Foreign Exchange, Money Markets and Derivatives Masterclass
We provide platform for Public training, In-house, to all clients and individual who seek to learn and educate.
Course Overview
Called one of the most liquid markets in the world, the foreign exchange or foreign currency markets transact trillions of dollars a day across the globe. Foreign exchange, or FX as it is often referred, is generally divided into major and minor currencies, and include the spot, forward, and option markets. Foreign exchange is used to trade, invest, raise capital, and hedge. Foreign Exchange (FX) and Money Markets course provides a firm grounding in the instruments and activities of the international money and FX markets, sweeping away the confusion that can be created by the scale, speed and apparent diversity of the markets.
The course emphasizes the integrated nature of FX, money markets and derivatives. Mastering the mechanics and usages of such instruments provides excellent opportunities for arbitrage, hedging and risk management for those engaged in corporate treasury functions, commercial banks, and asset management companies. The course also analyses the liquidity characteristics and risks of different instruments and funding strategies.
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Advance understanding of the FX market, its mechanics and major participants
- Analyze the role and impact of central banks on FX and money markets
- Examine the nature of money supply, open market operations, and quantitative easing
- Key understanding of liquidity, capital adequacy, and solvency
- Calculating the net present value of a series of cash flows
- The Repo Market
- Understand how to calculate interest and price products
- Distinguishing the money and capital markets
- Forward rates for interest rate and FX
- Risk premia, key money markets spreads and currency outlook
- Key concepts of hedging equity and fixed income risk with derivatives
- Identifying and managing the risks in repo transactions:
- Analytical skills to key financial products within global money markets
- Role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Special Drawing Rights (SDR’s)
- Pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical risk management
- Develop an understanding of key strands of financial risk management
- Pricing Money Market Instruments
- Money Markets Instruments
- Understand the differences between interest rate instruments
- Explain the core Money Market and FX products
- Learnthe logic and uses of financial derivatives – forwards, swaps and options
- Pillars 2 and 3 of Basel accords and role of central banks as supervisors
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This programme is aimed to enhance the capabilities, personal qualities and confidence of,
- Foreign Exchange Dealers
- Risk Management
- Treasury Management Derivative traders
- Corporate Executives
- Banks and Treasury Managers
- New/recently-appointed Nos
- Treasury Sales & Traders
- Treasury support function
- Market risk & Credit risk
- Operational risk
- Transaction Banking (Cash & Trade)
- Client relationship Manager
- Credit officers
- Finance Team
- Legal
- Foreign Exchange
- Accountants and auditors
IN-HOUSE
Our Tailored Learning Offering
Do you have five or more people interested in attending this course? Do you want to tailor it to meet your company’s exact requirements? If you’d like to do either of these, we can bring this course to your company’s office by offering our classroom program or LIVE Online. You could even save up to 50% on the cost of sending delegates to a public course and dramatically increase your ROI.
Top Quality
From the Boardroom to the front line, we can deliver engaging, multi-faceted learning programmes that will nurture the skills needed to fast-track development and enable teams to flourish.
Best Way
We combine the right blend of formal, informal, online and classroom techniques to increase your employees’ knowledge retention, drive collaboration, and create social learning communities.