Financial Markets - An Introduction

  • Level: Beginner
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Access: Lifetime
Write your awesome label here.
This free course defines financial markets and outlines their key characteristics, focusing on the ways in which money shifts between participants. It describes the types of financial markets that exist, the products they offer, the people and organizations involved in them, and the different types of marketplace.  

This course is suitable for desktop, tablet & mobile use.

Course Outline

Financial markets affect all our lives, but many of us do not fully understand them. What are their functions? Who needs them? What products do they offer? Where are they? How do they operate? How are they changing? This course defines financial markets and outlines their key characteristics, focusing on the ways in which money shifts between participants. It describes the types of financial markets that exist, the products they offer, the people and organizations involved in them, and the different types of marketplace.

What You Will Learn

Topic 1: Financial Markets - An Introduction

  • Financial Markets
  • Funding Markets
  • Transactional Markets
  • Risk Management Markets
  • Financial Market Participants
  • Marketplace Characteristics
Gain a professional asset allocation certificate

Gain Industry Knowledge and a Certification

 Test your knowledge throughout each tutorial with
regular review questions. 
  End each tutorial with a short, graded test designed to enhance knowledge retention.
  Gain a shareable professional certification.

Sign up to our Finance eLearning Newsletter with your email and avail of a 15% discount on your first purchase!