Finance Courses & Certifications

Hundreds, often thousands of candidates apply for each Investment Banking role each year. In this sea of candidates, you need something to stand out. You need something that makes your CV pop. Something that shows you are committed to this …

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 …

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 …

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 and even managing retail portfolios. If you are interested in …

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 …

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 …

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 what side of finance you work in, Excel is going …

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. …

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, …

“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 …

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 businesses or divisions or lending to these businesses. All of …

Leadership is by far the most valuable and sought-after skill in the world of business. Nothing else comes close. There is a reason why CEOs are paid more than anyone else in the company. There are a lot of great …

Managers spend the bulk of their time communicating, as much as 75% or more in some cases. Your effectiveness as a manager, as a salesperson, as a leader, as a marketer or in any roles is predicated upon how effectively …

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 …

The vast majority of the workforce is employed in salaried or part time jobs. Salaries jobs obviously have a certain appeal to them – stability, relative safety, division of roles and responsibilities, employer benefits etc. But for those of us …

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 other such professionals bringing in their expertise to mathematically tackle …

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 the record keepers of financial and business transactions, they are …

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 …

Credit analysis is one of the most important functions in the business world. It’s not just banks that give out loans but companies in other industries also routinely take risk on their counterparts like suppliers, distributors, vendors etc. and their …

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 …