Alex has spent close to twenty years working in the financial markets. For the majority of that period he was at Natwest trading a variety of fixed income products within all sectors ranging from double A to emerging Asian sovereigns. He also traded derivative products including credit default swaps and covered bonds.  He also has experience in asset and liability risk management gained at ANZ, which is where he also started his career as a trainer.

Mike is a specialist in the field of financial services operations.  He was previously Head of Fixed Income Operations at Warburg Securities, and has been delivering operations focused training courses to buy-side firms, sell-side firms, management consultants and custodians to those within both operations and technology divisions, for over 15 years. He teaches on a wide range of operations topics, including elementary banking operations.

Neil was previously global head of financial market training at Barclays Capital.  He teaches primarily on the rates business, covering all of the major asset classes and their respective derivative products from foreign exchange through to commodities.  He is author of two books, Commodity Derivatives: Markets and Applications” and “Trading the Fixed Income, Inflation and Credit Markets”.

David Hayes is a very experienced trader, practitioner and trainer. He has been employed in senior Treasury positions within both banks and multi-national corporates. David has over twenty years trading experience covering a whole range of financial instruments, derivatives and markets. He is currently CEO of Risk Manager Group, a training company that offers classroom programmes, spreadsheet model e-learning and trading simulations.