Our Experts

Dr. Beata Lubinska is a financial engineer with over 20 years of practical experience gained in international financial institutions such as GE Capital, Deloitte and Standard Chartered Bank based in Milan and London. 

Beata’s background is strongly focused on Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (“IRRBB”), Balance Sheet Management, Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) and behavioural modelling for banks asset liability management purposes. She spent most of her career managing IRRBB and FTP for a number of financial institutions.

Currently she leads the Treasury department at Allica Bank in London. In her previous position she was a Head of the Market and Liquidity Risk Department in MeDirect Group in London with the main focus on IRRBB, Market Risk and Balance Sheet Management. Beata is also a member of the BTRM Faculty founded by Professor Moorad Choudhry in London.


Beata holds a PhD in Finance from Wroclaw University of Economics. Her research publications have enjoyed strong reviews by academics and industry practitioners.

Beata is an author of the book “Asset Liability Management Optimization – A practitioner’s guide to balance sheet management and remodelling” published by Wiley & Sons Ltd in London and “Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book: A best Practice Guide to management and hedging”.

In addition, Beata is actively providing training for professionals from the banking industry in the UK, US, Middle East and Asia.

Her main areas of specialization include: Funds Transfer Pricing, Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book, Asset Liability Management and Balance Sheet management through FTP and optimization.

Mike started his financial career at Price Waterhouse (now PwC), auditing banks’ derivatives books and advising the Financial Services team on clients’ derivatives usage. 

He then moved to Barclays Capital, where he was responsible for Sales & Trading education.

After four years at Barclays Capital, Mike moved to Deutsche Bank, where he was Global Head of Financial Product Training at the Corporate & Investment Bank from 2001 to 2021, responsible for designing and implementing financial education strategy across all staff levels, including heading up the global graduate training team responsible for the markets, corporate finance, and transactions banking programs with up to 550 new graduates per year. 

He was also responsible for delivering financial training for Deutsche Bank’s clients as part of the Corporate & Investment Bank marketing effort – including corporate treasurers, asset managers, hedge funds, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and ministries of finance.



Mike also specialised in one-to-one consultative training on finance and derivatives for members of the Deutsche Bank Management Board and Supervisory Board.

Mike has a degree in Banking and Finance (B.A Hons), a PhD in Monetary Economics, is the author of two finance textbooks, and used to be an examiner for the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He teaches a finance elective on the Masters in Finance at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School. Mike has a flair and enthusiasm for teaching derivatives and asset management to diverse groups, from interns to graduates to managing directors and CEO’s. 

Maxime is a multifaceted professional whose career is driven by an insatiable thirst for discoveries and challenges. He embarked on his professional journey as an Equity Derivatives Structurer, where he discovered his passion for structured products.

During the rest of his career, Maxime has accumulated extensive experience in the field of derivatives and structured products, including developing proprietary indices and using derivatives to manage linear and non-linear risks for insurance companies and corporate clients.

In addition to his professional background, Maxime has maintained a passion for teaching and coaching. This dual focus on professional practice and education naturally led to the recent founding of Derivatives Academy, a company that blends learning, training and recruitment in the Derivatives space.

Maxime earned his Master in Finance from the Catholic University of Louvain and his specialised Master in Financial Engineering at the University of York.
His ebook “The Derivatives Academy” became a reference on equity structured products. The interconnections between his ebook and his exotic options pricers allow anyone to gain semi- practical knowledge within a fantastic pedagogical approach.

Every participants to Maxime’s training get access to Derivatives Academy’s collaborative learning platform.

Prof. Roy Ling is a Professional Board Director. Concurrently, he is also the Industrial Chair in Finance at VinUniversity, an Academic Program Director at SMU Academy and the CEO & Founder of FollowTrade.

Prof. Ling is a seasoned veteran with more than 20 years in investment banking with JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney. His expertise is in digital finance, sustainable investing and Asia real estate, and he had completed some of the highest-profile advisory and capital market transactions in the region. Prof. Ling is also a distinguished board director with more than 16 years of corporate governance experience across Asia. He was honored as the Real Estate Executive of the Year 2016 by Singapore Business Review, and as one of 20 Rising Stars in Real Estate 2008 by Institutional Investor.

Prof. Ling graduated from INSEAD with a Global EMBA and from the National University of Singapore with a BBA (Hons).

Salomon Sebbag is a highly accomplished financial markets professional with over three decades of expertise in interest rate derivatives trading, risk management, and emerging markets strategy.

He spent 27 years at JPMorgan, rising to Managing Director and leading major trading operations in London and Istanbul. During his tenure, he played a critical role in navigating both stable and crisis periods, trading a wide range of products, including FX spot & forwards, FRAs, IRS, OIS, basis swaps, cross-currency swaps, and bonds. He later took on leadership roles managing Turkey trading operations and serving as Head of EM FX Forwards Trading for EMEA, where he guided high-performing teams and drove significant market growth. Salomon also led weekly EM risk meetings at JPMorgan, ensuring effective risk management across the firm's emerging markets activities.

His trading expertise delivered outstanding results, including a personal record of $75 million in annual revenues during his best year at JPMorgan, with minimal drawdowns over his 30-year career. After JPMorgan, Salomon joined Morgan Stanley as a Senior Trader and Advisor, contributing to the firm’s emerging markets expansion with his strategic insights and disciplined approach.

Beyond trading, Salomon is a passionate educator, currently lecturing on Financial Markets at Cambridge Business School, Université Paris-Dauphine, and ESCP, the latter ranked among the world's best Master's in Finance programs.

He holds an engineering and computer science degree from École Centrale Paris and a finance degree from Université Paris-Dauphine. As a multilingual finance leader fluent in French, English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Arabic, he brings a truly global perspective to both trading and education.

With a legacy of market leadership, strategic innovation, and knowledge-sharing, Salomon Sebbag continues to shape the future of financial markets and inspire the next generation of finance professionals.