A series of mini-webinars
During 7 sequential weeks, this series of micro-learnings allows you to master a field of expertise, namely “Markets, Products & Pricing”, while being led by a content specialist. Meanwhile, you meet other participants (e.g., employees of market operators, facilitators, and participants, your peers), bringing a networking opportunity.
Each weekly session starts with a short lecture from an industry specialist, providing you with insights on one of the listed topics. Right after, the floor opens for Q&A, exchange of thoughts, and debates. After all, the best learning happens through interaction.
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Markets, Products & Pricing
During 7 sequential weeks, on Monday’s, 10:00-11:00 CET.
- Week 1: The trade lifecycle: deal capture to settlement
- Week 2: Confirmations, matching & allocations
- Week 3: Trade finance & letters of credit
- Week 4: Shipping, logistics & demurrage in physical trading
- Week 5: Scheduling in gas & power markets
- Week 6: Back-office best practices & system automation
- Week 7: Common pitfalls in operations & lessons from failures
Q&A
Each week the content-expert will address your questions in these fields:
- Markets: Market structures, design and working
- Contracts: Supply contracts + derivative contracts (e.g. futures, options & swaps)
- Pricing: Price drivers, price formation, liquidity, volatility, price-indexation
- Trading Strategies: Physical & financial trading
- Trade Operations: Shipping, nomination, clearing, settlement, collateral & margining
- Risk: Risk management of positions & portfolios
- Hedging: Hedging strategies and hedging tools
- Flexibility: Outright, embedded & real options
- Inside Information: Qualification, publication, corporate actions, insider trading
- Manipulation: Schemes, interpretation, context
- Trade Compliance: Effectiveness, corporate culture
- Trade Surveillance: Systems, calibration, alert management