Financial Markets & Products - Introduction

Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by khader.

One day workshop
Covers fundamental elements of Financial markets and products. Topics like:

Overview of Financial markets
Players and Structure of Financial markets

Buy Side Firms
Sell Side Firms
Exchanges
Regulatory Bodies (SEC)
Clearing Firms, Commercial banks

Categories of financial products

Equities
Fixed Income
Options & Futures
Other Derivatives

Regulatory agencies and their role

Securities Exchange Commission
Self regulatory Agencies (NYSE etc)

Download class presentation (ppt/pdf) : insidefinmkts_ksv_full

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FIX Protocol Training

Posted on 01. Feb, 2009 by khader.

As I promised, another one day FIX workshop will be conducted on Feb 15 ‘09. This is going to be one day course from 10AM to 4PM. (You can also watch my FIX Protocol video on YouTube)
I will be covering the following topics:
Part - 1 (Download Material -PDF)
FIX Protocol Introduction

Overview
History
Usage / Players
Message Types
Message Format
Communication Model
Anatomy [...]

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