Francesca Taylor is the principal of Taylor Associates, one of the City’s leading financial training companies, specializing in derivatives, capital markets, risk and treasury training. She has personally trained in major UK and international corporations, American, European and UK banks and derivatives houses.
Francesca's career began with BICC plc where she learned her basic treasury, FX and money market skills - from the client's perspective. She then joined Midland Bank and became team leader in the Financial Engineering Group. She spent 12 months with Midland Futures, broking financial futures to a range of major financial institutions. In addition, it was Francesca's responsibility to educate and train Midland's client base in the uses and applications of a growing number of derivative products.
Francesca then became an interbank swap broker and a treasury consultant advising her clients on all aspects of currency and interest rate risk management. During her career Francesca has followed each of the four major areas within banking and finance. She has been a corporate, a banker, a broker and a consultant, leading her to be ideally placed to offer independent training and product education to clients.
Her company, Taylor Associates, has been highly successful and now offers a wide range of treasury, risk, general finance and complementary soft-skills courses to banks and non-banks alike. Francesca works closely with banks, corporations and the ACI, and has spoken at major conferences in the UK, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia foreign exchange & currency options.
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