Fundamentals of Financial Services
Understanding key elements and basic workings of the Financial Services Industry (useful for exams as well)
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What you will learn
Banking - History of banking
Banking - Distinctions between Retail/Investment etc
The role of banks
Central banks
Saving and Borrowing
Evaluating different sources of borrowing (mortgage, overdraft, credit card, payday loans etc)
Calculating effective annual IRs
Ethics and Integrity in Financial Services
How the financial services sector links savers and borrowers, both on a household and corporate scale
Insurance
IPOs
Sources of return for shareholders
Calculating dividend yields
Benefits and risks of shareholding
Bonds
Advantages and disadvantages of bondholding
Credit rating agencies (S+P, Fitch, Moody’s)
Derivatives – call/put options, futures
Markets – stock exchanges and regions/sectors that they represent
Fund management (vs direct investment)
Forex
Pensions
Fintechs, Crowdfunding, Distributed ledger tech
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12/23/2022
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1/23/2023
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