OVERVIEW

 

1.      HISTORY OF BANKING AND FINANCE

 

         (1)    Banking

         (2)    International Finance

         (3)    International Trade and Merchant Finance

         (4)    Merchant Banking

         (5)    Investment Banking

 

2.      INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM

 

         (1)    Gold Standard 1816-1933

         (2)    Bretton Woods 1944-1973

         (3)    Petrol-Dollars and the Debt Crisis 1974-1989  

         (4)    Asian and Russian Crises 1997-1998

         (5)    Credit Crisis 2007-2010

 

3.      INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS

 

         (1)     Money Markets

         (2)     Capital Markets

         (3)     Eurodollar Markets

         (4)     Financial Derivatives Markets 

         (5)     Currency Markets

         (6)     Gold Market

         (7)     Commodity Markets

         (8)     Insurance Markets

 

4.      FINANCIAL ASSETS AND INSTRUMENTS

 

         (1)     Coinage and Currency

         (2)     Credit and Payment

         (3)     Public Debt

         (4)     Corporate Securities

         (5)     Risk and Investment Assets

 

 

5.      INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRES

 

         (1)     International banking

         (2)     Investment banking

         (3)     International bonds

         (4)     Equities

         (5)     Foreign exchange

         (6)     Financial derivatives

         (7)     Asset management

         (8)    Gold bullion

         (9)    Insurance

         (10)  Marine services

 

6.      GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANKING

 

         (1)    Investment banking Business

 

(i)          Equity and Debt Underwriting

(ii)         Market Making and Trading

(iii)        Asset Management

(iv)        Advisory Services

(v)         Trade finance

(vi)        Foreign Exchange and Financial Derivatives

(vii)       Prime Brokerage

(viii)      Other Activities

 

         (2)    Development of Investment Banking

               

(i)          US Investment Banks and Brokerage Houses

(ii)         British Merchant Banks

(iii)        Continental European Universal Banks

(iv)        Japanese Securities Houses

 

         (3)    International Investment Banking and the Financial Crisis

 

7.      INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANKING

 

(1)   Banking and Banks

(2)   Cross-border Banking

(3)   Development of International Banking

(4)   International Commercial Bank Activities

(5)   International Banking Regulation and Basel III

 

8.      INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS  

 

(1)   Euro Loans

 

(i)          Loan Structures

(ii)         Loan Facilities

(iii)        Issue Procedure

(iv)        Loan Syndication

(v)         Loan Documentation

 

(2)  Euro Bonds

 

(i)          Bond Structures

(ii)         Bond Facilities

(iii)        Parties and Documentation

(iv)        Issuance Procedure and Listing

(v)         Liability

 

(3)  Project Finance

 

(i)          Structure

(ii)         Advantage and Disadvantage

(iii)        Parties

(iv)        Documentation

(v)         Negotiation

 

(4)  Securitisation

 

(i)          Structure

(ii)         Advantage

(iii)        Parties

(iv)        Documentation

(v)         Negotiation

 

        (5)  Financial Derivatives

 

(i)          Market Structure

(ii)         Advantages and Disadvantages

(iii)        ISDA and Standard Documentation

(iv)        Financial Crisis        

(v)         Financial Regulation

 

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