Derivatives & Trading Training

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Available Courses:

Advanced Swaps
Capital Modelling and Capital Management
Counterparty Risk of OTC Derivatives
Equity Derivatives
Exotic Options
Fundamentals Of Swaps
How the Financial Markets Work
Mastering Credit Derivatives
School Of Bonds & Fixed Income
School Of Derivatives
School Of International Capital Markets
School of Treasury Products and Risk Management
Understanding & Using Options
Understanding Commodity Markets & Commodity Trading

A practical guide to the strategies and techniques necessary to understand, analyse, assess and utilise the swaps market fully

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Understand the key concepts of yield curve modelling
Apply and use interest rate derivatives effectively
Price and hedge interest rate swaps
Price exotic swaps
Calculate the risks and rewards of swaps market
Structure interest rate options into structured bonds
Fully grasp the complexities of the CDS market

Capital Modelling and Capital Management - More Details
Understand in detail how regulatory and economic capital interact in the post credit crunch world
This new and intensive two-day course offers the unique opportunity to: Understand how both economic and regulatory capital are defined for the major risk areas Evaluate the latest techniques for risk and capital estimation Understand the evolution of the Basel rules and how they are implemented Look at the new developments and requirements for Basel III Understand the role of Liquidity Risk and its new found importance post ‘Credit Crunch' Look in detail how capital can be optimised for regulatory, tax and accounting reasons Review practical features of capital management and techniques for optimisation

Counterparty Risk of OTC Derivatives - More Details

The credit crisis created a climate of fear around counterparties in OTC derivative markets. This course will help you develop the skills to understand the risks of dealing with OTC derivatives.

Attend this highly practical two-day programme and you will learn:

Best practice techniques for pricing and hedging counterparty risk, illustrated with real world case studies and models
Bilateral and multilateral payment and closeout netting techniques
How to structure derivative transactions that actually reduce your exposure to counterparty risk
State-of-the-art approaches for collateralisation – in theory and in practice
Tools for dealing with “wrong way” counterparty risk
The latest strategies and techniques for reducing credit exposure
How to deal with the problems created by the credit risk of derivatives

….and many other critical topics.

Equity Derivatives - More Details

Understand how to price and structure equity derivatives and learn exactly how to use them in practice. Taught by one of the leading experts in the field, this is the only equity derivatives course you'll need.

Attend this intensive two-day course and you will:

Understand the role of equity derivatives and their advantages to the issuer, the investor and the investment bank

Gain hands on experience of varying the parameters of equity structured products to meet client needs

Understand the derivative hedging process and how it can go wrong

Explore the practical limits of derivative models and their reliability

Be able to guide clients to better solutions for their equity risk management requirements

Have a much better understanding of the front offices approach to pricing and trading these products

Exotic Options - More Details
A sound understanding of exotic options is essential in order to exploit the opportunities they present. This course will help you understand the complexities of exotic options and teach you a wealth of practical tools for using exotics in a pricing, hedging and trading context.
A practitioner-focused guide to pricing, hedging and risk management Attend this intensive course and you will: Learn the best practice techniques to pricing and hedging exotic options illustrated with practical case studies and simulations Get to grips with all the major risk management components Master the complexities of a wide rage of exotics, including barrier, Asian, equity-linked, digital and ratchet options In addition to uses in foreign currency, you will cover interest rate options and derivatives on volatility Gain knowledge from one of the leading pioneers in his field; the instructor is a member of the New Product Committee at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and is noted for his cutting-edge knowledge in the exotics arena

Fundamentals Of Swaps - More Details

A solid understanding of the mechanics of swaps is a requisite for every derivatives professional. This highly practical course will help you to get to grips with all aspects of pricing, hedging and trading swaps.

Attend this intensive two-day course and gain a practical understading of:

The development of the swaps market, its current size and key players
Main swap instruments including interest rate swaps, currency swaps and simple non-generic swaps
Uses and applications of swap products
Swap portfolio risk management
Capital requirements, documentation and regulatory issues

How the Financial Markets Work - More Details

Designed to expel the confusion that often surrounds the financial markets, this course looks at all the major financial markets and will help you understand the products that drive them.

A two-day, fully comprehensive course on the international capital markets and instruments.

Course objectives:

Gaining full insight into the origins of the capital markets, the key players and the role of the regulatory institutions
Thorough grounding in the main financial products and how they are used, including: bonds, equities, futures and forwards, swaps and options
Defining and exploring the key features and purposes of the financial markets, including fixed income markets, equity markets, money markets, foreign exchange market, swaps market, forwards and futures markets, options market and credit markets
Unravelling the credit crunch: causes, consequences and the future

Mastering Credit Derivatives - More Details
A comprehensive and practical guide to the current credit derivatives market
Attend this two-day intensive course and gain a practical understanding of: The credit derivatives market, its current size and key players The uses and applications of credit derivatives The impact of recent market turmoil Credit default swaps, credit-linked note and CDOs Credit derivative pricing Bank regulatory capital requirements, documentation and legal considerations The outlook for a market influx

School Of Bonds & Fixed Income - More Details

An essential training course for all bond and fixed income professionals. Developed over time to become the programme of choice for anyone looking to enhance their practical knowledge of bonds and fixed income trading.

What you will learn by attending this programme:

Master practical bonds pricing techniques
Get to grips with bond mathematics
Understand bond sensitivities to ensure effective investment and trading decisions
Learn how futures, options and swaps can be used as hedging and trading technique in the bond market
Get to grips with repos and reverses and learn how to price them
Learn how to use strips to exploit arbitrage opportunities
Use the term structure of interest rates to effectively price bonds and swaps
Discover new insights into liability swaps, asset swaps and their relationship to the bond markets
Understand the debt origination process

School Of Derivatives - More Details

This intensive course is designed primarily to provide detailed insights into the principles, methods and mathematical tools for understanding the analytics of derivatives structuring, use, valuation, control, and risk management. The emphasis is on better understanding of the intuition behind the analytics employed, and not the complex mathematics per se.

This unique residential course:

Provides a unifying framework for understanding the two most influential analytical tools underpinning derivatives market valuation and products

model-free swaps (forwards)
model-dependent options

Will be taught in a series of connected modules that focus on applicable techniques, whilst remaining analytically and mathematically rigorous and in an accessible manner
Emphasises the economic intuition behind the key theoretical concepts, apparatus and vocabulary of derivatives

Distils the subtleties and essence of derivatives use and valuation tools, bridging the gap between theory and practice

Uses numerous worked examples set in a real-life context using actual historical market prices
Demystifies difficult concepts illustrated throughout with concrete examples and worked through by extensive modelling using Excel spreadsheet applications

School Of International Capital Markets - More Details
Designed to help professionals develop a detailed practical understanding of the global capital markets and the products that drive them.
Five reasons why you must attend this course: It has been specially designed by an industry expert enabling you understand the drivers, mechanics and techniques essential for success in today’s volatile international marketplace You will benefit from in-depth marketfocused tuition designed to optimise your skills and increase your effectiveness within all aspects of the international capital markets The residential nature of the course enables you to be completely immersed in this subject You will get more detail incorporated here than on any other capital markets course, highlighting structural techniques and mistakes previously made It is tailored specifically to your needs. Intensive coverage and case studies will focus on the industries and sectors that YOU choose with a particular emphasis on practical applications

School of Treasury Products and Risk Management - More Details
A masterclass in understanding treasury markets and products. Designed with practitioners in mind, the course looks at the spectrum of treasury products and will teach you how to utilise them in a trading, hedging and risk management context.
Attend this highly practical residential course and you will: Learn how treasuries function in banks and corporations Gain an insight into managing currency and interest rate risk Discover how to create successful treasury policies Understand how to identify risks and how to hedge them Explore the relationship between trading and hedging Develop a knowledge of the currency risk management strategies of major corporations and how to profit from them Gather more information about attitudes to risk and its management

Understanding & Using Options - More Details
The practicalities of valuation, hedging and structuring
Attend this comprehensive training course and: Understand the mechanics of option pricing and valuation Create trading strategies using single and multiple options Learn how to exploit arbitrage opportunities using leverage Develop efficient hedging strategies and understand when they can fail Understand how to manage the risks inherent when using options Learn practical techniques for building and pricing sophisticated structured products

Understanding Commodity Markets & Commodity Trading - More Details
As commodity markets around the world continue to attract a lot of attention, this course will help you understand the mechanics of the markets and the applications of the associated derivative products.
Your definitive guide to all the major commodity markets and their trading applications With commodity markets reaching new highs and volatility increasing, this course aims to give an understanding to the major commodity markets and how to trade them. Over three intensive days you will learn: The characteristics and risks of the different commodity markets and how to capitalise on the different opportunities they present The rationale for investing and trading commodity products via the cash and futures market How to understand the benefits commodities offer as an alternative asset sector Practical trading strategies and techniques for the different commodity markets, including: Base metals Softs Energy Precious metals How to optimise your use of commodity derivatives as a robust trading and hedging tool