What You Will Learn
This program is designed to give learners a strong foundation in global financial markets, investment banking concepts, and financial data operations, combining domain knowledge with practical analytics skills used in financial institutions.You will gain hands-on understanding of:
- Investment banking and the global financial system, including buy-side and sell-side business models, market participants, and regulatory bodies
- Equity markets, covering primary and secondary markets, IPO processes in Indian and US markets, stock exchanges, and equity trade economics
- Fixed income securities, including bonds, yields, pricing concepts, securitization (MBS & ABS), and the impact of interest rates
- Foreign exchange (FX) markets, FX instruments, quotations, trade types, and FX futures and options
- Derivatives markets, including forwards, futures, options, and swaps, with practical insights into pricing, payoffs, margins, and settlement
- Corporate actions, their purpose, types, key dates, and impact across the trade lifecycle
- Trade life cycle and settlement processes for exchange-traded and OTC products
- Reference data management, including securities data, counterparty data, identifiers (ISIN, SWIFT, etc.), and static data handling
- Reconciliation processes, types of reconciliations, operational risks, and control frameworks
- Financial statement analysis with a focus on interpreting financial data for decision-making
- Financial modelling and valuation, using Excel-based data analysis, validation, and real-world case studies
- Equity research fundamentals, including industry analysis, macroeconomic factors, and research report preparation
- Data analytics essentials, such as ETL concepts, data validation, pivot tables, and lookup functions
In addition to technical skills, the course also emphasizes resume building, presentation skills, and professional communication, helping learners prepare for roles in investment banking operations, financial analytics, equity research, and capital markets.