Fin230 - Financial Markets and Institutions

This course explains and analyzes how financial markets and institutions work and interact with each other.  The aim of the course is to give a general idea about the financial markets, where funds change hands.  The first part of this course is the overview of financial markets.  Later the role of the Central Bank in the financial system and economy is discussed by using Federal Reserve as an example.  The second part of the course is the analysis of specific financial markets and institutions namely foreign exchange market, stock market, investment banking, mortgage market, banking and bank regulations.