ACI Dealing Certificate Training Course

  • ACI Dealing Certificate Training Course
  • Portugal - Lisbon

ACI Dealing Certificate Training Course

Course Category : Risk Management

This advanced programme provides a solid foundation in global financial-market operations, FX and money-market instruments, derivatives, and risk management, equipping participants with the competencies required to successfully achieve the internationally recognised ACI Dealing Certificate.
Duration: 5 Days
Level: Intermediate–Advanced.

Starts On

13 - July - 2026

Ends On

17 - July - 2026

Location

Portugal - Lisbon

Language

English

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Targeted Audience

  • Junior and intermediate dealers in trading rooms.
  • Middle-office and treasury-operations personnel.
  • Compliance officers and risk-management professionals.
  • Individuals seeking advancement in financial-market careers.

Targeted Skills

  • Global financial-market comprehension.
  • Interest-rate and yield-calculation skills.
  • FX dealing and pricing capabilities.
  • Understanding derivatives (FRAs, Futures, Swaps, Options).
  • Risk-analysis and position-management skills.
  • Trading-system monitoring and operational awareness.

Expected Outcomes

  • Master the time-value-of-money principles and related calculations.
  • Compute yields, forward rates, and interest-rate relationships.
  • Understand the structure and characteristics of money-market instruments.
  • Apply spot FX pricing and essential FX-market terminology.
  • Hedge interest-rate and FX risk using derivatives.
  • Analyse positions and monitor market risk.
  • Manage swap-dealing operations effectively.
  • Understand FX and interest-rate option fundamentals.
  • Apply ALM principles for balance-sheet optimisation.
  • Identify and manage market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks.

Training Topics Index

  • Present- and future-value calculations.
  • Day-count conventions and yield conversions.
  • EURIBOR, LIBOR, EONIA definitions.
  • Broken-date calculations and interpolations.
  • Forward-rate calculations.
  • Money-market vs. bond-basis conversions.
  • Yield-curve construction and analysis.
  • Profit analysis and trading-system monitoring.

  • Characteristics of money-market instruments.
  • Domestic, foreign, and offshore markets.
  • Repo vs. sell/buy-back structures.
  • Collateral and custody arrangements.
  • Customer-transaction handling and profitability.
  • System monitoring for cash/Repo instruments.

  • Base vs. quoted currency.
  • Spot/bid/offer pricing.
  • Forward points and interest-rate parity.
  • Precious-metals settlement vs. book entry.
  • FX risk monitoring and cover-deal analysis.
  • Trading-system readiness for FX operations.

  • Mechanics of forward-forward contracts.
  • FRA calculation, hedging, and settlement.
  • Money-market futures and variation margin.
  • Swap-dealing operations (early & normal shifts).
  • Cash-flow verification and risk monitoring.
  • System-support functions for swap instruments.

  • Option definitions and components.
  • Call/put structures and payoff profiles.
  • Premium valuation and settlement.
  • OTC vs. exchange-traded options.
  • Monitoring option-related risk exposures.
  • System readiness for option pricing.

  • ALM definitions and concepts.
  • Impact of interest-rate, FX, liquidity, and credit risk.
  • Gap-management and duration-techniques.
  • Hedging using derivatives.
  • Credit-transfer instruments and securitisation.
  • Monitoring covered ALM transactions.

  • Market, credit, and operational-risk frameworks.
  • Legal, regulatory, and reputational risk.
  • Liquidity-risk assessment.
  • Monitoring risk from swaps and cover deals.
  • Trading-system support for full compliance.