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In this course, we will cover everything you need to know to be knowledgeable about residential mortgages in the United States. We will look at the important players/departments in the space as well as key terminology that you need to know. We will spend some time un-packaging the consumer buying cycle and examine the life cycle of the mortgage. In addition, we will spend some time examining what goes into originating, servicing and valuing a mortgage by examining the metrics that make up the loan process. We will examine the tools that help a company make a sound credit worthiness decision, by exploring the credit report and the real estate appraisal. Finally, we will demystify the securitization process by looking at the process of mortgage securitization and its benefits. The makeup of the course is as follows, containing nearly 30 modules over 3 sections:

• U.S. Residential Mortgage Business and Process Fundamentals
• U.S. Residential Mortgage Analysis: Bringing It All Together
• Loan Management, Servicing and Securitization

This course's contents consists of a video introductions for each section, outlining the key elements to be covered, followed by each module, consisting of a narrated presentation.

• Trade Execution
• Trade Capture
• Trade Enrichment
• Trade Confirmation
• Trade Settlement
• Reconciliation

This comprehensive course will cover a variety of issues relating to yield curves, their construction, and their use in a variety of analytical applications to assess risk and return. The course consists of 19 lectures among 5 sections, including topics within:

• Introduction to Yield Curves
• Duration and its Applications
• The Level of Rates and Shape of the Yield Curve
• Spot Rates and Forward Rates
• Total Return Analysis

This course will introduce you to a variety of the more  commonly-encountered types of mortgage-backed securities, pass-through  securities, and CMO's, as well as a lot of the concepts used to assess  the attractiveness of mortgage-backed securities and a lot of the  details to help understand mortgage-backed securities and how they work.

        This course contains 21 lectures among 4 sections:

• Introduction to Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Securities
• Pass Through Securities
• Analysis of Pass Through Securities
• Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

This course looks at interest rate swaps in detail. First, swaps in general are introduced, then we will be looking at the structure of the most common type of interest rate swap - the fixed or floating interest rate swap. We will also consider a variety of different structures, pricing and valuation, and applications - both risk management and speculative. This course contains 20 lectures within 5 sections:

• Introduction to Interest Rate Swaps
• Risk Management of Floating Rate Liabilities
• OTC Clearinghouses
• Swap Pricing and Valuation
• Risk Management with Interest Rate Swaps

This course will introduce you to the market for fixed income securities, provide you with a lot of details on the characteristics of fixed income securities in general, as well as discuss specific characteristics of specific sectors of the fixed income market - insurers, investors, and a wide variety of concepts relating to the analysis and validation of those securities. This course consists of 24 lectures classified within three sections:

• Introduction to Fixed Income Securities
• Bond Contract Features and Investment Characteristics
• Types of Fixed Income Securities

The following types of fixed income securities are introduced and discussed:

• Government Securities
• US Treasury Securities
• Corporate Fixed Income Securities
• Convertible Securities
• Structured Securities
• Mortgage Backed Securities
• Asset Backed Securities
• Credit Card and Auto Loan Asset Backed Securities
• Collateralized Debt Obligations
• Agency Securities & Regional/Local Government Debt Securities

This course will introduce you to a wide variety of calculations and  related concepts that are used by financial market participants in a  wide variety of applications - calculating prices, rates of return, and  yields for example. These concepts and more will be discussed.

       This course consists of 15 modules, broken out into 3 sections:

• Interest Rate Conventions and Time Value of Money
• Debt Security Pricing
• Bond Yields and Rates of Return

The course contains approximately 2 and a half hours of video content, and supplementary PDF files of the instructor's presentation are included to help participants follow along.

This course will give you a broad overview of this rapidly-evolving section of the derivatives markets. Swaps in general will be introduced, and then the course will segue into an introduction to equity swaps, look at the various details of the contracts, the applications that market participants use them for, as well as pricing and valuation issues. This course contains 18 lectures divided into5 sections, including:

• Introduction to Equity Swaps
• Equity Swap Contracts
• OTC Clearinghouses
• Equity Swap Structures and Applications
• Variance Swaps

A comprehensive course designed to furnish credit professionals with  the necessary tools in order to undertake effective, conclusion-based credit analysis. Participants will develop their analytical skills  through the application of a logical structured framework. Starting with identification of the deal and credit structure, it logically works  through the analysis process from business risk to financial risk then to structural risk. In addition it will compare and contrast different industry dynamics. This course contains 42 lectures across 8 sections, introducing and then covering each concept in-depth and providing examples.