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Course Outline
The Global Capital Markets
- Defining a ‘financial marketplace’
- The historical evolution of today’s global financial markets
- The influence and role of financial media
- Structure of major capital markets:
- Exchanges, Clearing Houses, and Regulators
- The contemporary surge in global investment
- Different types of ‘Stock Exchanges’
- The role of Stock Exchanges in today’s markets
- Overview of US, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian Stock Exchanges
Financial Markets Regulation:
- Capital Adequacy Requirements
- Basel I Framework
- Basel II Framework
- Basel III and its implications
- Sources for New Product Development
The Different Asset Classes and Their Markets
- What is currently traded on Stock Exchanges?
- Equities – Common and Preferred
- Bonds – Corporate and Government
- Bonds – Fixed, Floating, Zero Coupon, and the Yield Curve
- Money Market instruments
- The currency markets
- Investor motivations: Why buy and what triggers selling?
- Income vs. Capital Gain
- Interrelationships between various asset classes
- Interaction between Exchange-traded and Over-The-Counter markets
Short Term Money Market
- Certificates of Deposit
- Treasury Bills (T Bills)
- Commercial Paper
- Trade Paper & Bankers’ Acceptances (BAs)
- Market norms and practices
- Market participants
The Different Types of Stock Exchange Investors
- Individual and Institutional Investors
- Fund Managers
- Hedge Funds
- Stock Exchange participants
- Investment Banks, Stockbrokers, Hedge Funds, and Prime Brokers
- Intra-market relationships – The buy-side and sell-side of the industry
The Role of the Stock Exchange
- Where are these products traded?
- The importance of the OTC market
- The historical development of Stock Exchanges
- Major Stock Exchanges in today’s markets
- US, European, and Asian Markets and their differing architectures
- Asset classes traded on global Stock Exchanges
- The major Primary and Secondary markets
- Key exchanges: New York, Euronext, London, Shanghai, Hong Kong
- The attraction of ‘listed’ companies to investors
- Utilizing Stock Exchanges to pool liquidity and raise capital
- Methods of Capital Raising
- ‘Floating’ a company – Different methods
Clearing & Settlement
- Settlement processes 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 problems – Unmatched trades, delayed settlement, bad delivery
- Stock Exchange Settlement Discipline
- The ‘life cycle of a trade’ – Linking 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
- What are 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 vs 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
- Risk 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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