Role
Solomon is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Nottingham Business School and Course Leader for the MSc Finance suite.
As the Bloomberg Academic Lead, he embeds the Bloomberg Terminal in teaching and research across the department. He teaches Global Financial Markets, Financial Modelling and Research Methods on postgraduate courses, and supervises consultancy projects, business research projects and doctoral students. He is Chief External Examiner at Coventry University London and External Examiner for the MSc Finance and MAccFin programmes at Bournemouth University.
Career overview
Solomon began his career as a Junior Accountant in Accra, Ghana, before completing an MSc in Financial Management at the University of Hull. He then moved to London as a Billings Analyst at The Economist Group, followed by a role as a Redress Analyst at Deloitte. He later returned to Hull to complete a PhD in Finance. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a CFA Charterholder.
Research areas
Solomon’s research spans banking and household finance. The first strand examines securitisation and bank lending, including asset-backed securities, CLOs and shadow banking. The second strand examines household access to finance, covering financial exclusion, consumer credit and financial literacy.
Sponsors and collaborators
- Dr Alper Kara
- Professor Philip Molyneux
- Dr David Marques Ibanez
Publications
Deku, S.Y. and Morris, D., 2025. Climate change and the rise of shadow banking: a global analysis. International Review of Financial Analysis, 104(A), p.104275.
Menkveld, A.J. et al., 2024. Non-standard errors. The Journal of Finance, 79(3), pp.2339-2390.
Deku, S.Y., Kara, A., Smith, K. and Xia, M., 2021. Ethnic minorities’ access to mortgages in the UK: the undesirable impact of the Great Financial Crisis. Finance Research Letters, 43, p.102183.
Deku, S.Y., Kara, A. and Karimov, N., 2021. Do investors value frequent issuers in securitization? Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 57, pp.1247-1282.
Deku, S.Y., Kara, A. and Zhou, Y., 2019. Securitization, bank behaviour and financial stability: a systematic review of the recent empirical literature. International Review of Financial Analysis, 61, pp.245-254.
Deku, S.Y. and Kara, A., 2017. Securitization: past, present and future. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Deku, S.Y., Kara, A. and Molyneux, P., 2016. Access to consumer credit in the UK. The European Journal of Finance, 22(10), pp.941-964.