Derivatives Unlocked

Derivatives Unlocked: A Practitioner's Perspective offers the reader a practical explanation of the key concepts underpinning financial derivatives. Resolutely selective and user-friendly, this book constitutes an introduction to the basic pricing, design and use cases of derivatives products in modern global finance.

Auteur

Philippe Dufournier has spent over 30 years in investment banking in London with a career focused on the structuring, sales and origination of innovative derivatives and capital markets transactions for European corporates and financial institutions.

Throughout the 1990's, he gained significant expertise in derivatives structuring and sales whilst at Bankers Trust in London, a pioneer of the global derivatives markets. He joined Lehman Brothers in 2001 as Head of European Derivatives Structuring and Sales where he founded the Structured Solutions Group. In 2007, he was made Head of Global Finance for EMEA, in charge of Primary Markets Origination and Private Derivatives Solutions. He kept that role as he transitioned to Nomura International in 2008. In 2015 he joined Mediobanca, first as Head of Corporate Lending and Acquisition Finance and then as Head of the UK Branch until 2020.

During his career, Philippe directly contributed to the training and mentoring of over 20 classes of summer interns, analysts and associates. Over the last 3 years, he has been teaching financial derivatives courses in the Finance Masters of the Institute for Finance and Technology at University College London.