What People Say about LFS - Your feedback

At the end of each course, all participants are asked to complete a feedback form. This enables us to continuously refine our courses to take into account participants' objectives and suggestions. If you would like to add any comments about our curriculum, or LFS as a whole, please click here.

The following are verbatim comments from people attending recent courses:

Market Abuse and Trade Surveillance* Definitely a prerequisite training course before setting up or reviewing a trade surveillance tool! Chriszinda Immelman, JSE Equity and Bonds Compliance Officer Market Abuse and Trade Surveillance* Great teaching with an inspiring presentation! Aurelija Jovaisaite, Associate Compliance Officer Advanced Bank Liquidity Management Rupesh is an excellent teacher. He offered lots of practical exercises and a clear explanation of the topic [Advanced Bank Liquidity Management]. Peter Hancz, Transaction Management Analyst Electronic Trading and Algorithmic Execution* This was a great course with well balanced content. It combined algorithmic trading strategy, regulatory landscape as well as opportunities to learn about historical market events in the e-trading space. It caters to a broad spectrum of attendees from different backgrounds who are interested in developing their understanding of the trading business. Sumathy Rajanayagam, Projects and Business Analysis Lead Interest Rate Derivatives and Swaps I advise this course to anyone who wants to discover/rediscover a passion for maths and theoretics of Derivatives. The teacher was amazing, able to keep my attention over three days of an intense course. Strongly enthusiastic about it! Caterina Bitti, Repo and IRS trader Strategic Asset Liability Management Mr. Taylor is a great teacher, he answers every single question and has an in-depth knowledge of ALM. On the other hand, the course has a right balance between theory and practical applications. Victor Wichi, Senior Officer Strategic Asset Liability Management Great perspective by the best team I have had the pleasure of learning from. Peter P. Domasky, Unknown Market Abuse and Trade Surveillance* Good and useful course. Very professional teacher. Chiara Maria Rallo, Advanced Senior Compliance Officer Advanced Bank Liquidity Management After 2 courses in the last 8 years, LFS is still one of the first places I would look at in search of professional financial learning. Catherine Ng, Portfolio Analyst Derivatives Accounting IFRS9 The sheer simplicity of instruction and usage of material was ultra brilliant and enabled me to comprehend the material. Ravishanker Sunderam, Financial Analyst, CTR Bilateral Margining and Central Clearing The course met all of my expectations and much more! The course content was quite accessible and offered excellent coverage of bilateral margining and central clearing with real life applications and examples. Highly recommend it! Rukundo (Aimee) Kanyankogote, Specialist Strategic Asset Liability Management I would highly recommend this course. The teacher can move with ease from financial terminology to mathematical implementations to prove financial models and concepts. Guillermina Claudia Martinez Hernandez, Senior ALM Officer Volatility: Trading and Managing Risk The course was of a very high quality with practical examples. I highly recommend it. Mawdoud Bacar, Risk Control Interest Rate Derivatives and Swaps IRD was a very interesting course. It's an efficient combination of both theoretical and real cases which allow us to have a deeper understanding of the technical things in our daily jobs (PM, traders, etc.). Victor Bouron, Asset & Liability Management Officer Interest Rate Derivatives and Swaps I am very satisfied with my course at LFS! The Interest Rate Derivatives I course covered a lot of different subjects, from understanding different benchmark curves and bootstrapping to the technicalities behind valuing derivatives itself. The trainer explained the material very clearly, and even though the training was digital, it was still interactive, and there was enough room for questions. Floortje Merten, Fixed Income Strategist

Regular Clients

The following is a selection of organisations who, over the years and around the world, have been some of our most frequent customers:

ABN Amro
Abu Dhabi Investment Council
Accenture Consulting

Bancolombia
Banca d’Italia
Banca Intesa
Bank of England
Bank of Greece
Bank of Lithuania
Bank for International Settlements    
BNP Paribas
Barclays Bank
Bayerische Landesbank
Bluecrest Capital
Borsa Italiana
BP Finance

Citibank
Commerzbank
Credit Agricole
Credit Suisse

Danske Bank
Deloitte & Touche
Dexia Bank
Deutsche Bank

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Central Bank

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Financial Services Authority

Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd.
Handelsbanken
HSBC
HSH Nordbank

IFC
ING Bank
Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis
Intesa Sanpaolo
Investec

JP Morgan
KPMG
Kredietbank
Kuwait Investment Authority

Latin America Reserve Fund
Lloyds TSB

Markit
Mediobanca
Merrill Lynch
Mizuho
Moody’s
Morgan Stanley
Moscow Narodny Bank Ltd.

NatWest
National Commercial Bank
NCB Capital
NM Rothschild & Sons
Nomura International
Nordea

OTPP
Oman International Bank
Pohjola Bank

Rabobank
Raiffeisen Bank
RAS Asset Management 
Royal Bank of Canada
Royal Bank of Scotland

Santander
Scotia Bank
SEB Investment Management
Societe Generale
Standard Chartered Bank
Standard Bank
State Street 

Tapiola Asset Management
Tapiola Pension Fund
Toronto Dominion Securities

UBS
UK Debt Management Office
Unicredit
Unilever
United Bank of Kuwait
United Kingdom Debt Management Office

West LB
World Bank
World Gold Council

Yapi Kredi
Zurich Kantonalbank