Est. 2007 · Frankfurt, Germany · Trading Education Worldwide
For nearly two decades, Frankfurt Trading School has educated the professionals who move global capital — with academic rigor, industry intimacy, and an unwavering commitment to ethical markets.
Frankfurt Trading School was founded on a conviction: that rigorous trading education should not be the private preserve of investment bank graduate programs. We built an institution where a self-taught retail trader from Jakarta and a quantitative MSc from ETH Zürich would sit in the same room, guided by the same faculty.
Our mission is to prepare traders, analysts, and institutional strategists for careers in global capital markets — with the ethical grounding, technical depth, and credentials demanded by modern finance.
To cultivate disciplined, ethical, and analytically rigorous traders equipped to operate in the world's most complex financial markets.
To become the world's most trusted institution for professional trading education by 2030 — serving 100,000 alumni across 80 countries.
Evidence-based curriculum peer-reviewed by academic economists and trading practitioners.
Every program teaches compliance, risk, and ethics as foundational disciplines — not electives.
Cross-border classrooms, multi-jurisdictional case studies, and faculty from every major financial capital.
Our 48,000+ alumni network is an active, career-long resource — not a transactional credential.
Our 240+ faculty members combine academic credentials with deep market experience. Every instructor has spent at least five years on an institutional trading desk.
"We do not teach trading as a collection of rules to memorize. We teach it as a discipline — the same discipline that separates a professional from a gambler."
Prof. Richter joined Frankfurt Trading School as Dean of Faculty in 2018 after fifteen years leading rates strategy at Deutsche Bank and a prior tenure at the Bundesbank's open-market operations desk.
He holds a PhD in Economics from Goethe University Frankfurt and is the author of Term Structure Dynamics (MIT Press, 2019) — now standard reading at nine European MSc Finance programs.
Former Senior Trader, European Rates desk at Deutsche Bank. PhD Economics, Goethe University Frankfurt.
LinkedInFifteen years at Nomura and Millennium. PhD Mathematical Finance, Imperial College London. Specialist in volatility surface modeling.
LinkedInFormer Head of Emerging Markets FX, BNP Paribas Mumbai. MBA Wharton. Advisor to the Reserve Bank of India Technical Committee.
LinkedInFormer Chief Risk Officer at Société Générale. Authored Basel III consultation papers for the European Banking Authority.
LinkedInFormer Senior Economist, Bank of England. PhD Economics, LSE. Primary research in monetary policy transmission and yield curve analysis.
LinkedInTwelve years at Goldman Sachs London options desk. PhD Applied Mathematics, ETH Zürich. Co-author of the FTS Options Handbook.
LinkedInFormer CTO at Optiver Amsterdam. MSc Computer Science, TU Delft. Designs the FTS proprietary simulation platform.
LinkedInFormer MD at Citadel Securities. PhD Finance, Stanford GSB. Research focus on liquidity provision in electronic markets.
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FTS is a recognized continuing education provider for CFA, CFP, and FRM credential holders. Our credits are transferable to 180+ partner universities across Europe, Asia, and North America.
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