Capital Markets

This course begins with a look at the four core financial markets and the three main classes of derivatives. You will learn how to distinguish the global trends in volume for each of the plain vanilla financial products and show the macroeconomic reasons for those trends.

This course will also review how bonds, equity, foreign exchange and money markets are traded along with the role that equity plays from both the issuer's and investor's perspective.

We wrap up this course with a look at the different types of stock markets.

This course is part 1 of the New York Institute of Finance's Capital Markets Professional Certificate.

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This course begins with a look at the role debt and equity plays in a firm's capital structure. We'll look at the main issuers of bonds and the different types of bonds they issue and review the difference between domestic and international bonds. We'll also review how to price a plain vanilla bond for the current market place.

Further, in the course, we'll look at the different yield curve shapes and review their implications for the economy and business cycle. We'll also look at the primary and secondary markets and review the mechanics of treasury auctions.

This course will also cover the functions of rating agencies and the methodology they use along with a look at the trading conventions used by FX markets for both spot and forward transaction.

We'll wrap up this course with a look at the key regulators of the financial markets.

This course is part 2 of the New York Institute of Finance's Capital Markets Professional Certificate.

This course begins with a look at how equity indexes serve market participants and covers the three predominant types of security market indexes.

We’ll review the various approaches to valuation as well as cover the factors and challenges of valuation. You’ll learn how to calculate WACC and after-tax cost of debt.

This course wraps up with a review of key equity investment vehicles - mutual funds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds and private equity.

This course is part 3 of the New York Institute of Finance’s Capital Markets Professional Certificate.

This course begins with an overview of derivatives where we'll cover the global derivatives market players and understand the usage of derivatives.

We'll also cover treasury futures and understand margin and margin requirements in this course before moving on to a look at the characteristics and features of swaps.

We'll learn the fundamentals of pricing interest rate swaps and be able to apply interest rate swaps to hedging situations.

We'll wrap up this course with a review of various option terminologies and understanding of swaptions.

This course is part 4 of the New York Institute of Finance's Capital Markets Professional Certificate.

This course begins with a look at credit derivatives and the participants of credit indices. We'll recognize the uses of CDS and the advantages of credit indices.

In this course, we'll also cover lectures to understand the difference between primary and secondary markets, understand initial public offerings (IPO) and the anatomy of an IPO.

We'll wrap up this course with a look at the major IPO participants and their role.

This course is part 5 of the New York Institute of Finance's Capital Markets Professional Certificate.