Financial Services Domain

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# Topic What will be taught Time Required (Hours)
1 Fundamental finance concepts – Basic finance concepts
– Fundamental statistics
– Fundamental accounting
– Financial statements like balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
3
2 How financial instruments work – Details of various Financial instruments 101 (stocks, bonds, derivatives etc.)
– Valuation of financial instruments
– Investment analysis 101 – Qualitative and quantitative
3
3 Overview of various players in financial services – Retail banks
– Investment banks
– Front office, middle office and back office operations
– Broker and dealers
– Mutual funds & hedge funds
– Regulators like SEC, Fed reserve and FINRA
– Rating agencies
– Clearing houses and trading exchanges
– Mortgage basics
3
4 Various divisions of an investment bank – Front office – traders, brokers, dealers, asset managers, prime brokerage & private equity
– Middle office – risk management, compliance, legal, internal audit, corporate treasury and product control
– Back office – Clearing, settlement, collateral management, accounting, financial reporting, HR, payroll and accounting
3
5 Investment management & trading – Trade life cycle & types of trade
– Asset management
– Portfolio creation
– Asset management system
– Trading systems
– Investment selection systems
– Wealth planning systems
4
6 Risk management – Market risk & Value at risk (VAR) calculations
– Liquidity risk
– Operational risk
– Credit risk
– Typical risk management systems and their architecture
– Modelling and analytics systems
3
7 Regulatory compliance and anti money laundering – Basel 1,2, and 3
– Sarbanes Oxley
– Dodd Frank act
– Anti money laundering
– Examples of compliance and AML systems
– Stress testing systems
3
8 Retail banking – Retail vs commercial banking
– Types of accounts
– Various customer channels like branches, IVR, online and mobile banking
– Retail banking operations details
– Clearance and settlement systems
– Electronic payment systems
3

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Total Time: 25 Hours