and is often a speaker at industry events on interest rate risk
    management.

  • Franck A. Southon, MBA, President

    Mr. Southon is originally from Guéret, France. He is a graduate from the University of Alabama with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics with a minor in Physics. He also completed his Masters in Science (Applied Mathematics) as well as his Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Financial Risk before joining R2Metrics in 2009.

  • Will Matheson, CFA, Executive Vice President

    Will Matheson joined R2Metrics in August of 2022. He has a decade of accounting, technology and FP&A experience working for private equity backed businesses in the technology space. Most recently, he was a VP and Corporate Controller for 3GTMS LLC, a logistics software company. Additionally, he received his CFA in September of 2017 and has an extensive background with security valuation and market analysis. Will received a Masters of Science in Finance, specializing in valuation, from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management in 2013. Prior to this, he graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2011 with a double major in Economics and History.

Contact Us

(205) 991-9415 6930 Cahaba Valley Road, Suite 201 , Birmingham, AL 35242 web@r2metrics.com