The City & Financial Markets - Introduction
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Cost for BPP PD Members:
£390.00 + VAT : 6 CPD Hours
(£490.00 + VAT for non BPP PD Members - Click here for details of our membership scheme.)
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Course level
Introductory
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This course will be of benefit to those who are a new, recent or potential recruit to the financial services industry with little or no knowledge of the City. If you wish to gain a good understanding of financial instruments and the markets on which they trade, then this intensive one-day course is for you.
Overview
At its heart, the City is a market place just like any other. But, it can often seem so much more complicated than that.This intensive one-day course introduces, in a logical and jargon-free way, the basic structure and operations of the City's financial markets. No prior knowledge of the City or financial markets is assumed.
Learning outcomes include obtaining a greater understanding of:
- Financial Risks Faced by Companies and how the City can mitigate them
- The Players - A Description of the Functions of:
- Investment banks
- Commercial banks
- Private banks
- Hedge funds
- Other financial institutions
- Role of the Central Bankand Regulator
- What does the Central Bank do?
- Role of the Financial Services Authority (FSA)
- Currency and Money Markets
- Currency market - Spot and forward
- Money markets - T-bills, bank bills, certificates of deposit and repos
- Interest rates - Process of setting rates and implications for the macroeconomy
- Interest rate swaps
- Bond market
- UK gilts
- Yield and yield curve
- Corporate bonds
- Ratings agencies
- Warrants and convertibles
- Eurobonds
- Equity markets
- Nature of shares - Ordinary and preference
- Primary market - New issues of equities
- Secondary market trading
- Market indices
- Investor ratios - Earnings per share, Price/Earnings ratio
- Introduction to derivatives
- Futures - Definition and terminology, using futures: speculators/hedgers
- Options - Definition and terminology, simple uses of options: calls and puts
- Insurance and shipping markets
- Lloyd's of London
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14 Dec 2020 |
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12 Jan 2020 |
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01 Feb 2020 |
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26 Feb 2020 |
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23 Mar 2020 |
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17 Apr 2020 |
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10 May 2020 |
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06 Jun 2020 |
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29 Jun 2020 |
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23 Jul 2020 |
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15 Aug 2020 |
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14 Sep 2020 |
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04 Oct 2020 |
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29 Oct 2020 |
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20 Nov 2020 |
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14 Dec 2020 |
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