Rolf Steffens has founded Isar Financial Partners in 2014 initially for his business activities in the German speaking countries. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in international banking business and has spent large parts of his career in London. Most recently, he was a partner at Aybrook Financial Partners in London and Dublin. Prior positions included Member of the Management Board and Head of Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities (FICC) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as Head of Asset & Liability Management for the EMEA Region at Merrill Lynch International, Head of Integrated Credit Trading for German-speaking countries at Deutsche Bank and Global Head of Credit Structuring at the HSBC Group. He has lead teams in London, Frankfurt, New York and Hong Kong. At Deloitte & Touche he was able to gain experience in banking auditing and consulting. Rolf is a trained banker and holds a diploma in business administration of the University of Applied Sciences at Koblenz. He is a member of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association as well as the German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce and has, among other things, the Islamic Finance Qualification of SII (now CISI) and ESA. Rolf lectures at Munich Business School and FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management and frequently holds seminars, among others, at Hochschule Karlsruhe and RWTH Aachen. He has been retained as court appointed independent expert in international litigation cases and is currently also non-executive board member at Onpex S.A., a Luxembourg based payment institution.