Prime Services and Securities Lending

The Prime Services and Securities Lending course aims to guide you to understand how the prime services team provides specialized services to help hedge funds make money and how securities lenders facilitate the shorting of stocks. Once you get started, you will comprehend how prime services (i.e., prime brokers) attracts investors, provides leverage, maintains margin requirements, performs clearing and settlement functions, offers custodial services, and produces real-time reporting for their hedge fund clients. Next, you will cover the securities lending function, where you will understand what securities lending is and identify key differences between short-sellers, stock lenders, and long-sellers. You will recognize how and why market participants may ‘short’ stocks. As short-selling is crucial to the stock market, we will analyze short-selling activity using multiple short equity metrics such as short interest and short interest ratio on Refinitiv Workspace screen.  

 

 

About This Course
The Prime Services and Securities Lending course aims to guide you to understand how the prime services team provides specialized services to help hedge funds make money and how securities lenders facilitate the shorting of stocks. Once you get started, you will comprehend how prime services (i.e., prime brokers) attracts investors, provides leverage, maintains margin requirements, performs clearing and settlement functions, offers custodial services, and produces real-time reporting for their hedge fund clients. Next, you will cover the securities lending function, where you will understand what securities lending is and identify key differences between short-sellers, stock lenders, and long-sellers. You will recognize how and why market participants may ‘short’ stocks. As short-selling is crucial to the stock market, we will analyze short-selling activity using multiple short equity metrics such as short interest and short interest ratio on Refinitiv Workspace screen.

Outline

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand what prime services is and how it fits within a bank
• Describe the range of prime services activities
• Recognize how and why market participants may ‘short’ stocks
• Comprehend how securities lending works and who are the market participants
• Calculate the cash flows involved in securities lending

Who Should Attend

This Prime Services and Securities Lending course is perfect for anyone looking to build a complete understanding of capital markets. This course is designed to help those interested in careers in prime services, securities lending, hedge funds, portfolio management, and other sell-side trading careers. This course explores concepts useful for beginner and intermediate level capital markets professionals or business and finance students seeking to better understand securities lending transactions.

About Our Expert
		Andrew Loo  Prior to joining CFI, Andrew Loo worked in financial services for over 20 years in retail, commercial and investment banking roles. He retired from investment banking in 2017 as Managing Director at Nomura Securities in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for managing relationships with the key Central Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds, and other key investors, as well as spearheading the firm’s sales efforts into the People’s Republic of China as Chairman of the China Operating Committee. Before joining Nomura, Andrew was Executive Director and Head of Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and Commodities (FICC) for Hong Kong at UBS AG within their investment bank division. Throughout his investment bank career, he was also very passionate about teaching and developing talent as well as a keen lifelong learner. Hence, Andrew was naturally very excited about joining CFI with its significant global reach of eager learners. As VP of Capital Markets, Andrew brings his real-world experience in Capital Markets to the CMSA program.

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Registration
Membership Type	Price
Members	$ 80.00
Non Members	$ 88.00

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