Financial Markets and Risk Management (2-weeks)

What you will learn

By the end of this Financial Markets course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:

• 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.
• Build a multi-stage DCF using growth assumptions.
• Evaluate companies using sector-relative metrics.
• Analyse appropriate models for volatile industries
• Describe how currencies are traded and by whom.
• Differentiate FX instruments and their applications.
• Design basic hedging strategies using forwards or options.
• Classify types of investment risk and their implications.
• Apply common risk metrics to portfolio scenarios.
• Develop a basic risk budgeting plan for asset managers.
• Apply pricing formulas for call and put options.
• Analyse how swaps are used in rate and currency hedging.
• Evaluate case studies of derivatives-related financial crises