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Financial Product Briefing Notes.

Financial Products Briefing Notes

Financial Products Briefing Notes are a series of stand-alone briefing notes together with Excel pricing spreadsheets.

The briefing notes are a quick and easy aide-memoir to a specific financial product and are meant for non-market practitioners who want to have a good level of understanding of a specific financial product.

The information in each briefing note is as follows:

*  The name of the product and a cross reference to products
    which are similar.

* The regulatory framework within which the product is traded Including
     - Whether the product is trade on a listed exchange or over
        the counter market and the significant points of the ISDA
       Definitions
     - The quotation methodology and standard trade sizes
        and Maturity schedules

     - Bloomberg reference pages, codes and analytics

* Pricing methodology
     - Primary market
     - Secondary market

* Product applications and payout diagrams for
    - Trading strategies
    - Hedging strategies.

* Risk management calculations and methodologies using
    - Value at risk- VaR
    - Other methods

Briefing notes are available for

* Equity Market Products
         a. Futures
         b. Options
         c. Equity Swaps
         d. Variance Swaps
* Foreign Exchange Market Products
         a. Spot, Outright Forward, Futures and FX swap transactions
         b. Currency Swaps
         c. FX Options
* Fixed Income Products
         a. Government Bonds
         b. Corporate Bonds
         c. Bond Futures
         d. Interest Rate Swaps
         e. Interest Rate Options
             i. Caps, floors and collars
             ii. Options on Swaps
             iii. Bond Options
* Credit Market Products
         a Credit Default Swap
               i. Single name
              ii. Indices
             iii. Loan
         b. Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs)
               i. Cash
              ii. Synthetic
             iii. Hybrid
         c. Asset Backed Securities
               i. Residential Mortgages
              ii. Credit cards
             iii. Auto Loans


For further information on Financial Products Briefing Notes contact robin.brown@capital-consultancy.co.uk