FIM’s seasoned international faculty from LSB is comprised of globally recognized practitioner educators who have all held critical financial sector senior leadership positions (including C suite roles) in retail banking, capital markets, insurance, investment funds, private banking, and venture capital. Our faculty members are passionate about sharing their extensive practical knowledge to engage our students, so that they can develop a deep understanding of the intricacies of the financial industry, navigate risk, and optimize performance and innovation.

Pierre-Antoine Boulat, PhD – Lecturer of Risk Management & Private Banking

Former CEO of UBS Fund Services (Luxembourg) SA and Head of the UBS Luxembourg Asset Servicing Institutional Desks, Pierre-Antoine has had a long and diverse career in capital markets, banks (CCF, Paris), brokers (Salomon Brothers), institutional asset managers (JP Morgan, Citigroup, and UBS), FinTech (TradingScreen), and asset servicing (Northern Trust UK). He holds a PhD in business law from Paris-Pantheon-Assas University.

Emiliano Luzzi, MBA – Lecturer of Insurance

Emiliano is the insurance consulting practice leader of EY Luxembourg. He dedicates most of his time to helping (re)insurance carriers transform and reshape their business models. He has roughly two decades of experience working with large organizations across three continents, leading many initiatives aimed at driving large-scale transformations, cost optimization, and organizational change to step-shift companies’ performance. He holds his MS in engineering from the University of Pisa, and his MBA from IE Business School.

Ezechiel Havrenne, LLM – Lecturer of Investment Funds

A talented lawyer, Ezechiel now leads investment funds with a focus on private equity assets in the luxury segment and private debt with a FinTech component. He is the editor in-chief of Investment Management Review and co-editor-in-chief of the European Investment Fund Review. He received his LLM degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a law degree with honors from the University of Louvain (Belgium).

George Paresishvili, MBA – Lecturer of Investment Management & Capital Markets

George has nearly three decades of experience working on Wall Street, in the City of London, and in emerging markets in areas such as stock exchanges, securities trading, clearing and settlement, brokerage, and investment banking. In 2021 to 2022, he conducted USAID-funded consulting projects in Central Asia to develop local capital markets by providing recommendations and drafting regulations for the development of local securities markets. He currently serves as the CEO of the Tashkent Stock Exchange and an Independent Board Member of Mikrokreditbank in Uzbekistan. George’s MBA was awarded by the University of Michigan Ross Business School, and he earned his BS in
Economics with distinction from Tbilisi State University.

Kevin Sweeney, JD, MBA – FIM Academic Director & Lecturer of Banking

Kevin is practitioner and educator with over 30 years of experience in the financial sector, FinTech, corporate and entrepreneurial finance, and social enterprises. He was the CEO of a nonprofit real estate and regional economic development organization in the United States. He was also a senior executive for nearly two decades at MassMutual Financial Group, where he managed strategic initiatives in the US, Luxembourg, the UK, Hong Kong, Japan, and Chile. He has served on several financial sector corporate boards internationally, and he is also a member of the faculties of various US academic institutions currently teaching corporate finance at Columbia University and entrepreneurship and finance at both Babson College and Suffolk University. Kevin earned his JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School, and his MBA jointly from the New York University – Stern School of Business, the London School of Economics, and HEC – Paris.

FIM Curriculum – Financial Industry Management (FICP Designation)

Chapter-by-Chapter Curriculum

The FIM curriculum consists of five seven-to-nine-week online “Chapters”. The curriculum of each Chapter addresses pressing strategic and operational challenges of the financial sector, including customer engagement, regulatory compliance, financial management, competition, and digital transformation.

Banking

· Retail, corporate, private, and other banking

· Products and services

• Credit
• Lending
• Deposits

· Operations

· Regulation and compliance

· Digital transformation, banking alternatives, and FinTech

Alternative Investment Funds

· Asset management and servicing

· Fund structuring

· Types of funds (e.g., UCITS, SIF, SICAR)

· Regulation and compliance

· Alternative investment funds

· Risk management

Investment Management and Capital Markets

· Underwriting

• IPOs
• M&A

· Sales

· Trading

· Family offices

Insurance

· Types of insurance

• Property & casualty
• Life insurance
• Annuities
• Retirement

· Insurance brokerage

· Insurance underwriting

· Finance and insurance

· Regulation and compliance

· Reinsurance

Strategy, Innovation & Oversight

· Digital and other transformative trends in finance

• FinTech
• InsurTech
• RegTech

· Innovation and design thinking in the financial sector

· Regulation and compliance

· Governance

· Strategic considerations for innovation

Financial Industry Certified Professional (FICP)

Upon successful completion of the Financial Industry Management (FIM) program, students earn a formal certificate of completion along with the Financial Industry Certified Professional (FICP) professional designation awarded by the Luxembourg School of Business (LSB). This credential recognizes the graduates’ participation in this rigorous program and their successful mastery of the essential operational, management, and innovation skills that financial sector stakeholders demand.

To receive the formal certificate of completion and associated FICP professional designation, FIM program participants must finish all five chapters (courses) of the program and all chapter-related assignments with a faculty-evaluated and assigned “Complete” grade.

The five required chapters of the FIM program are:

· Banking

· Investment Management & Funds

· Capital Markets

· Insurance

· Strategy, Innovation & Oversight

The FICP designation also entitles the recipient to continued learning and professional networking opportunities with LSB faculty, FIM Program alumni, and recognized industry leaders. Additional certifications and advanced FICP designations may subsequently be earned based completion of other LSB FIM-related programs offered by LSB.

FIM Program is delivered through Online live classes using the latest technology and methodologies. Luxembourg School of Business uses the learning management software (LMS) called Canvas also used by Penn State, Cornnell, Duke and many other top universities. Program also employs various simulations service provides like Cesim. Those enable candidates to compete and get a chance to implement their strategies in a real world based simulations. Books are also provided within the program as the reading materials but the focus is on the case study method. FIM is using Harvard Business Review (HBR) as a main source of cases for the candidates to solve. These are usually done in teams, just like in the LSB’s MBA program.

Financial Industry Management (FIM) classes take place Online, on Thursdays between 18:00 and 20:00 (sometimes 21:00) CET.

Besides that, candidates can expect 2 to 5 hours of cumulative reading, assignments and teamwork per week. Exceptional candidates or those with significant experience in finance sector can expect to be finished with the workload in less time each week.

Participation in classes is mandatory and contributes towards the ECTS progression. Should the candidate be unable to attend due to work, health or other urgent circumstance, a report has to be made to the program administration. In that case the candidate is required to review the class recording. Class recordings will always be provided on learning management software (LMS).

Admission Process

We are looking for ambitious professionals who possess a number of key qualities: strong intellectual ability, academic capacity, leadership, and initiative. The scope of the program focuses on finance as a business and delivers insight into how each individual piece of that industry works and interacts with others. This knowledge is crucial for management as well as the development of new businesses in finance. In order to be able to learn on that level, this program starts with the assumption of a certain level of knowledge of finance.

This program doesn’t have any diploma requirements to participate. However, you will be required to complete the following steps in order to be admitted. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to henry.applegate@luxsb.lu.

Here are the admission steps:

• Advising appointment with advisor (optional)
• Pre-Application (optional)
• Application
• Informational interview and academic review
• Payment of the program fee
• The participant receives an onboarding package with all the information required, as well as a detailed guide on how to participate in the online program

The admissions have started, get in touch with our team to be part of the program.

Book Appointment with Advisor

The total price of this program is 9000,00 EUR VAT included.

The fee paid toward the FIM program can also be deducted from the LSB’s Weekend MBA and Full Time MBA programs. These programs are complementary and typically offer synergistic career advantages to candidates who complete both. The programs are also designed so that they can be attended concurrently, as many candidates choose to do so.