Finance Courses & Certifications

The reason companies spend billions on branding each year is because it makes the buyer more confident about purchasing their product. The product has to be good, obviously, but it also has to stand out. Hundreds of candidates apply for …

Credit analysis is a foundational concept in banking. It forms the basis of corporate and retail lending, and also project finance, commercial real estate, trade finance lending, debt capital markets etc. For a comprehensive look at credit analyst careers, check …

Corporate Finance is the bedrock of investment and corporate banking. No wonder then that business schools spend a good chunk of the first year teaching students the basics of corporate finance. This knowledge almost always comes handy and is utilized …

Financial Modeling is an integral part of what you do in finance in general and banking in particular. In fact, it might be all you do for the first few years of your career. Setting yourself apart during the recruitment …

Mergers & Acquisitions are  inseparable components of corporate growth strategy. From SMEs to international conglomerates, mergers  drive growth, produce synergy and create additional value out of thin air. But these M&A transactions can be very costly and tricky to get …

Risk Management has taken on a new impetus since the 2007 financial crisis. The global financial collapse proved that the old risk management and credit rating systems were faulty. They were based on assumptions about event probabilities that were inaccurate. …

Wealth Management (called Private Banking by some banks) is a rapidly growing field within finance. It is driven by the rapid economic growth of the last three decades, which has been further compounded by the rapid increase in prosperity in …

Portfolio Management is a science and it is an art form. There is a lot of economic theory that goes into managing a portfolio of assets and no portfolio manager can succeed without this statistical, econometric and financial knowledge. However, …

The worlds debt markets dwarf the equity markets. Everyone from national governments, and multilateral institutions to large corporations and even city councils issue bonds. An army of skilled finance professionals handle the issuance of these bonds in the primary market …

Finance roles usually tend to be quite abstract. You spend most of your time poring over spreadsheets or communicating remotely with clients or other stakeholders. That’s just the way it is. But I was always a bit envious of my …

“Financial Analyst” is as broad a term as you can come across in finance. A financial analyst can be someone building projections for the next quarter for a shoe manufacturer to someone analysing the returns on investment grade emerging market …

Quantitative Finance/ Financial Engineering has a reputation for being a hard-to-get-into field, but it still attracts thousands of very bright young minds each year. The role of a quant or a quantitative trader has been romanticised by the media and …

Derivatives are one of the best things to happen to finance and even large main street companies. They allow for cheaply and quickly hedging risks or underlying exposures in a highly liquid market. For all their beauty and complexity, derivatives …

Trade Finance careers offer a unique opportunity to feel the pulse of global commerce or even help build local supply chains. It straddles a fine line between main street and the banks that finance them. You get a feel for …

Business Analytics (BA) is a ridiculously rapidly growing field within finance. BA provides corporate leadership with data driven insights to manage and grow their businesses. In that sense, it essentially is a combination of in-house market research, data science and …

The FRM certification has been consistently gaining popularity over the last decade or so. Banks, corporations and regulators alike were shocked into action after the last financial crisis and Risk Management is now more important in all areas of banking …

I look back with fondness at the simpler days when I was preparing for my FRM Level 1 exam over a decade ago. The pleasantness of that memory can undeniably be attributed to nostalgia though. Because I can assure you …

As per the Global Association of Risk Professionals (the entity that awards the FRM certification), 9 of the top 10 FRM recruiters in the world are banks. Due to the very nature of the FRM core curriculum, it is a …

Risk Management is more important than ever before. The business cycle of boom and bust has quickened and we seem to be getting a crisis every decade. Banks, Regulators, large corporate and small businesses alike are focusing on Financial Risk …