Description
This course builds foundational knowledge of financial instruments, credit dynamics, market institutions, and valuation basics. It prepares learners to move from descriptive knowledge to analytical application.
What you will learn
- Identify the roles of central banks, investment banks, and capital markets.
- Explain how markets facilitate capital formation and risk distribution.
- Analyse how technology reshapes traditional financial ecosystems.
- Differentiate between money market and long-term debt instruments.
- Calculate bond prices and yields using industry methods.
- Evaluate a bond’s sensitivity to interest rate changes.
- Describe how credit ratings are assigned and revised.
- Analyse how credit risk affects bond pricing and investor returns.
- Compare country and corporate credit assessment frameworks.
- Explain IPO processes and secondary market trading.
- Identify common and preferred equity types and rights.
- Interpret the construction and use of major equity indices.

