Financial Markets & Capital Markets Professional Course

Master fixed income, bond investing, financial math, yield curves, and derivatives in global financial markets

The “Capital Markets Immersion: A Financial Markets Introduction” program offers a structured and comprehensive introduction to global capital markets and modern financial markets. It is designed to help learners clearly understand how key institutions, products, and market participants interact in real-world scenarios.

This program is ideal for professionals or those entering the industry who want to build a strong, practical understanding of how financial markets today function. It covers the full spectrum of instruments and applications, including fixed income securities, equities, and financial derivatives, without requiring prior in-depth knowledge.

You do not need to already understand how banks operate or how interest rates influence bond prices in the bond market. By the end of the course, you will be able to confidently discuss industry concepts, products, and dynamics from a high-level overview to detailed, ground-level insights.

This is one of the most comprehensive programs on capital markets, offering a solid foundation in quantitative finance, bond investing, and multi-asset market analysis.

Program Structure

The course includes 142 lectures (24+ hours of content), organised into seven key modules:

1. Capital Markets Road Map

Understand the core participants, issuers, investors, and intermediaries in capital markets, along with the instruments they trade and their real-world applications.

2. Fundamental Financial Math

Learn essential calculations used across financial markets, including pricing, returns, and yield analysis—critical for fixed income investments and decision-making.

3. Yield Curve Dynamics

Explore the construction and interpretation of yield curves, and their role in pricing fixed income securities, assessing risk, and understanding market expectations.

4. Fixed Income Securities

Develop a deep understanding of what fixed income securities are, the types of fixed income securities, and further learn the characteristics of fixed income securities in general, as well as discuss specific characteristics of specific sectors of the fixed income market.

5. Equity Products

Examine equity markets, including product types, exchanges, investor behaviour, diversification, and volatility within broader financial markets.

6. Futures & Options

Gain insights into financial derivatives, including futures and options, their pricing, applications, and role in financial engineering, risk management, and hedging strategies.

7. Interest Rate Swaps

Analyse interest rate swaps in detail, including structure, valuation, pricing, and their applications in managing interest rate risk across capital markets.

In all, there are 142 total lectures (video clips) and over 24 hours of total viewable content. This program also includes supplemental PDFs as downloadable attachments that you can use to follow along with each lecture's instructor.

About the Course Provider

This course is led by a seasoned capital markets industry practitioner and executive with many years of hands-on, in-the-trenches financial markets sales, trading and analysis work. It has been designed, produced and delivered by Starweaver. Starweaver is one of the most highly regarded, well-established training providers in the World, providing training courses to many of the leading financial institutions and technology companies, including:

Ahli United Bank; Mashreqbank; American Express; ANZ Bank; ATT; Banco Votorantim; Bank of America; Bank of America Global Markets; Bank of America Private Bank; Barclay Bank; BMO Financial Group; BMO Financial Services; BNP Paribas; Boeing; Cigna; Citibank; Cognizant; Commerzbank; Credit Lyonnais/Calyon; Electrosonic; Farm Credit Administration; Fifth Third Bank; GENPACT; GEP Software; GLG Group; Hartford; HCL; HCL; Helaba; HSBC; HSBC Corporate Bank; HSBC India; HSBC Private Bank; Legal & General; National Australia Bank; Nomura Securities; PNC Financial Services Group; Quintiles; RAK Bank; Regions Bank; Royal Bank of Canada; Royal Bank of Scotland; Santander Corporate Bank; Tata Consultancy Services; Union Bank; ValueMomentum; Wells Fargo; Wells Fargo India Solutions; Westpac Corporate Bank; Wipro; and, many others.

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