Certificate Course on Financial Derivatives (12 weeks, 36 hours, Offline Program)

Name: Certificate Course on Financial Derivatives (12 weeks, 36 hours, Offline Program)
Start: 2025-08-31T18:30:00+06:00
Location: BGIC Tower (1st - 3rd & 8th-9th Floor), 34 Topkhana Road,, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Schedule

Sun, 31 Aug, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+06:00

Location

BGIC Tower (1st - 3rd & 8th-9th Floor), 34 Topkhana Road,, 1000 Dhaka, Bangladesh | Dhaka, DA

Learn about one of the most exciting and important areas in modern finance: derivatives.
Financial derivatives such as forwards, futures, swaps, and options allow a risk manager to mitigate or even eliminate unwanted risks, thereby allowing a company to focus on its comparative advantage.
The risk manager of a Bangladesh based company may enter into a forward contract on the British Pound Sterling to lock in the exchange rate for account receivable, and the risk manager of an airline company may enter into a futures contract on jet fuel to hedge against future increase in jet fuel price, or a bank may use credit default swaps to hedge the credit risk of a client. Interest rate and currency swaps give a company a lot of flexibility when choosing to finance a project with debt. A firm may lower its borrowing costs without any exposure to interest rate and/or currency risk.

An active portfolio management may use a put option on a stock index to protect against market downturns. If stock market returns are currently very volatile, one may use a collar on an index instead to finance the expensive put premium.
Financial derivatives allow investors to trade on future price movements with minimal upfront investments, thereby making financial markets more liquid and efficient. Investors in option markets may obtain favorable leverage ratios even without ever facing a margin call.
Derivatives are also often used to predict future prices or events.
The objective of this course is to help participants gain the institution and to provide the necessary skill for pricing and hedging of derivative securities, and for using them for investment, risk management, and prediction purposes. A wide range of application and real-life cases will be discussed, including the use of derivatives in asset management, the valuation of corporate securities such as stocks and corporate bonds, interest rate derivatives, credit derivatives, as well as commodities derivatives, and currency derivatives. In addition to theoretical discussions, emphasis will also be given to practical considerations of implementing strategies using derivatives as tools, especially when no-arbitrage conditions do not hold.
In order to provide a useful treatment of these topics in a fast-changing world of finance, it is necessary to stress fundamentals and to explore topics at a technical level.
Specifically, this course will enable the participants to analyze a problem/situation involving derivatives so that they also know how to deal with a different one in the future.
If you are really curious about learning all these, then this course welcomes you!
Classes will be held on Sundays from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM at the BICM Campus (34 Topkhana Road, Dhaka - 1000, Adjacent to Metro Rail Station, Exit - B, Bangladesh Secretariat Stoppage) starting 31 August 2025 [12 weeks program, one class each week]
Registration fee: Tk.6,000/- (Six thousand only) payable using major cards and wallets including nagad, bKash, rocket, VISA, and MasterCard
Registration deadline: 30 August 2025
For online registration and payment, visit www.bicm.ac.bd/certificate-course, browse to the 'upcoming courses' section, choose the desired course and click on enroll now to proceed. In case you do not have an account with BICM, you need to create one before proceeding with registration and payment for the course.
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