Financial Markets: A Brief Overview
Published 12/2025
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Language: English | Duration: 1h 23m | Size: 1.5 GB
What you'll learn
This is an introductory course to provide a comprehensive understanding about financial markets, instruments and institutions.
This module covers a broad range of topics necessary to understand financial markets.
The students are expected to understand the basics of financial markets and systems.
The students can apply their learning to understand the real financial market situation or to study more advanced topics in finance.
Requirements
Calculus
Some prior finance knowledge is a plus but not required.
Description
This introductory module forms part of the full course "Financial Markets: From Basics to Advanced." It is designed to provide learners with a clear and structured foundation in financial assets, financial markets, and financial institutions. Students who find this overview valuable are encouraged to continue with the full course, where each topic is explored in greater depth and applied to more advanced financial concepts.The course begins by defining assets and focuses on financial assets as intangible, legally binding claims on future cash flows. It introduces the fundamental roles of borrowers (issuers) and lenders (investors) and examines key financial instruments such as bonds and stocks, emphasizing their differences in cash-flow structure, risk exposure, maturity, and classification as debt or equity.Building on this foundation, the course introduces essential valuation principles, including the time value of money, asset pricing, expected returns, and major sources of risk such as default (credit) risk, inflation (purchasing power) risk, and foreign exchange risk. Students then explore how financial markets operate to facilitate price discovery, provide liquidity, reduce transaction and information costs, and efficiently allocate capital.The course also examines the role of financial institutions, particularly banks and investment intermediaries, in channeling funds from surplus to deficit units, managing risk, offering investment and advisory services, and supporting the issuance and trading of financial assets. Finally, it discusses the rationale for financial market regulation and the roles of key participants, including households, firms, governments, regulators, and supranational organizations.Overall, this module establishes the conceptual framework necessary for understanding both basic and advanced topics in financial markets, preparing students for deeper analysis of interest rates, asset valuation, market structures, and financial institutions covered later in the full course.
Who this course is for
Beginner-level finance learners.
Intermediate-level finance learners seeking solid foundational knowledge in finance.
Advanced-level finance learners seeking more intuitive and structured knowledge of finance.
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