Introduction to The Financial Markets – Online Course

Course description

This course will give you a general introduction to the financial markets in Scandinavia. You will learn about the various participants in the financial markets; e.g. Central Securities Depositories, Central Banks, the banks, the insurance companies, mortgage banks, the CLS-system and the stock exchanges. You will learn about the stock-, bond-, money- and FX-market.

This course is also offered as a physical course. Read more.

How is the online course conducted?

We place great emphasis on interaction. Therefore, the training will be a combination of recorded training, exercises and guidance. The course includes:

  • A recorded class room training without participants, where you will get exercises and solutions as part of the training.
  • Possibility to ask questions and get answers within 24 hours.
  • Two months access to the course. You decide when and at what pace you want to follow the recorded training.
  • A training that is suitable for viewing on both computer and mobile.

You must set aside approx. 2 working days for the course.

Course content

– The nature of the financial markets
– The role of:
– Riksbanken, Norges Bank, Danmarks Nationalbank
– The banks
– The mortgage institutions
– The insurance companies and pension funds
– The Continuous Linked Settlement-system
– The custodian banks
– EuroNext VPS, EuroClear Sweden, VP Securities
– The exchanges
– Conventions on the market
– The money market
– The FX market
– The bond market
– The equity market
– Relevant risk figures

See course programme

The course is relevant to

– Finance employees
– Accountants
– Legal staff
– Account managers
– Back- and middle office employees
– IT employees
– Any newcomers to the Financial Markets
– Compliance
– Operations
– Internal auditors
– Controllers
– Graduates
– Product Managers

Prerequisites

The course is an introductory course so no specific requirements are needed.

Watch the first 10 minutes of the course

Reviews of this course (15)

10 Feb 2023

Introduction to The Financial Markets

Very good and intensive. Super valuable. Although I work with some products, I learned a lot new and got a deeper knowledge. Really great instructor. Very inspirational and knowledgeable.

Māra Muraška

SEB

10 Feb 2023

Introduction to The Financial Markets

It was really good. I'm a complete beginner and I learned a lot.

Andrea Osmar

SEB

10 Feb 2023

Introduction to The Financial Markets

Very valuable summary of financial markets. Theory was explained with practical examples and calculations. Short tests at the end of each topic were very useful too.

Artūrs Barbars

SEB

01 Mar 2022

Introduction to The Financial Markets - online course

5/5

Helle Madsen

Danske Bank

20 Aug 2021

Introduction to The Financial Markets

Very interesting and pedagogic. Jørgen is good at inspiring. Practical examples and theory are integrated.

Participant wants to be anonymous

20 Aug 2021

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Very good! It fulfilled my expectations and is relevant to my work in internal audit as I audit these areas. Jörgen is very good in explaining these areas in relevant depth

Participant wants to be anonymous

20 Aug 2021

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Bra med sammanfattning efter varje avslutat kapitel. Dår man också sätter informationen i en verklig händelse. Tydligt, enkelt att forstå. Instruktören förklarar komplexa saker på ett lättförståeligt sätt.

Cecilia Dysen

Swedbank Robur Fonder

16 Apr 2021

Introduction to The Financial Markets – Online Course

The course was great, both the pre-recorded lectures and the one-on-one webinar. Jørgen is a great teacher and very pedagogic.

Oskar Söderbom

Kommuninvest

06 Mar 2019

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Very good with the variation between theory and exercises.

Julia Gustavsson-Örn

SEB

06 Mar 2019

Introduction to the Financial Markets

I found the course very interesting and useful.

Amr Zeido

Vattenfall

11 Sep 2018

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Good with practice and exercises. Excellent instructor.

Muhammad Qasim

KommuneInvest

11 Sep 2018

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Relevant and valuable info. Gave me a better view of KommuneInvest and how the market works. Good excercises and much info. Great teacher.

Hanna Brandström

KommuneInvest

11 Sep 2018

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Very good teaching methods and excellent instructor.

Nina Landin

KommuneInvest

11 Sep 2018

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Excellent course. Lot of examples on whiteboard which is clarifying. The instructor is excellent, has very broad knowledge and a pedagogic approach.

Fredrik Nilsson

KommuneInvest

24 Aug 2018

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Very useful. A little bit too much details on how bonds are calculated but apart from that a very good level through the entire program.

Mattias Nordin

SEB

Instructor on this course

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen is Managing Director of Financial Training Partner A/S, which he co-founded in 2002.

He has many years of teaching experience as a chief consultant at SimCorp’s training department, which he joined in 1996. Prior to SimCorp he worked at Danske Bank with fixed income research and fixed income sales.

Jørgen has worked for a number of years as external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School and was awarded teacher of the year at CBS’ education Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Financial planning).

He is author of the books Finansiel Risikostyring (Financial Risk Management) and Finansielle Derivater (Financial Derivatives) published by Djøf Publishing.

He holds an M.Sc. (international finance) and an HD (accounting).

Jørgen teaches Derivatives, Risk Management, Portfolio Management and Fixed Income

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