CAPITAL MARKETS &DERIVATIVES TRAINING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment
- Expert
Alan Burr has over 40 years' international experience of financial markets. He specialises in the securities and derivatives industry, with particular expertise in trading, operations, regulation, risk management, corporate governance, clearing and settlement. He has substantial executive experience with clearing houses, exchanges, international markets and in the management of IT. He is recognised as a leading authority in the field of investment operations and risk management.
Alan is an expert on derivatives, commodities, foreign exchange, fixed income and equities and has contributed to and led many projects to introduce new exchanges. Alan regularly provides education on all aspects of investment operations for examination and general educational purposes.
He worked for ICCH (now LCH.Clearnet) as Chief Executive in Hong Kong and Executive Director in London and then for MEFF, the Spanish Financial Futures Exchange.
Alan is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment(CISI). He is a CISI accredited trainer and examiner.
Paul Kitching is the principal of the business supported closely by Alan Burr. They both have extensive capital markets and derivatives experience together with an educational background.
Paul began his career with Ernst & Young, where he became an associate of the Institute of Taxation, and specialised in the taxation of complex financial instruments. He subsequently moved into corporate treasury becoming a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT).
Following a Quantitative Finance Master's degree at Imperial College, London, he joined the London International Futures & Options Exchange (now, ICE Europe) in their Education Department, before becoming Head of Interest Rate Product Development at the Exchange.