Financial Services Domain

Posted on August 26, 2015October 19, 2015 by Aditi Kadkol

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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