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FIN 226 - Financial Markets and Institutions 
Final Examination Guide and Notes 2025 
 
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University of Wollongong - FIN 226: Financial Markets and Institutions

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024 - 2025

University	University of Wollongong
Study Level	Undergraduate
Subject Code	FIN 226
Subject Name	Financial Markets & Institutions
Notes Title	Final Examination Guide and Notes
Page Length	28

This concise FIN 226: Financial Markets and Institutions at the University of Wollongong - Final Examination Guide and Notes 2025 covers essential steps to understand the relevant theories in this subject. The illustrations and worked examples demonstrate the essential workings to apply those theories. Once you have finished studying your course materials, you can take a sample exam with solutions and explanations provided, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience. With this guide, you can aim for the best grade with the help of relevant and accessible notes, examiner advice, plus questions and answers on each key examinable topic.

This subject, Financial Markets and Institutions (FIN 226) - examines the history and development of financial institutions and financial markets in Australia and elsewhere. Topics covered include: the role of the financial system; functions of financial markets; money markets and capital markets; the banking and payments system; financial systems regulation; the operations of the stock exchange; corporate and government debt markets; the Euromarket; and, derivative markets.

✔ On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:

define the key attributes of financial markets and discuss how those attributes affect trading on those markets;
describe the nature and characteristics of money market and bond trading;
describe the mechanisms used by different stock exchanges for the trading of equity securities;
describe the different mechanisms used by the various commodity and derivative exchanges for the trading of derivative securities;
describe the global currency market and outline the role of the participants within this market;
define and evaluate the role of derivative trading upon the market for the underlying assets; and,
outline the role that fund managers have had upon the functioning and characteristics of global financial markets.

SUBJECT CODE	SUBJECT NAME
ACCY111	Accounting Fundamentals in Society
ACCY112	Accounting in Organisations
ACCY200	Financial Accounting IIA
ACCY211	Management Accounting II
COMM121	Statistics for Business
ECON100	Economic Essentials for Business
ECON205	Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
ECON215	Microeconomic Theory and Policy
FIN111	Introductory Principles of Finance
FIN222	Corporate Finance
FIN223	Investment Analysis
FIN226	Financial Markets and Institutions
FIN322	Advanced Corporate Finance
FIN323	Portfolio Analysis
LAW101	Introduction to Law
LAW315	Taxation Law
MARK101	Marketing Principles
MGNT201	Organisational Behaviour
STAT101	Introduction to Statistics
STAT201	Random Variables and Estimation
STAT251	Fundamentals of Biostatistics
STAT332	Generalised Linear Models

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