FINC 765 - Money and Capital Markets

3 Credits
Students acquire the analytical tools needed to understand why the financial marketplace behaves as it does and how financial decisions should be made. This course describes how today’s financial markets operate and where they appear to be headed, as well as how money and capital markets around the globe work to facilitate savings and investments, make payments, supply credit, accumulate wealth, supply liquidity, protect against risk, and support public policy.

Grade Note(s): A grade of C or better is required on the final assessment in order to earn a passing grade in this course.
Prerequisite(s): FINC 620
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Assess the major financial markets by examining their structure and functions with the financial system. Issues include the needs of market participants investors, corporate issuers, and financial intermediaries regulatory and tax factors securities trading and distribution mechanisms, as well as the underling financial instruments and their pricing.
2. Evaluate how and why the system of money and capital markets is changing today.
3. Assess the major types of financial institutions and financial instruments that are present and actively traded every day in today’s global money and capital markets.
4. Analyze the factors that determine and change interest rates and security prices.
5. Explain the function of domestic and foreign central banks and other government agencies and how they affect the financial system and the economy.
6. Examine current and future trends (financial, economic, social, and demographic) that are reshaping and altering the global financial system.