My Notes

This is my personal website. Through this website, I am sharing my notes on various topics that I have been making over the years. Predominantly, the notes are on financial markets as I have been working in that industry for over 20 years now. I hope my notes would be useful to you. Please do share your comments and suggestions by writing to me at 'pvijaykumar1978@gmail.com'.

• Basel Regulation
• Reg W
• Dodd-Frank Act
• FRTB
• Wealth Management
• Glossary of terms used in MiFID
• Indian Family Law - I
• Other Peoples money and how the bankers used it
• A Brief on Structured Products and Exotic Derivatives
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 1
• The First Stock Market Bubble
• Economic crisis of the PIIGS Economies
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 2
• Legal Maxims and Technical Words
• List of various Financial Institutions
• Money Laundering and Anti-Money Laundering
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 3
• Criminal Law - The Indian Penal Code, 1860
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 4
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 5
• Videos
• Glossary of terms used in Financial Markets
• Indian Labour and Industrial Law
• MiFID
• Principles of Law of Contract
• ISDA 2006 Definitions
• Eurodollar Futures
• Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI)
• Alternative Investment Funds in India (AIF)
• Alternative Reference Interest Rates
• Understanding Repo and Repo Markets
• Uniform Rules for Bank-to-Bank Reimbursements under Documentary Credits (URR 725)
• Summary of some CFTC Rules
• ISO Currency Codes - ISO 4217
• Day Count Conventions
• Quantitative Easing
• Negative Interest Rates
• Data List
• General Overview on Banking
• A Brief Overview on Hedge Funds
• Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) Reporting
• Weather Derivatives
• Indian Companies Act 2013 - Oppression and Mismanagement - Past, Present & Future
• Volcker Rule
• European Market Infrastructure Regualation (EMIR)
• Cassini Maps
• Foreign Account Tax Compliant Act (FATCA)
• Definition of common finance terms used in financial statements of banks
• Smart Derivatives Contracts
• Unique Product Identifier (UPI) and ISDA Taxonomy for OTC Derivatives
• Systematic Internaliser (SI)
• ISDA Common Domain Model (ISDA CDM)
• Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
• Random Variable or Stochastic Variable
• Hypothecation, Pledge and Hire-Purchase
• European Union - Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)
• Market Abuse
• Statistical Fallacies
• American Depository Receipts (ADRs)
• Preference Shares
• Indian Depository Receipts (IDRs)
• Question Bank in Financial Markets - 6
• Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
• Global Depository Receipts (GDRs)
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
• National Market System (NMS) - USA
• National Best Bid and Offer (NBBO) - USA
• Consolidated Tape Association, USA
• Credit Ratings and Credit Rating Agencies
• Sovereign Wealth Funds
• Block Deals on Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)
• Limit Up and Limit Down (LULD) plan on US Stock Exchanges
• Prime Brokerage
• Delta, Delta Hedging and Dynamic Hedging
• Portfolio Compression
• Contingent Convertible Bonds (CoCo Bonds)
• Value at Risk
• Measurement of Stock Price Volatility
• Agricultural Commodity Derivatives
• Difference between Futures and Stocks or ETFs (US Market)
• Delivery process in physically settled future contracts in CME, USA
• Product moves in exchanges
• US Elections and Volatility
• Implied Volatility
• Electricity Derivatives
• Macroeconomic Indicators
• Pricing of Forward Rate Agreement (FRA)
• Pricing of Single Name Credit Default Swap (CDS)
• Valuation of a Forward Rate Agreement (FRA)
• Sigma Notation (Mathematics)
• Crude Oil Derivatives
• World Uncertainty Index (WUI)
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Corporate Stubs
• Corporate Actions - where do they fit in the trade lifecycle?
• Trade Reporting vs Transaction Reporting
• An insight into the upcoming ISDA 2020 Definitions
• Non Financial Regulatory Reporting (NFFR)
• Brexit
• TARGET Services of the European Union
• Overview of ISDA Documentation
• Credit Sensitive Notes
• Euro Currency vs. Eurocurrency
• Clock Synchronisation under MiFID II
• ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallback Protocol
• Straddle and Strangle - Option Strategies
• Digital Options or Binary Options
• IBOR Transistion, ISDA Supplement, Protocol and Bilateral Agreements
• Singapore OTC Derivatives Transaction Reporting Rules (MAS OTCD Reporting)
• Mathematical Symbols and their Meaning
• New CFTC Rules for Swap Data Reporting
• Wrong Way Risk
• Factors affecting Stock Options
• New Security Based Swaps Regulation, USA, 2021
• Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR)
• Paris Club of Creditors (Club de Paris)
• Post Trade Transparency
• The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023