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10:00 - 13:00
Aims
- To set the financial markets in the context of the economy as a whole
- To introduce participants to the workings and structures of the financial markets
- To examine the conflicting needs of issuer and investor, borrower and lender, and to demonstrate how markets seek to reconcile those differing needs
- To remind those participating of the most common types of wholesale financial products
- To set the roles of the professions and of other providers of business services in the context of the markets
Objectives
- To address the roles and functions of the different categories of market participants
- To assist those who attend understand why clients access the wholesale financial markets through a variety of means at different stages of their corporate development, and of the business cycle
- To highlight the relationship between risk and reward in financial markets, and to examine how it affects the decision-making processes of a client
- To provide participants with a better understanding of the financing and investing stances of their clients and customers
- To develop awareness of financial management disciplines in corporate and institutional clients
Expected Outcome
- The course attendees will receive clarification and reinforcement of the financial knowledge gained to date
- Participants will have explained to them in comprehensible terms the major types of market, and of the products that are traded, and of the application of these products to clients of their firms
- Those attending the course will gain an overview of the regulatory and supervisory architecture as it affects financial markets and their participants
- Those attending will gain self-confidence and a stronger awareness of finance, and will be better able to understand client actions, and to talk more knowledgeably with them when required
- Participants will be more familiar with the role of government in financial markets, and will be better able to judge the impacts of budgetary and fiscal decisions on the financing scope of companies
Seminar Topics
- Corporate Finance the balance sheet and P&L accounts and the cash flow statement
- How a company raises finance from its banks and from the markets
- Taxation its impact and effects on borrowers and on investors
- Risk and reward a framework that drives each party and links all markets
- How do different markets price risk?
- Banks what they are and how they operate.
- Banks of all types their purposes, objectives and structures
- The stock market, indices, market makers, other participants
- Non Bank Financial Institutions; assurance, insurance, unit trusts, investment trusts, pension companies, investment and asset managers, hedge funds, charities
- Professional and business services, including trade bodies
- Brokers of all types
- The rating agencies
- Markets and their structures exchange-traded, OTC, open outcry, primary & secondary markets
- Market characteristics liquidity, transparency, accessibility
- Settlement, delivery, payments, depository and clearing systems
- Financial instruments and derivatives
- Regulation and capital adequacy
- City pressing issues and current affairs: the future
Who Should Attend?
This course will be of benefit to any new recruits in securities, investment banking, stock broking, asset management, information technology, sales & marketing within the city and financial markets.
CPD
A CPD certificate will be provided to all attendees, which may be considered appropriate by your company for the accrual of CPD hours. Delegates will qualify for 3 CPD hours.
To Reserve Places
email events@goodacreuk.com or book online with all contact details, including the name and address for invoicing. You will receive confirmation of your booking within 24 hours. Price inclusive of all course material. Price exclusive of VAT.
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