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Course Outline
The Global Capital Markets
- Defining a 'financial market place'
- Historical evolution of today’s global financial market
- The influence of financial media
- Structure of major capital markets:
- Exchanges, Clearing Houses, and Regulators
- The contemporary surge in global investment
- Varieties of 'Stock Exchanges'
- The role of Stock Exchanges in today’s markets
- US, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian Stock Exchanges
Financial Markets Regulation:
- Capital Adequacy Requirements
- Basel I
- Basel II
- Basel III and its implications
- Drivers for New Product Development
The Different Asset Classes and Their Markets
- Current trading activities on Stock Exchanges
- Equities – Common and Preferred
- Bonds – Corporate and Government
- Bonds – Fixed, Floating, and Zero-coupon; the Yield Curve
- Money Market instruments
- The currency markets
- Motivations for buying and selling assets
- Income versus Capital Gain
- Interrelationships between various asset classes
- Connections between Exchange-traded and Over-The-Counter (OTC) markets
Short Term Money Market
- Certificates of Deposit
- Treasury Bills
- Commercial Paper
- Trade Paper & Acceptances (BAs)
- Market norms and practices
- Market participants
The Different Types of Stock Exchange Investor
- Individual Investors
- Fund Managers
- Hedge Funds
- Stock Exchange Participants
- Investment Banks, Stockbrokers, Hedge Funds, and Prime Brokers
- Intra-market relationships – the buy and sell sides of the industry
The Role of the Stock Exchange
- Where these products are traded
- The significance of the OTC market
- Historical development of Stock Exchanges
- Key Stock Exchanges in today’s markets
- US, European, and Asian Markets and their differing architectures
- Asset classes traded on various Stock Exchanges globally
- The major Primary and Secondary markets
- Key exchanges: New York, Euronext, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong
- Why 'listed' companies attract investors
- Using Stock Exchanges to pool liquidity and raise capital
- Methods of Capital Raising
- Methods of 'Floating' a company
Clearing & Settlement
- Settlement and settlement risk
- Different Settlement Conventions in major markets
- Equities, Bonds, and Derivatives
- The process for Derivatives Clearing
- The Central Counterparty (CCP)
- CCP services provided to Stock Exchanges
- Margin requirements
- The security trade settlement process
- Pre-settlement phase
- Settlement phase
- Potential issues – unmatched trades, delayed settlement, bad delivery
- Stock Exchange Settlement Discipline
- The 'life cycle of a trade' – linking the process from trade to settlement
- The role of International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs) and Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) – LCH.Clearnet, Euroclear, Crest, Clearstream International, the DTC
Custody
- The role of Custodians in stock markets
- Settlement and safekeeping
- Income collection and Corporate Actions
- Cash management and funding transactions
- Additional services
- Accounting
- Stock Lending and collateral management
- Trustee services
- Valuation reports
Alternative Investments
- Definition of Alternative Investments
- Structured products - Risks and returns
- Hedge funds - Risks and Control
- Venture Capital Valuation issues, Risk and Control
- Private Equity/Angel Finance
- The use of derivatives in Asset Management
- OTC versus Exchange-Traded Derivatives (ETD)
- Types of Derivatives used in Asset Management
- Futures
- Options
- Risks and controls associated with derivatives, including documentation, valuation, and reporting issues
The Management of Quoted Equity Investment
- Risks associated with acquiring securities
- Risks associated with managing securities
- Risks associated with corporate actions
- Pricing of quoted equity investments
- Major sources of risk
- General controls within equity investment
- Risks associated with international equity markets
The Management of Quoted Fixed Income Investment
- Risks associated with acquiring and disposing of fixed income securities
- The use of ratings and associated risk issues
- Risks associated with pricing of fixed income securities
- Risk and controls within corporate fixed income processing
- Risks associated with Government Securities
- Sovereign risk ratings
- The valuation of government securities
- Risk and controls within sovereign bond processing
The Market and Credit Risks of investing in Global Markets
- Market risks
- VAR calculations
- Market risk modelling
- Credit Risks
- Measuring Credit risks
- Global Market Risks
- Money Market Risks
- OTC Risks
- Exchange risks
14 Hours
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