Training in capital markets and risk management.

Knowing a financial instrument means understanding how it works, its conditions of use and its risks. Solutiuma’s training explores these aspects so that participants can apply the methods studied to situations encountered in their work.

Participants

Finance professionals and teams within financial institutions.

Markets, instruments and portfolio management.

Understand how markets operate, value financial instruments and analyse portfolio risk and performance.

Markets and instruments

Introduction to trading and how markets work

Understand how markets are organised, read a quotation and distinguish the main stages of a transaction.

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  • Primary and secondary markets
  • Quotations, orders and execution
  • Market participants, trading and settlement

Money market and interest rate instruments

Compare short-term investment and funding arrangements, calculate interest and assess credit and liquidity risks.

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Treasury instruments

  • Treasury bills
  • Certificates of deposit
  • Commercial paper
  • Repurchase agreements (repos)
  • Interbank deposits

Bonds and bond markets

Relate a bond’s cash flows to its price, measure its sensitivity to interest rates and assess credit risk. Compare the characteristics of securities, including convertible bonds.

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Bonds

  • Government bonds
  • Corporate bonds
  • Fixed-rate bonds
  • Floating-rate bonds
  • Zero-coupon bonds
  • Convertible bonds

Equities and equity markets

Distinguish the rights attached to shares, understand their valuation and examine how liquidity affects trading conditions.

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Equities

  • Ordinary shares
  • Preference shares
  • Listed shares
  • Unlisted shares

Foreign exchange

Understand quotations, calculate exchanged cash flows and compare ways to hedge foreign currency exposures.

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Foreign exchange transactions and contracts

  • Spot foreign exchange
  • FX forwards
  • Currency options
  • FX swaps

Derivatives and structured products

Forwards, options and swaps

Distinguish contractual rights and obligations, calculate gains and losses under market scenarios and understand how contracts can be used for hedging.

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Forward and futures contracts

  • Forward contracts
  • Futures contracts

Options and warrants

  • Call options
  • Put options
  • Warrants

Interest rate and currency swaps

  • Interest rate swaps
  • Cross-currency swaps

Credit swaps

  • Credit default swaps (CDS)

Structured products

Break down return and repayment mechanisms, examine market scenarios and identify the conditions for capital protection.

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Instruments and mechanisms

  • Structured notes
  • Capital-guaranteed products
  • Structured investment certificates
  • Autocallable products

Securitisation

Understand how receivables are transformed into securities, read the distribution of cash flows and analyse risks in the underlying assets.

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Securitised instruments

  • Asset-backed securities (ABS)
  • Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
  • Collateralised debt obligations (CDO)

Analysis and portfolio management

Fundamental and technical market analysis

Read financial information and market data to build an analysis, compare findings and identify the limitations of the methods used.

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  • Analysis of financial statements and value drivers
  • Reading prices, volumes and technical indicators
  • Comparing conclusions and assumptions

Portfolio management and asset allocation

Build and analyse an allocation, assess diversification and examine how investments contribute to portfolio risk and performance.

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  • Asset allocation and diversification
  • Measuring performance and exposures
  • Direct investment and collective investments

Collective investments

Read a fund’s composition, distinguish its structure and investment strategy, and analyse portfolio exposures.

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Collective investments

  • Fonds communs de placement (FCP)
  • SICAV
  • Exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
  • Index funds
  • Hedge funds

Understand methods and their use.

Analysing a financial situation, understanding how a market instrument is valued, assessing a risk exposure: our training provides the knowledge needed to address these questions. The aim is to learn how to use calculation and analysis methods, explain the results obtained and recognise their limitations.

Finance

Read a balance sheet and an income statement to understand an organisation’s financial position. Explain its profitability, distinguish profit from cash flow and identify its financing needs.

Capital markets

Understand how a financial instrument’s value is determined, where its return comes from and what can lead to a loss. Analyse the composition of a portfolio and the impact of market movements on its value.

Risk management

Identify sources of losses and measure an institution’s exposures. Assess the consequences of adverse scenarios, interpret risk indicators and understand how to define limits and risk control measures.

A programme tailored to your team’s needs.

We work with you to define the topics to cover and what participants should be able to do by the end of the training. The programme takes account of their knowledge, responsibilities and the financial questions they encounter in their work.

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  1. Participants’ roles and initial knowledge
  2. Knowledge to acquire and methods to master
  3. Training content and delivery arrangements

Participants

Finance professionals and teams within financial institutions.

The training request helps clarify the institution’s needs. The programme and participation conditions are then formalised in a proposal.

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