Business Administration (Graduate)
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Pre-requisites: None
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This course is an advanced-level course designed to provide the student with a conceptual understanding of how financial markets work, how they are structured, how prices and yields are determined and provide insight into the many different types of risks that exist in financial markets. This course also intends to provide a conceptual framework of why financial institutions exist and how they function with a focus on commercial banks.
- Understand the structure and operation of global financial markets.
- Understand the various factors that affect the operations of financial markets.
- Recognize the key characteristics of equity, fixed-income and derivatives markets.
- Understand the fundamentals as well as the determinants of interest rates
- Have knowledge of the international aspects of financial markets.
- Understand commercial banks and their role.
- Understand the financial risks faced by the various financial institutions and the various methods to manage them.
- Understand the role of financial institutions in global markets.