Name: Repo (Repurchase Agreements)
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Rating: 4.72 (18 reviews)

Repo (Repurchase Agreements)

Overview

Repo (Repurchase Agreements) Course Overview

This Repo course examines the core concepts of short-term funding. We will look at the different types of repos, alongside who would use them and why, while assessing the risks of the trade along the way. From the nuances of what motivates a repo trade to how to calculate payments, we will go through the broadest concept to the smallest detail.

Who Should Take This Course?

This Repo (Repurchase Agreements) course is perfect for anyone looking to build a fulsome knowledge of capital markets. This course is designed to help those who are interested in careers in portfolio management, as well as sell-side trading, develop an understanding of how financial institutions use their assets to borrow and lend cheaply and efficiently. This course explores concepts that will be useful for beginner and intermediate level capital markets professionals, or business and finance students seeking to better understand money market products.

Repo (Repurchase Agreements) Learning Objectives

Explain the full life cycle of a repo trade from the perspective of both counterparties
Calculate repo interest, as well as security generated income (i.e., coupon), and understand their treatment
Identify the differences between general collateral and special repos, and in what scenario each trade type is used
Compare and contrast the differences between repos/reverse repos and buy sell backs/sell buy backs
Appreciate the risks associated with entering into repo trades and how they can be managed
Explain the concept of negative rates in the repo world and understand their significance

Prerequisite Courses

Recommended courses to complete before taking this course.

Fixed Income Fundamentals

What You'll Learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

Files

Qualified Assessment

This Course is Part of the Following Programs

Why stop here? Expand your skills and show your expertise with the professional certifications, specializations, and CPE credits you’re already on your way to earning.

Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA®) Certification

Skills Learned Trading strategies used in the finance and capital markets
Career Prep Work in capital markets, whether on the buy-side or the sell-side

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What Our Members Say

CMSA Course Feedback

Please add some research tolls tutorials also in CMSA Program like advance bloomberg , advance Capital IQ , Factset , Morningstar.

Anand Rohilla

Good course

Though calculations were a bit confusing, and terms need to be reviewed a bit thoroughly, I have no complaints

Mukupa Chitalu Sata

Knowledgeable!

Great course as it helped me understand better and strategies on a current assignment at hand.

Nkafu Njem

A great course for Repo

A comprehensive course for Repo with key concepts and real life examples

Kwong Sang Yeung

Great Assesment

One of the more challenging assestments which is good to see, makes sure you get it!

Darren McLaughlin

the best course material

This course was among the best ones I have attended. The course materials were very relevant and duly supported with some great examples. HATS off to CFI team

Mahesh Kumar

Good understanding of repo mechanisms

Provides a good understanding how what repo are and how they are used. That shed some light on why the Fed is doing those reverse repo.

Sylvain DAVID

Great course!

The information given about repo is very easy to understand.

Reri Nandar Munazat

Somehow found tricky

This course is somehow tricky at first glance. But if repeated, it will be so simple and easily executable.

Atinafu Asefa

Experience

Enjoyed the course breakdown

Newton Wachira

Repo-Repurchase Agreements was by far the best course I have completed. The instructor is extremely knowledgeable, clear voice, lot of real trade examples, cautions and alerts so that student does not get confused. Overall, very satisfying. At the end of the course feel received good knowledge and cleared concepts of repos and reverse repos and negative interest rate.

Atul Bhave

Course topic is Good

It needs real world examples with more computations explained in detail.

PETER FERNANDEZ

Awesome Course - You'll Definitely Learn Something New

This was an amazing course. It was also quite comprehensive. I discovered a lot more than I expected to about Repos.

DEVRHOID DAVIS

Clearly presented

Deceptively difficult.

Victor Saumarez

Insightful content

Good to learn about Repo in more details, do provide more examples on Negative Repo it is quite an interesting one. Overall, great and clear explanations around the types of repos, the mechanics and risks.

Linda Etuhole Nakasole

Wonderful Indeed

Anyone looking to add bonds to their portfolio should consider this course unit. Brilliant investments

Donald Patrick Okumu Ringa

The Repurchase Agreement is one other Elective course you should nt miss if you have studied Securities lending. Alot of good stuff in these two quite similar courses.

Sibulansa Juluta

Inspiring

I could learn a lot about Repo market and how it operates.

Inácio Essita

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