Finance Courses & Certifications

Investment banking still remains notoriously hard to break into. Its not uncommon for recruiters to receive thousands of applications for a single Investment Banking job opening. In this sea of …

trillion US dollars. That is the annual M&A deal volume as estimated by PwC. That is a big, juicy pie and investment banks and M&A consultants are tripper over themselves …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 car manufacturer …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Quantitative Finance/ Financial Engineering has earned a well-deserved reputation for a field where the smartest people like to converge. It’s a field that is populated by mathematicians, physicists, engineers and …

Despite of all the billions being poured into AI, machine learning and cognitive intelligence tools, good old Excel still remains the most reliable tool in a Banker’s arsenal. No matter …

Our personal finances are perhaps one of the most important aspects of our lives, second only to health and family. They determine our happiness, our wellbeing, and it is something …

Algorithmic trading has been used in one form or another for several decades now. In fact, there have been a couple of famous instances of unintended crashes due the algorithms …

Technical Analysis is all about using mathematics, statistics and other quantitative methods to see patterns in stock price, volume and other data. It is by no means an easy discipline …

Options trading is an exciting way to participate in the financial markets with minimal capital but maximum risk. I fell in love with options while learning about them in Business …

Human history is defined by the primary technologies that dominate that era. Bronze age, iron age, industrial age, atomic age, digital age etc. I strongly believe, and as do many …

Real Estate is one of the oldest investment instruments. Before English and Dutch traders figured out joint stock ownership in the 16th century, the real estate sector was the biggest …

The foreign exchange or forex market is one of the largest in the world with trillions being traded each day. Most of it is of course done via derivatives which …

Accounting is the language of business and you need to speak this language if you intend to do well in any finance or general business role. Accountants are not only …

Valuation is perhaps one of the most important skills in investment banking and corporate finance. So much of the finance world revolves around investing in debt or equities, acquiring other …

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 …