- Overview of Financial Markets Types:
- Difference between exchange-traded and OTC markets and their uses.
- Advantages and disadvantage of exchanges and OTC markets.
- Settlement processes and Central Clearing.
- Money Market and Foreign Exchange Markets and Products:
- Cash instruments and markets.
- Repo markets .
- FX instruments and markets.
- Case study and exercises.
- Bonds :
- Bonds types (by issuer and by coupon payment and other features) .
- Bonds market and trade execution .
- Valuation of bonds.
- Bond sensitivity.
- Practical exercise on bonds valuation and sensitivities.
- Equities and Commodities Markets:
- Types of equities.
- Equity indices .
- Types of commodities.
- Practical exercise on equities valuation and sensitivities .
- Introduction to Derivatives:
- Overview of the products and markets.
- Forward and futures contracts and markets.
- Swaps contracts and markets.
- Options contracts and markets .
- Credit derivatives contracts and markets .
- Cases study.