Opleiding Financial Markets

This course is particularly suited to people who hold or are about to start a bachelor-level function in the financial services sector and wish to expand their knowledge of the financial markets. During the course, you will learn the basic principles of the currency, money and capital markets and the coherence between them. The practical approach employed by the experienced tutors combined with the modern online learning environment make this a very attractive course. This NIBE-SVV course provides excellent perspectives for your future career.

Target group

This course has been developed for current and starting employees occupying a bachelor-level function in the financial-services sector who wish to deepen their knowledge of the financial markets, such as starting salesmen and traders in the financial markets or mid/back-office employees treasury and securities employees working for banks and institutional investors. This course is also of interest to investment advisors and asset managers, IT specialists and other support staff, internal/external accountants, SME accountants, government accountants and business accountants.

Preliminary training

This course requires basic knowledge about banking and investment. Bachelor-level education would be preferred.

Course materials

NIBE-SVV is the number one financial trainer in the banking, insurance and securities sectors and sets the standard for the market. This guarantees you the highest quality by far. For many years, NIBE-SVV has been the training institute for the Dutch financial-services sector. NIBE-SVV uses the latest literature and possesses a modern online learning environment. This online learning environment includes all information that you will require for your training.

Goal and structure

The goal of this course is to teach you about the function of the products in the money market, capital market, currency market and the financial-derivatives market. Following this captivating course, you will understand the different roles within the financial markets and you will know how the prices of the various products are determined. You will also understand how clients/banks apply the various products and you are able to explain the risks involved in the various activities of institutions operating in the financial markets. This course is taught by highly experienced and professionally active lecturers. The lessons are practically oriented, extremely accessible and provide an excellent preparation for the final modular assignment.

Study load and duration

The average duration of this course is 2 months. The classroom meetings, preparation and reading approximately takes 7 hours a week.

Study programme

The course addresses the following topics:

Banking, Economics and Financial Markets

• Bank revenue models
• Key economic terminology
• Financial markets

The money Market

• Functions of the money market
• Macroeconomics and ECB monetary policy
• Money-market products

The Currency Market

• Spot and forward transactions

The Capital Market - obligations and stocks

• Obligations: settlement and price setting
• Securitisation
• IPOs and claim-emission statistics

Derivatives

• Options
• Interest-rate swaps

Alternative financing

• Dutch funding gap
• Direct lending
• Credit unions
• Crowdfunding

Exam and diploma

The course concludes with an assignment. Upon passing this assignment you will be awarded the NIBE-SVV diploma ‘Financial Markets’.