The Dealingroom is the first and only book that provides insight into exactly how banks and hedge funds make their money trading complex financial products. This is taken from the viewpoint/perspective of the trader/dealer and not from the customer to whom the product has been sold.

A trader continuously buys and sells financial products such as stocks and bonds, structuring them in combinations to create more complex products such as synthetics, turbos, interest rate swaps, bond swaps, equi...

This book covers the relation between various groups of people that have a stake in a corporation, called stakeholders. Understanding this relation is important when defining the set of rules that ensure that the corporation is well governed, in short ‘Corporate Governance’.

The question “What is good Corporate Governance?” is more difficult to answer than the question “Can you give an example of bad Corporate Governance?” Some infamous cases are those of Enron, Worldcom, Parmal...

The Financial Markets Professional training is provided by TLM Academy and the University of Amsterdam. The training has been given within the top tier banks in the Netherlands since 2009. The training course consists of fourteen modules of three hours each. If the FiMa exam is passed the participant receives a certification as Financial Markets Professional.

The FiMa certificate is a post-graduate diploma from the University of Amsterdam which results in a registration in the worldwide FiMa...

From Gold to Code is a literary documentary on the evolution of trust. From the solidity of gold to the abstraction of fiat, from the rebellion of Bitcoin to the central control of CBDCs. It traces how money transformed from metal to paper, from promise to algorithm, mirroring humanity’s shifting faith in power, value, and belief itself. Through centuries of crises, empires rising on gold, collapsing under debt, reviving through digital illusion, the book explores how societies replaced tan...

It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner introduced the breaking idea 'threefolding' of human life. The fundamentals are autonomy of cultural life (based on freedom), social life (based on equality), and economic life (based on brotherhood). He repeatedly emphasized that the threefolding of the social organism is absolutely necessary for the future of our society. Otherwise we inevitably face cultural death and social chaos. During his life Steiner did his utmost to realise this, but he exp...