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Financial Techniques recertification seminar: the experience of lecturer Florent Rabilloud
October 3, 2025
On the occasion of the Financial Techniques recertification seminar, Florent Rabilloud, a lecturer at ISFB for the past 10 years, shares his experience. Combining practical teaching, enriching exchanges and a human-centered approach, he explains how this program helps to strengthen the skills of banking and wealth management professionals.
Florent Rabilloud, you are a lecturer at ISFB, where you teach the Financial Techniques recertification seminar. Can you tell us about your experience as a lecturer?
I've been lucky enough to be a lecturer at the ISFB for 10 years now. I also worked for Credit Suisse for many years.
To date, this represents a considerable number of hours spent in the company of people who have come to learn with very different expectations. Trying to meet them is always a real pleasure.
To be perfectly frank, I think I learn as much as the participants during these moments of exchange.
The human contact created during these sessions enables us to share our knowledge, points of view and experience in order to achieve the objectives set at the beginning of the session.
As you may have gathered, I'm not a fan of lectures and long monologues. The heart of my work is an exchange based on concrete examples and relationships with others.
Can you tell us about your academic and professional background?
I wasn't very academic, to put it mildly. I quickly decided to do a commercial apprenticeship, but definitely not in a bank! I was too afraid of getting bored... The rest proved me wrong!
At the start of my career, I worked in sectors as diverse as the automotive industry, advertising, marketing, bureaux de change... But if all roads lead to Rome, in Geneva they very often lead to the bank.
For me, it was Credit Suisse where, for 20 years, I had the opportunity to work alongside inspiring people who were very different from me. These differences opened up new horizons that enriched me. I can only thank my customers, colleagues and managers for these valuable lessons.
I'm not going to list all the jobs I've done - it might sound like a laundry list - but they've all been centered on human relationships. Even today, it's this closeness to my customers and colleagues that motivates me on a daily basis.
What are the main difficulties encountered by banking and wealth management professionals today that make this type of skills update necessary?
Flexibility and the ability to accept change. In our wealth management business, every day is a new challenge. We have to adapt to a rapidly changing environment: in terms of advice, regulations and tools, as well as the increasingly high expectations of our customers.
That's why it's essential to continue training throughout our career.
The Financial Techniques recertification seminar will begin shortly (November 2025). How can this program offer concrete solutions? What, in your opinion, are the strengths and specific features that make this program so rich and valuable?
The high quality of ISFB's training courses is once again confirmed.
The Financial Techniques re-certification seminar is no exception to this rule, providing an effective update on developments in financial techniques covering the entire spectrum of our business, from portfolio optimization to alternative investments and credit solutions.
But beyond the content, we'll benefit from what makes ISFB training such a strength: enriching exchanges based on the experience of professionals with varied backgrounds, working in different institutions within a common sector.
I'm convinced that sharing our points of view can only add real value to our daily lives and career paths.
