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 available as a classroom-based course.

How is the online course conducted?

The course is delivered as e-learning through our digital learning platform. The course combines narrated presentations, videos with whiteboard explanations, Excel exercises, quizzes and reading materials, allowing you to learn at your own pace – whenever and wherever it suits you.

You should allow approximately two working days to complete the course. The course includes two months’ access.

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 (2)

03 Dec 2025

Introduction to the Financial Markets

Very good, very interesting and engaging.

John Abramsson

Svensk Exportkredit

16 Apr 2021

Introduction to The Financial Markets – Online Course

The course and the pre-recorded lectures were great. Jørgen is a great teacher and very pedagogical.

Oskar Söderbom

Kommuninvest

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 also works as an external lecturer at CBS (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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