Learn about the types of Financial Markets and their influence on national and international economy, thanks to this Postgraduate diploma"

Why Study at TECH?

TECH is the world's largest 100% online business school. It is an elite business school, with a model based on the highest academic standards. A world-class center for intensive managerial skills education.   

TECH is a university at the forefront of technology, and puts all its resources at the student's disposal to help them achieve entrepreneurial success”

At TECH Global University

Innovation

The university offers an online learning model that balances the latest educational technology with the most rigorous teaching methods. A unique method with the highest international recognition that will provide students with the keys to develop in a rapidly-evolving world, where innovation must be every entrepreneur’s focus.

"Microsoft Europe Success Story", for integrating the innovative, interactive multi-video system. 

The Highest Standards

Admissions criteria at TECH are not economic. Students don't need to make a large investment to study at this university. However, in order to obtain a qualification from TECH, the student's intelligence and ability will be tested to their limits. The institution's academic standards are exceptionally high...  

95% of TECH students successfully complete their studies.

Networking

Professionals from countries all over the world attend TECH, allowing students to establish a large network of contacts that may prove useful to them in the future.  

100,000+ executives prepared each year, 200+ different nationalities.

Empowerment

Students will grow hand in hand with the best companies and highly regarded and influential professionals. TECH has developed strategic partnerships and a valuable network of contacts with major economic players in 7 continents.  

500+ collaborative agreements with leading companies.

Talent

This program is a unique initiative to allow students to showcase their talent in the business world. An opportunity that will allow them to voice their concerns and share their business vision. 

After completing this program, TECH helps students show the world their talent. 

Multicultural Context

While studying at TECH, students will enjoy a unique experience. Study in a multicultural context. In a program with a global vision, through which students can learn about the operating methods in different parts of the world, and gather the latest information that best adapts to their business idea. 

TECH students represent more than 200 different nationalities.  

Learn with the best

In the classroom, TECH’s teaching staff discuss how they have achieved success in their companies, working in a real, lively, and dynamic context. Teachers who are fully committed to offering a quality specialization that will allow students to advance in their career and stand out in the business world. 

Teachers representing 20 different nationalities. 

TECH strives for excellence and, to this end, boasts a series of characteristics that make this university unique:   

Analysis

TECH explores the student’s critical side, their ability to question things, their problem-solving skills, as well as their interpersonal skills.  

Academic Excellence

TECH offers students the best online learning methodology. The university combines the Relearning methodology (the most internationally recognized postgraduate learning methodology) with Harvard Business School case studies. A complex balance of traditional and state-of-the-art methods, within the most demanding academic framework.   

TECH is the world’s largest online university. It currently boasts a portfolio of more than 10,000 university postgraduate programs. And in today's new economy, volume + technology = a ground-breaking price. This way, TECH ensures that studying is not as expensive for students as it would be at another university.   

At TECH, you will have access to the most rigorous and up-to-date case analyses in academia” 

The Postgraduate diploma in Financial Institutions and Markets is an exhaustive program that is taught through a 100% online modality, make it possible to Monitoring in a flexible way. Thanks to its teaching methods, TECH offers a complete and rigorous qualification that is developed in only 6 months and with downloadable content that specialists can access at any time and place.

Expand your financial skills by mastering trading systems, CNMV and market regulation, thanks to TECH"

Syllabus

TECH's Postgraduate diploma in Financial Institutions and Markets is a comprehensive and rigorous program aimed at graduates in economics and senior managers, among other professions in this science. Its main aim is focused on expanding and updating financial knowledge focused on institutions and Financial Markets, so that specialists master the options markets, OTC derivative products, the foreign exchange market, as well as investment funds and the liberation of Financial Markets, among many other concepts.

To achieve this, TECH provides students with theoretical and practical exercises that, in addition to teaching them academically, also enable their application in economic practice. With this in mind, the University has adopted the most innovative methodology to facilitate and guarantee the financial training of students in the shortest possible time and in the most accessible way.

Over the half-year period, students will analyze the productive system of the Spanish economy, as well as its structure and sectoral changes; the Spanish labor market, international development and its economic challenges; international investment flows and economic integration, as well as the different agents involved, such as the IMF, ICSID, IBRD, WB, UNCTAD, WTO, GATT and MIGA, among others.

It is a degree based on the Relearning methodology to bring all the knowledge and current economic tools to the specialists, without the need to invest long hours of study in it. In addition, TECH has experts in the sector who are aware of all business opportunities to ensure that enrolled students acquire high-level skills in the economic and financial field. All this, through a 100% online modality that offers the possibility of adapting the study to personal and professional needs.

This Postgraduate diploma takes place over 6 months and is divided into 3 modules:

Module 1. Financial Institutions and Markets
Module 2 .The Spanish Economy and World Economy
Module 3. International Economic Organizations

Where, When and How is it Taught?

TECH offers the possibility of developing this Postgraduate diploma in Financial Institutions and Markets completely online. Throughout the 6 months of the educational program, you will be able to access all the contents of this program at any time, allowing you to self-manage your study time.

Module 1. Financial Institutions and Markets

1.1. Financial Markets

1.1.1. Financial Markets Characteristics 
1.1.2. Financial Markets Functions 
1.1.3. Financial Markets Components 

1.2. Types of Financial Markets

1.2.1. Financial Markets According to Traded Rights
1.2.2. Financial Markets According to the Term of the Assets Traded
1.2.3. Financial Markets According to the Time of Issuance of Assets
1.2.4. Financial Markets According to Their Organizational Structure
1.2.5. Financial Markets by time of of delivery of the asset

1.3. Financial Market Supervisory Entities

1.3.1. European Central Bank and Bank of Spain
1.3.2. General Management of Insurance and Pension Funds
1.3.3. National Securities Market Commission

1.4. Stock Markets

1.4.1. The Stock Market
1.4.2. Futures Market
1.4.3. Options Markets

1.5. Fixed Income Market

1.5.1. Spot Interest Rates and Forward Interest Rates
1.5.2. Public Debt Market
1.5.3. AIAF Market

1.6. Equity Markets

1.6.1. Trading Systems
1.6.2. CNMV and Market Regulation
1.6.3. Securities and Stock Exchange Operations
1.6.4. IPOs

1.7. Futures Market

1.7.1. Forward Contracts
1.7.2. Futures on Interest
1.7.3. Exchange Rate Futures
1.7.4. Stock Index Futures

1.8. Options Markets

1.8.1. Speculative Operations
1.8.2. Continuous Arbitrage Operations
1.8.3. The Price of an Option Contract
1.8.4. Use of Options in Hedging
1.8.5. Characteristics of an Options Portfolio

1.9. OTC Derivative Products

1.9.1. FRA markets
1.9.2. Swap
1.9.3. Cap, Floor and Collar

1.10. Foreign Exchange Market

1.10.1. Operation and Regulatory Agencies
1.10.2. Spot Foreign Exchange Transactions
1.10.3. Parity Conditions
1.10.4. Exchange to Local Currency

1.11. Investment Funds

1.11.1. Fixed Income Funds
1.11.2. Mixed Fixed Income Funds
1.11.3. Mixed Equity Funds
1.11.4. Equity Funds

1.12. Financial Market Liberalization

1.12.1. Eurodollars and Eurobonds
1.12.2. New International Titles
1.12.3. Globalization

Module 2. The Spanish Economy and World Economy

2.1. An Overview of the Spanish Economy

2.1.1. Assessment and Integration in the European Communities

2.2. Production System: Structure and Sectoral Change

2.2.1. Sectorial Evolution

2.3. The External Sector in the Spanish Economy

2.3.1. The Spanish External Sector

2.4. The Public Sector in the Spanish Economy

2.4.1. The Public Sector

2.5. The Spanish Financial System

2.5.1. The Financial System Structure and Monetary Policy

2.6. The Labor Market in Spain

2.6.1. Characteristics of the Labor Market

2.7. International Development and Economic Challenges

2.7.1. Challenges in our Century

2.8. International Trade

2.8.1. The Importance of International

2.9. International Investment Flows

2.9.1. Types, Trends and Financial Markets

2.10. The International Financial and Monetary System

2.10.1. Current System, Institutions and Globalization

2.11. Economic Integration

2.11.1. Process and Effects

2.12. Economic Information Analysis

2.12.1. Steps in the Analysis

Module 3. International Economic Organizations

3.1. Introduction to International Economic Organizations

3.1.1. Developments in International Politics and Economics
3.1.2. Creation of the IEOs Features
3.1.3. Background of the IEOs

3.2. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bretton Woods system

3.2.1. History of the IMF
3.2.2. Services and Policies of the IMF
3.2.3. Institutional System and Operation

3.3. The World Bank Group(BM). Financial support for poverty reduction

3.3.1. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
3.3.2. International Development Association (IDA)
3.3.3. International Finance Corporation
3.3.4. Multilateral Investment Guarantee Organization
3.3.5. International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

3.4. Regional Banks and Development Aid

3.4.1. Regional Development Banks
3.4.2. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
3.4.3. African Development Bank (AfDB)
3.4.4. Asian Development Bank (AsDB)

3.5. The United Nations (UN). Economic and Trade Cooperation for Development

3.5.1. Introduction and Historical Summary
3.5.2. United Nations Cooperation Programs

3.5.2.1. UNCTAD
3.5.2.2. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

3.5.3. World Tourism Organization

3.6. The International Trading System I. The World Trade Organization (WTO)

3.6.1. From GATT to the WTO
3.6.2. Institutional System of the WTO
3.6.3. Dispute Settlement System
3.6.4. Substantive Law

3.6.4.1. Agreements on Goods and Services
3.6.4.2. Intellectual Property Agreements

3.6.5. WTO Disabilities

3.7. The International Trading System II. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

3.7.1. Introduction and Main Characteristics
3.7.2. Incorporation and Adaptation of the Different Countries to the GATT
3.7.3. Functioning and Applications of GATT

3.8. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Main Programs and Areas of Action

3.8.1. Institutional System
3.8.2. Main Programs and Lines of Action
3.8.3. Organizational Structure and OECD Countries

3.9. International Investment Organizations

3.9.1. Agreements for the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments (APRPI)
3.9.2. European Energy Charter Treaty
3.9.3. Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
3.9.4. Human Rights and Environmental Protection

3.10. Regional Economic Integration Initiatives

3.10.1. The European Union
3.10.2. Regional Economic Integration in America
3.10.3. Reach to Other Countries

An enriching experience that will give you the keys to master the international economic order based on the relations between the OEI and the rest of the countries”