Accelerate onboarding. Strengthen expertise
At Derivatives Academy, we help financial institutions develop and retain top Derivatives talents - from onboarding to continuous development.
👉 More than training, a long-term partnership for talent development and retention.
Upskill your teams. Empower your business.
WHAT WE DO
A continuous learning partnership - from onboarding to mastery.
We build learning ecosystems that grow with your teams and evolve with your business.
Onboarding Programs
Accelerate integration and make new joiners productive faster with programs tailored to your desks, products, and processes.
Technical Training
Deep, hands-on courses on Derivatives and Structured Products, designed to strengthen expertise and drive confident execution.
Continuous Learning Initiatives
Keep teams sharp with modular training plans that evolve alongside your business and market trends.
Team-building Workshops
Enhance collaboration and communication through interactive learning experiencesthat break silos and encourage idea sharing.
Talent Recruitment Support
Leverage our industry network and insight to identify, assess, and onboard candidates ready to excel in derivatives and structured products.
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WHY IT MATTERS
In today’s markets, excellence is hard to sustain.
Pressure to deliver often leaves little time for learning, onboarding, or sharing expertise.
The result?
Knowledge gaps widen, silos form, and collaboration slows.
Over time, talent fades and performance follows.
We believe that continuous learning is the foundation of trust, retention, and innovation.
Because when people understand what they trade, structure, or sell they perform with confidence.
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HOW WE DRIVE IMPACT
Our approach is simple:
Turn complex Derivative and Structured Product concepts into clear, actionable, and market-driven learning.
Each program is designed to embed expertise directly into your business, with sessions led by real market practitioners - not academics.
We accompany your teams from onboarding to advanced development, ensuring that learning translates into tangible desk performance.
1. Expert-Led Learning
Your teams learn from real market practitioners with years of experience in structuring, trading, and sales.
2. Tailored to Your Business
No off-the-shelf content. Every program is shaped around your products, your markets, and your goals.
3. Empower & Retain Talent
Upskill your teams, boost confidence, and foster a true learning culture that keeps talent engaged and growing.
4. Build the Next Generation
From tailored training to recruitment support, we help you identify, prepare, and onboard the right talent - faster.
NEXT STEP:
Let’s Build Your Next Learning Strategy.
Book a 30-minute discovery call to explore how Derivatives Academy can accelerate your team’s growth and strengthen your knowledge-driven culture.
RESULTS THAT LAST
Partnering with Derivatives Academy ignites a powerful virtuous cycle within your organization.
Learning becomes a driver of performance strengthening communication, unifying teams, and elevating long-term results.
It’s a true culture multiplier.
When people see that growth is valued, they invest more in themselves and in each other.
Custom Corporate Training
All our corporate programs are customizable, allowing your teams to build their own training path.
A clear and engaging overview of key derivative instruments, how they work, and the fundamental concepts behind them.
We explore the main market participants and how derivatives are used for hedging, speculation, and investment strategies.
Perfect for anyone seeking a solid foundation in modern derivatives markets.
Topics:
- Introduction to Derivatives
- Forward & Futures
- Swaps
This workshop introduces the foundations of correlation and explores key multi-asset structures such as basket, worst-of, and outperformance options.
Participants will learn how correlation risk and cross-Greeks shape pricing, behaviour, and hedging of these products.
We also dive into dispersion products, including correlation swaps and practical dispersion trading approaches. A practical and intuitive guide to navigating complex payoffs across multiple underlying assets.
Topics:
- Correlation & Dispersion
- Basket Options
- WoF Options
- Outperformance Options
- Dispersion Trading
This workshop covers the mechanics and market behaviour of digital options, including discontinuous payoffs, one-touch vs no-touch structures, and the gamma/vega flip.
Participants will explore range options - payoffs, replication logic, skew exposure, and range-accrual pricing - along with their practical risk considerations.
We then dive into barrier options, reviewing their taxonomy, regular vs reverse features, hedging challenges, barrier shifts, and in-out parity.
Topics:
- Digital & Range Options
- Barrier Options
This workshop provides a clear overview of the main families of investment certificates, from simple tracker and discount certificates to more advanced barrier and turbo structures.
Participants will explore the mechanics, payoff profiles, and risk/return characteristics of outperformance, bonus, airbag, and twin-win certificates.
A practical session designed to demystify how certificates are built, how they behave in different market environments, and how investors use them.
Topics:
- Certificates (Bonus, Barrier Discount, Outperforrmance, Airbag, Twin-Win, ...)
This workshop introduces how dividends work in equity markets, covering dividend risk, modelling approaches, and the difference between implied and realized dividends.
Participants will explore dividend swaps and futures and understand how structured products influence dividend expectations.
We also examine decrement methodologies - fixed vs absolute - and their practical impact on pricing, performance, and product design.
Topics:
- Dividends & Decrements
A clear walkthrough of option fundamentals, from payoffs and pricing drivers to intrinsic/time value and put-call parity.
We cover the core of option pricing and hedging: Black-Scholes intuition, replication, delta-hedging, gamma–theta dynamics, and key Greeks.
The workshop concludes with volatility surfaces and its dynamics.
Topics:
- Vanilla Options
- All about Volatility
- Greeks
- P&L Decomposition
This session explores the full toolkit of option strategies, from vertical and calendar spreads to collars, risk-reversals, straddles, and strangles.
Participants will learn how these structures express market views, manage risk, and shape payoff profiles.
We also cover more advanced combinations such as butterflies and condors, giving attendees a practical understanding of strategy design and application.
Topics:
- Options Strategies
This workshop explores the mechanics and payoffs of key exotic options, including Asian options, floating-strike structures, forward-strike options, and cliquets.
Participants will understand practical challenges such as forward-volatility effects, path dependency, and the unique hedging issues these products create.
We also introduce quanto and compo options, highlighting how cross-currency and correlation dynamics influence pricing and risk.
Topics:
- Asian Options
- Floating Strike Options
- Quanto/Compo Options
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of structured products: key stakeholders, main types, advantages, and common myths such as barrier misconceptions. We then dive into Shark Notes and Reverse Convertibles, exploring market expectations, payoff mechanics, structuring logic, and scenario analysis.
Participants will gain practical insight into risk analysis, hedging considerations, and how these products compare with convertible bonds and call-overwriting strategies.
Topics:
- Introduction to Structured Products
- Shark Notes
- RC & BRC
This session introduces autocallable structures, focusing on the mechanics and payoff features of Athena and Phoenix notes, along with key structural variants.
Participants will examine scenario analysis, the role of maturity, and the impact of factors like interest-rate–equity correlation on pricing and behaviour.
We also cover risk analysis and hedging considerations, giving attendees a practical and intuitive understanding of these cornerstone structured products.
Topics:
- Autocallables
Topics:
- Volatility Target Indices
- Variance Swaps
- CPPI
- Accumulators / Decumulators
- Dropback Notes
- Gap Risk
TOOLS TO SUPPORT LEARNING
Every program/training includes FULL ACCESS to our digital learning platform designed for practice, flexibility, and autonomy.
> 550+ Q&A updated with market insights
> Interactive Pricers & E-book
> Educational Videos on Derivatives and Structured Products
> Self-assessment Quizzes
> Weekly Courses & curated Resources
We can also provide selective access to specific tools or deliver a fully WHITELABELED platform, branded with your company’s identity, for your employees.
OUR VISION
At Derivatives Academy, our mission is to build long-term partnerships with financial teams that want to grow their people, not just their performance.
We believe learning isn’t a cost. It’s an investment in trust, engagement, and innovation the pillars of every high-performing desk.
“People are the foundation of every successful trading floor.”
Maxime de Bellefroid, Founder of Derivatives Academy