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Derivatives School: Pricing & Trading - UK Training Course

This course gives you the essential fundamentals in using financial derivatives.

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What you will learn in this derivatives training course

This derivatives course is designed to give you the essential fundamentals in using financial derivatives.

You will be given the tools to understand transactions involving exchange traded (ET) and over-the-counter (OTC) derivative products.

The course focuses on the fundamental concepts in structuring, pricing and using derivative products with a focus on interest-rate and currency derivative products.

The 3 main benefits of this 3-day derivatives training course are that you'll learn:

The fundamental building blocks of derivative and swap product structures
How to price swaps and derivatives
How to use swap and derivative products for risk management and raising funding

Derivatives School Training Course Highlights

DAY ONE
Day one of this course will provide you with knowledge of how to structure derivative & swap products

The Role of Financial Derivatives
The Building Blocks of Derivatives
Exchange Traded (ET) Markets
Over-The-Counter (OTC) Markets

DAY TWO
Day two will provide you with an introduction to derivatives pricing using simple to understand approaches and minimal use of mathematics

Concept of Arbitrage Free Pricing of Derivative Instruments
Pricing Forward Contracts
Pricing Option Contracts
More Complex Derivative Structures

DAY THREE
Day three will provide you with actual experience in using derivatives (futures contracts, options and swaps) to manage risk, create synthetic assets, undertake arbitrage and raise funding

Using Financial Derivatives
Capital Market Arbitrage Using Derivative Transactions
Using Derivatives for Risk Management

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Who should attend this derivatives training course?

This course is suitable for those who have no prior knowledge or a basic understanding of derivatives. The course will begin at a basic level and move towards an intermediate level.

Treasury staff in banks and corporations
Dealers and Traders
Sales and Marketing staff
Institutional investors
Finance professionals

This is a good pre-requisite course for our other derivatives and Advanced Derivatives courses.

What you need to bring

You will need to bring a financial calculator or a laptop for the practical exercises.

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Your course instructor

Christopher Danielewski: Christopher Danielewski, a Managing Director with a US based consultancy, specializes in the areas of foreign exchange, money markets, derivatives and fixed income products.

Before joining this consultancy, Mr. Danielewski managed capital markets businesses for Citibank, Credit Agricole Indosuez and Calyon, Credit Agricole?s Corporate and Investment Bank. During a twenty year career at Citibank Mr. Danielewski held a number of senior positions. He was responsible for all trading and sales activity in the Citibank Paris trading room for FX, Derivatives, Bonds and Money Markets, managed the Emerging Markets FX trading team in New York and was co-head of Citigroup New York?s Corporate Foreign Exchange Sales. He later joined the Credit Agricole group, first as head of capital markets for the U.S. based in New York and later as the head of fixed income products for Central and Eastern Europe based in Warsaw. Throughout his career, Mr. Danielewski has been involved with training initiatives as a trainer and manager in the U.S. as well as various countries around the world.

Mr. Danielewski completed his undergraduate education at The Johns Hopkins University and received a Masters in International Economics and Political Science from the The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies(SAIS). He is fluent in English, French, and Polish.

Dates & Locations & Fees

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