Stephen Cosham

Steve is a seasoned financial training professional with over 21 years of international experience having to date trained in 37 countries. He has been responsible for structuring, writing, and delivering financial training to commercial banks, investment banks, supranational entities, regulators, and universities.

Steve has trained extensively in the Middle East, most recently in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia where he delivered multiple programmes on a range of financial topics including retail banking, corporate banking, capital markets, derivatives, and trade finance.

Steve has written distance learning programmes relating to financial markets and transaction banking in in association with several academic institutions.

Steve is a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance.

Before his training career, Steve had 23 years of banking experience, 14 years of which were overseas. His banking career began in 1975, at NatWest working both within the branch network and Financial Control. In 1979, he accepted an RAF commission training as a pilot. Steve returned to banking in 1982 with the MB Group of Marine Midland Bank, (now HSBC), moving to New York in 1984 to establish a trading desk for syndicated loans. Later as Director assuming responsibility for the liquidation of the EM portfolio for the HSBC group. In 1990, he joined Citibank, on the EM sales desk. He transferred to Hong Kong in 1992 establishing an Asian EM sales desk. Later, as a managing director, he assumed responsibility for security sales in North Asia. He returned to London in 1998, managing the EM market syndicate desk at Citigroup.