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.
WHAT WE DO
A continuous learning partnership, from onboarding to mastery.
We build learning ecosystems that grow with your teams.
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 experiences that 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.
🧭 Onboarding Acceleration
Accelerate integration and make new joiners productive faster with programs fully aligned with your products, markets, and internal processes.
📈 Technical Mastery
Deep, hands-on courses on Derivatives and Structured Products designed to strengthen expertise, reinforce execution confidence, and support long-term talent development.
🔁 Continuous Learning Partnership
We build long-term learning partnerships that evolve with your business combining modular training plans, coaching, and digital resources to keep teams sharp and connected.
🤝 Collaborative Workshops
Interactive, desk-specific sessions that enhance communication, break silos, and create alignment across trading, structuring, and sales teams.
NEXT STEP:
Let’s design 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 creates a positive knowledge loop inside your organization:
Better learning → Better communication → Stronger teams → Better results → Higher retention → Easier recruitment
It’s a culture multiplier:
when teams see that learning is valued, they invest in themselves and in each other.
POPULAR PROGRAMS
All our trainings include Lifetime Access to our digital learning platform!
For: Private bankers, wealth managers, financial advisors, distributors.
Coverage:
> Capital protection, yield enhancement, and participation structures
> Product lifecycle: issuer, wrapper, underlying, payoff
> Client communication and suitability
> Reading term sheets and understanding scenarios
Perfect for: Enabling confident client conversations and successful deal closing.
For: Cross-asset structurers, multi-asset sales, portfolio managers
Coverage:
> Hybrid products combining equities, rates, FX, and commodities
> Cross-asset correlation and volatility arbitrage
> Multi-theme or ESG-linked investment structures
> Portfolio-level risk management
Perfect for: Innovating across asset classes to serve diversified or thematic mandates.
For: Wealth managers, discretionary portfolio managers, family offices
Coverage:
> Capital-guaranteed notes, CPPI, Dropback Notes, and boosters
> Dynamic allocation between risky assets and cash
> Risk management and issuer diversification
Perfect for: Designing prudent strategies for risk-averse investors.
For: Risk officers, portfolio managers, ALM teams, auditors
Coverage:
> Measuring and managing risk exposures: delta, gamma, vega, rho
> Managing derivative portfolios and hedging non-linear risks
> Stress testing, VAR, backtesting methodologies
> Regulatory impact: IFRS 9, FRTB
Perfect for: Gaining a comprehensive view of risk in derivative portfolios.
For: New joiners in Sales, Trading, Structuring, and Middle Office.
Coverage:
> Fundamentals of financial markets and derivatives
> Desk workflows, key stakeholders, and risk management basics
> Introduction to structured products and pricing logic
> Real-case exercises to connect theory with execution
Perfect for: Accelerating integration and ensuring new hires speak the same “markets language” from day one.
For: Structuring, Sales, and Trading teams seeking to improve collaboration.
Coverage:
Simulation of product design and pricing in multi-desk setups
Interactive risk & payoff challenges
Communication and negotiation exercises
Joint debriefs to align product design with client needs
Perfect for: Strengthening desk cohesion and breaking silos through real-case learning experiences.
For: Junior professionals, students, sales assistants, compliance officers, middle office teams
Coverage:
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What derivatives are and how they work (forwards, futures, options, swaps)
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Exchange-traded vs. OTC markets
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Key market participants: hedgers, speculators, arbitrageurs
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Understanding payoffs, notionals, and margins
Perfect for: Building a solid foundation to interact confidently with trading, structuring, or sales teams.
For: Traders, structurers, quants, risk managers
Coverage:
> Exotic payoffs: barriers, digitals, autocallables, quanto products
> Volatility smile, local vol, correlation, and hybrid models
> Advanced pricing and risk management
> Proprietary index structuring and performance replication
Perfect for: Deepening technical expertise and designing sophisticated client solutions.
For: Sales, advisors, asset managers
Coverage:
> Conditional coupon products, autocallables, reverse convertibles
> Scenario analysis and payoff behavior
> Volatility sensitivity and market views
> Integration into yield-focused portfolios
Perfect for: Enhancing portfolio returns in stable or moderately bullish markets.
For: Corporate bankers, treasury advisors, DCM teams
Coverage:
> Interest rate, FX, and commodity hedging
> Swaps, caps, collars, FX options
> ISDA documentation and counterparty risk management
Perfect for: Supporting corporate clients in managing financial exposures effectively.
For: Asset managers, portfolio managers, fund operations, and compliance teams
Coverage:
> Integrating derivatives and structured products to diversify portfolios
> Overlay strategies for yield, protection, and tactical positioning
> Optimizing portfolio taxation through derivative instruments
> Operational setup and governance for derivative usage
Perfect for: Teams seeking to enhance portfolio diversification, improve after-tax performance, and align derivative strategies with fund mandates.
For: Junior structurers, product controllers, or client-facing teams joining Structured Products desks.
Coverage:
>Market conventions and structuring workflow
> From idea to issuance: payoff design, hedging, documentation
> Risk sensitivities, market data, and P&L drivers
> Understanding client needs and product suitability
Perfect for: Making new joiners operational faster and confident in internal and client discussions.
For: All markets professionals seeking to maintain technical and commercial excellence.
Coverage:
Monthly update sessions on product innovation and market trends
Micro-learning capsules on pricing, regulation, or macro drivers
Cross-asset workshops and case studies
Skill progression tracking and team performance dashboards
Perfect for: Keeping teams sharp and aligned with evolving market dynamics.
TOOLS TO SUPPORT LEARNING
All our trainings include LIFETIME ACCESS to our digital platform. A complete learning ecosystem designed for flexibility and practice.
> Practical Exercises with detailed explanations
> Self-assessment Quizzes
> Educational Videos on Derivatives and Structured Products
> Curated Resources and E-books
> Interactive Pricers and Simulator
Everythig our team needs to turn theory into real-world mastery!
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