Investment Banking domain certification course is a foundation course which provides basic understanding of Financial System, Investment Banking, Asset classes, Trade life cycle, Front, middle and back office functions, trade settlement cycle and risk management.
This Investment Banking Domain training course is designed for professionals who would like to get started with Investment Banking domain as a Business Analyst or Project Manager.
This is a three-weekends course and is offered as Live online training as well as self-paced course. AT the end of the course, you will be given a proficiency certification based on Course completion test.
Course Syllabus
Investment Banking Overview
• Introduction to Financial System
• Intro to I-Banking
• Markets Participants in IB
• Latest Trends in IB
• Asset Classes
• Intro to Front Office
Trade Life cycle
• Participants in a Trade Lifecycle
• Trade Life Cycle – Departments
• Pre-Trade Flow
• OTC Trade Lifecycle
• Reconciliations
• Front Office
• Middle Office
• Back Office
• Trade Settlements
• Netting
Risk Management
• Risk-An Intro
• Risk Types
• What is Credit Risk
• Credit Risk Pointers
• Credit Risk Exposures
• Risk Measurement (EAD/LGD/PD)
• VaR-Distribution Curves
• Credit Risk Life Cycle
• Risk Types-Interactions
• Market Risk/Operations Risk
• Credit Crisis-Examples
Course Project 1
Investo Bank - Current trade rate validation
Investo Bank is acomparatively new investment bank established in Mumbai, India. While the bank has already started the operations, the multi-year “Project Improve” is still going-on with an aim of improving efficiency of existing processes. Based on the recent workshops conducted on process improvements, Operations and Technology team management would like to review some of the existing processes to analyze the areas of improvement. One such area is to look at the way how the Market Conformity checks are performed for a trade.
Project Objectives: Business Analyst should perform an analysis of the current trade rate validation process for Equity and up with a process diagram depicting the as-is process.
Course Project 2
Investo Bank – Front Office Pre-Trade Approval
Investo Bank is acomparatively new investment bank established in Mumbai, India. While the bank has already started the operations, the multi-year “Project Improve” is still going-on with an aim of improving efficiency of existing processes. John Telford is a Six sigma black belt certificate holder with specific interest in process improvement in investment banking domain. He has recently joined “Project Improve” and has been asked to study existing processes followed by the traders, understand the pain-points, propose, and implement revised processes.
Project Objectives: Identify the bottlenecks in this process.Propose multiple options for each of these bottlenecks.