Self-Paced
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses
Algorithmic Trading in Investment Funds
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains what the Algorithmic trading is, the three core categories of Algorithmic trading, its history and how the Algorithmic trading expanded in the modern...
Understanding the role, responsibilities and organizational requirements of the Regulatory Compliance Function
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the duties and responsibilities as well...
Internal Organisation and Governance of Electronic Money Institutions and Payment Institutions and Risk Analysis of their operations
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the requirements relating to the development...
Legal framework that regulates the activities of EMIs and PIs and the main risks for the business operations of those financial institutions
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides an...
Introduction to Wealth Management – Part II
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains basic financial mathematics including the Simple and Compound Interest, the formula of the future value of an amount invested now at a given rate of interest, the...
Introduction to Wealth Management – Part I
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the meaning of “Wealth Management”, “Family Offices” and why someone may need a “Family Office”. It elaborates on the meaning of “Advising Clients”, the investor types and...
Valuation Methods for Stocks and Bonds
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the valuation methods for Stocks and Bonds and elaborates on Bond features, Coupon Rates and Interest Rates. As a financial instrument, a Bond represents...
Best Execution, Unfair Practices, and Money Laundering
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the definition of “Best Execution” and elaborates on Articles 27 and 28 of Directive 2014/65/EU. It also provides a number of Questions and Answers on Best Execution...
Board of Directors and the Senior Management of CIFs
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. The management body of an investment firm should ensure a suitable and transparent organisational and operational structure for that investment firm and should have a written...
Organizational Requirements of CIFs
15 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 15 CPD Units. This course explains the conditions that an applicant for CIF authorization should satisfy to obtain CySEC’s authorization to operate as a CIF and the requirements that a CIF should comply with in order to provide investment services and/or...
Market Abuse, Recommendations and Best Execution
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes in brief the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and explains why a MAR is needed. The Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of...
Best Execution: Policy, Arrangements, Application, Assessment
10 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 10 CPD Units.This course explains the concept of best execution and how investment firms can comply with their best execution obligations...
Copy Trading, Market Abuse, Compliance, and EMIR Refit
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course explains the ancillary service of Investment Research and Financial Analysis. Investment research is an ancillary service, i.e. “providing necessary support to the primary activities or...
Conflict of interest arising from FX models and outsourcing risks
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course analyses the various FX broker models and explains how (a) Dealing Desk (DD) FX broker/ Authorised Market Maker, (b) Non-Dealing-Desk (NDD) or ‘Straight through processing’ Model (STP) and...
Product Governance and KIID/PRIIP Preparation
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for up to 5 CPD Units. To avoid and reduce from an early stage potential risks of failure with investor protection rules, investment firms, manufacturing and distributing financial instruments should comply with...
Product Governance: Product Review Process (PRP)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. Regulation requires that product manufacturers “regularly review” their products. This course explains the Product Review Process (PRP) and analyses each step of the PRP. It provides an...
Risk Management in the Financial Services Industry (UCITS, AIF, AIFM)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course aims to describe the risk management in the financial services industry and explains the various risks that investment managers face when investing their clients' funds. It offers...
Product Governance: Product Approval Process (PAP)
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course describes the concept of product Manufacturer and product Distributor and explains the main objective of product governance requirements as well as the main principles of...
Assessment of suitability A to Z
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course analyses the requirements that MiFID II and MiFID II Delegated Regulation place on investment firms when they provide investment advice or discretionary portfolio management services. These...
Information addressed to clients by Investment Firms
5 CPD
The course can be accredited by regulators and other bodies for 5 CPD Units. This course provides an in-depth analysis of the information that investment firms should provide to their clients or potential clients. It describes in detail the....
