Certified Investment Banking Operations Professional (CIBOP™)

Securities Trading Organization (STO) – See how sales trading, the trading desk, compliance, and operations divide work across the front office, middle office, and back office of an investment bank.

Reference Data Management (RDM) – Learn why static data like SSIs and security identifiers (ISIN, CUSIP, SEDOL) has to be accurate before a single trade can settle correctly.

Exchange Trade Life Cycle – Trace a trade from order placement through execution, capture, enrichment, validation, trade confirmation, and settlement, including the order types (market, limit, stop, GTC) and the Direct Market Access (DMA) and Electronic Communication Network (ECN) routes that drive how each leg behaves.

Settlement & Trade Reporting – Work through the T+1 settlement cycle, the clearing house's role in clearing and settlement, and MiFID II transaction reporting, and follow a real US equity trade through major clearing infrastructure such as NYSE, NSCC, and DTCC.

ISDA & OTC Derivatives – Unpack the ISDA Master Agreement, Schedule, and Credit Support Annex, and understand what actually triggers an Event of Default in a derivatives contract.

OTC Trade Life Cycle – Follow an OTC derivatives trade from initiation to collateral processing, and see how real market events, from the LTCM crisis to the Archegos collapse, trace back to the same operational weak points.

Custodian Banks – Understand how global, local, and sub-custodians safeguard assets and process corporate actions on behalf of investors, and why a custodian is not the same as a depository.

Reconciliations – Learn how internal recon (front office vs middle office) and external recon (Nostro and Depot accounts) catch breaks before they become client-facing problems.

Lending Operations & Loan Syndication – See how a single large Term Loan gets shared across multiple banks through loan syndication, including the kind of large-ticket financing that sits behind mergers and acquisitions, and walk through the fees, structures, and reconciliation breaks that define a loan's life cycle.

Corporate Actions – Work through bonus issues, stock splits, mergers and acquisitions, buybacks, and rights issues using real Indian and global examples, and learn why the record date and ex-date decide who actually benefits.

Accounting Fundamentals – Learn the Golden Rules of Debit and Credit and the full accounting cycle from journal entry to trial balance, grounded in GAAP, and see how it rolls up into the financial statements.

Financial Statements – Build the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement for a real fund company as a hands-on financial modelling and financial statements exercise, and see how each one feeds the next.

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) – Trace money through the three stages, placement, layering, and integration, and see how global banks like HSBC and BNP Paribas were fined billions for missing the same patterns.

Terror Financing & Regulatory Bodies – Understand how funds move through hawala and informal networks, and how FATF's black list and grey list actually shape global banking relationships.

Know Your Customer (KYC) – Work through Customer Acceptance Policy, Customer Identification, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), and learn why a Politically Exposed Person needs a different risk rating and level of scrutiny.

Sanctions & Screening – Learn how OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals list and sanctions screening work in practice, through real KYC remediation cases at firms like NatWest and Binance.

Transaction Monitoring & SAR – Build the instinct to spot red flags in customer behaviour and fund flows, and learn how a Suspicious Activity Report actually gets written and filed.

Asset Management & AMCs – See how an Asset Management Company builds a portfolio through asset allocation and diversification, reading a fund's financial statements to judge it, and who actually invests, from retail and institutional investors to hedge funds, private equity, and family offices.

Mutual Funds & Fund Structures – Learn how NAV is calculated as a daily fund valuation, how open-ended and closed-ended funds differ, and how to match a fund's risk profile to an investor's suitability.