By the end of this professional certificate, you will be able to:

• Identify the global trends in volume for various financial productsand articulate the macroeconomic reasons for those trends.
• Understand how bonds, equities, foreign exchange, and money market products are traded.
• Structure and price a plain vanilla bond for the current marketplace.
• Identify the key regulators of the global financial system.
• Describe the primary objectives of capital markets regulation.
• Read bond and equity listings and decide whether the deals worked well for the parties involved.
• Choose the best derivative to hedge against risk in real-life financial situations.
• Calculate the profit or loss on a futures trades.Construct a swap and calculate the benefit of the swap to each counterparty.
• Invest the money held by a pension fund both geographically and by asset class.
• Describe the role of equity from both the issuer's and investor's perspectives.
• Distinguish among the different types of stock markets.
• Describe the main methods used in equity valuation.
• Explain the major steps in the IPO process.
• Identify the key participants in the IPO process.
• Apply knowledge to today’s financial situations.

Anyone seeking to understand global capital markets and the trading of debt, equity, foreign exchange and derivative instruments