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From financial products to the functioning of financial markets
Updated on Sep, 2026
Finance and Accounting, Investing and Trading, Financial Markets
Duration - 2.5 hours
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Do you want to understand the financial press, and especially the section on financial markets and products?
Do you want to start a career in financial markets?
Or do you want to improve your knowledge to become an expert in how to create stakeholder value?
This course will make sure that you can respond to the answers positively in a very fast pace!
This course includes 16 lectures giving you the basics about financial markets and financial products. Specifically, you will learn about:
* Different types of finance: corporate finance, asset management and financial market infrastructures
* How to buy listed shares, including the role of trading venues, brokers. Also the concepts of market orders, limited orders and stop loss orders are explained.
* Fixed income securities, such as corporate bonds, government bonds and convertible bonds. Also an introduction to asset-based securities is provided.
* Money market instruments, such as repurchase agreements and commercial paper.
* Derivatives: options, futures, forwards, and swaps
* Structured products
* Short selling and dark pools
* Financial intermediaries and banks where commercial banks and investment banks are compared.
* Clearing and settlement
* Portfolio management: the difference between active vs. passive management
* Fundamental analysis (including ratio analysis).
* Technical analysis, where historical stock prices are used to predict future ones.
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Randy Priem is an adjunct professor at United Business Institutes (in partnership with Middlesex University London) where he teaches international financial management, fintech and financial markets to BA (hons) and MBA students. He is also a guest researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven where he used to teach corporate finance courses. He conducts research in the area of financial markets, private equity investments, and mutual funds. He is also a research associate at the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels. He published in several international journals such as the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and European Management Review. He presented his work at various international conferences in e.g. Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Brussels, Paris, London, Istanbul, Vallendar, Porto, Nottingham, and Houston.
Randy Priem holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and worked as a visiting researcher at the Schulich School of Business in Toronto (Canada).
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