How the Financial Markets Really Work
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How the Financial Markets Really Work

Background
Financial Markets and their jargon can be really confusing to those not involved. This one day course gives a concise and effective overview as to what the Financial Markets are and the nature of their main products for those with no prior knowledge.

Delegates 
- IT, HR and other specialists new to the City 
- New staff in Financial Institutions

Overview and Introduction 
- Functions of the world’s Financial Markets – Transferring Funds and Risk 
- What are efficient Markets? Markets as forward discounting mechanisms 
- Role of the Regulator 
- Sell-Side (Investment Banks) vs Buy-Side (Institutional Investors)

Foreign Exchange Markets 
- Overview and scale of the FX markets 
- Currency Popularity - Dollars, Euro, Sterling, Yen. 
- Spot, Cross and Forward Exchange rates; Interest Rates and Carry Trades

The Bond Markets 
- Fixed Income basics – what is a Bond exactly? 
- The importance of Sovereign Debt Markets, Risk free investing? 
- Bond Pricing – Coupons and Yields 
- Sub-Prime & the Credit Crunch explained 
- Corporate Bonds and Credit Ratings – importance of the Rating Agencies

The Equity Markets 
- Equities in context – Shareholders at the end of the food chain 
- Corporate actions in the secondary markets – Share Splits, Rights Issues 
- What makes shares go up and down? 
- Equity Pricing explained – Price/Earnings Ratios, Dividend Yields

Commodities and Derivatives Markets - Options, Swaps, Futures 
- Derivatives, what are they exactly? Exchange Traded vs OTC 
- Options - Terminology, for Hedging or Speculation? 
- Swaps - Interest Rate and Credit Default swaps; importance of counterparty risk 
- Futures - Margin requirements and Leverage - Risk and exposure, role of the Clearing House

Duration:
1 day

 
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Duration1 day
 
£380
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