
Explore how banking channels connect customers through branches, ATMs, and digital platforms, while highlighting branch decline, complex transactions, trust building, and the rise of neobanks in digital channels.
Understand how regulatory frameworks, deposit protection, suitability checks, data privacy, and GDPR safeguard retail banking customers and promote informed, secure choices.
Explore how ai and automation drive ai-powered customer service, automated credit decisions, and personalized financial advice, while open banking, api-driven data sharing, digital currencies, and esg-focused banking reshape retail banking.
Explore asset-based and secured financing in business banking, backed by inventory, equipment, or accounts receivable, and syndicated loans for large corporate projects requiring sophisticated risk assessment and coordination.
Navigate trade finance and supply chain solutions, including letters of credit, bank guarantees, supply chain financing, and invoice discounting and factoring to optimize risk and working capital.
Understand common business banking fees, including wire transfer and cash handling charges, and explore ach and open banking options to reduce fees and avoid minimum balance requirements.
Explore income producing investment solutions across savings and investments, including cash deposits and fixed term deposits, bonds, preferred stocks, dividend paying stocks, income funds, and real estate investment trusts.
Apply a product selection framework to balance risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity, income stability versus growth, and tax implications, with guidance from a financial advisor.
Deliver tailored private banking and wealth management for affluent clients with substantial investable assets, offering a relationship-driven, holistic model with dedicated advisors, privacy, and favorable terms.
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The Financial Services industry is one of the most widely publicised, we all interact with it in different ways and yet sometimes we don't know what goes on within.
Fundamentals of Financial Services has been developed as an introductory repository of information for the way the industry works.
It is developed with the following potential learners in mind:
- Anyone new to the industry
- Anyone seeking knowledge about the basics relating to FS institutions, products and services
- Anyone sitting the any financial services exams - foundation or basic levels, including:
New employees at various financial institutions
Anyone interested in Economics and the Economy
CISI Level 2 “Fundamentals of Financial Services” candidates
ACCA students
AAT students
Finance diploma, degree students
Accounting diploma, degree students
Tax students
Financial Services entry level
Banking entry level
Apprentices in the Financial Services industry
Anyone interested in Economics and the Economy
We developed it to help people:
- Prepare for exams
- Learn more about the Financial Services industry
- Get a good foundation of the basics within the industry
We have provided information to suite the above mentioned groups of people and also anyone curious about the topic.
We wish you success your endeavour's within the industry and look forward to interacting with you on LinkedIn.
This extensive, well-rounded course is designed to be a reference and resource for you to come back to at various times, addressing questions you might have relating to the very many areas covered.
We welcome your feedback, questions and comments.