The Dealingroom is the first and only book that provides insight into exactly how banks and hedge funds make their money trading complex financial products. This is taken from the viewpoint/perspective of the trader/dealer and not from the customer to whom the product has been sold.

A trader continuously buys and sells financial products such as stocks and bonds, structuring them in combinations to create more complex products such as synthetics, turbos, interest rate swaps, bond swaps, equi...

The Financial Markets Professional training is a post-graduate training that is provided to personnel of banks and other financial institutions with the aim of providing them insight into the workings of a dealing room: which business lines exist within the dealingroom; per business line, which desks are recognized; per desk, which products are traded; and per product, how are these products traded, the processes around trading, which parties are involved, which systems are used for each prod...

The Financial Markets Professional training is provided by TLM Academy and the University of Amsterdam. The training has been given within the top tier banks in the Netherlands since 2009. The training course consists of fourteen modules of three hours each. If the FiMa exam is passed the participant receives a certification as Financial Markets Professional.

The FiMa certificate is a post-graduate diploma from the University of Amsterdam which results in a registration in the worldwide FiMa...

In de jaren na de kredietcrisis hebben financiële instellingen het nieuws gedomineerd en vaak op negatieve wijze. De oorzaak van de kredietcrisis lag, zoals inmiddels bekend, niet in de reguliere, traditionele dienstverlening van banken, maar lag in het trading-bedrijf (het voor eigen rekening handelen in complexe financiële producten.

De Dealingroom is het eerste en enige boek dat inzicht geeft in hoe banken en hedgefunds precies hun geld verdienen met de handel in deze complexe producte...