What You'll 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
Requirements
- Anyone and everyone
Who This Course is For
- CISI Level 2 “Fundamentals of Financial Services” candidates
- Finance Student
- Accounting Students
- Tax Students
- ACCA
- Financial Services entry level
- Banking entry level
- Financial Services Interns or Apprentices
- Anyone interested in Financial Services
- Anyone interested in Economics and the Economy
- New employees at various financial institutions
Your Instructor
Baba Oyewole
Business, Finance Consultant and Chartered Accountant
4.5 Instructor Rating
12,753 Reviews
191,017 Students
44 Courses
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