Frontclear Academy
A continuous source of interactive knowledge on key topics in money markets for practitioners and regulators alike.
Contributing to economic growth and financial stability through inclusive and liquid money markets.
The Frontclear Academy offers courses on Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels.
The Frontclear Academy offers online training courses on topics relevant to money market development. The Academy compliments onsite training programmes conducted with local industry associations and provides continued access to training material and supporting documentation for staff of regulators and market participants.
The Academy offers courses on Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels. The curriculum is dynamic with courses being continually reviewed, evaluated and new ones added periodically. Training remains a core cornerstone to Frontclear’s impact strategy.
The Academy offers courses on Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels. The curriculum is dynamic with courses being continually reviewed, evaluated and new ones added periodically. Training remains a core cornerstone to Frontclear’s impact strategy.
The Fronclear Academy bundle includes:
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Tradeclear Tutorials
Course • 12 lessons3.7 average rating (3 reviews)Tradeclear tutorials are short, case-driven video-based explanations of the knowledge and practices needed to operationalize a repo and/or swap transaction under the Tradeclear Umbrella Guarantee Facility.
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Money Market Matters - The fundamentals of a financial system
Course • 9 lessons4.5 average rating (2 reviews)This course addresses all these points and gives an overview of the key challenges to bank-centric EMDC money markets. It goes further to share the opportunities and how possibly to logically phase a money market’s development.
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Repo Primer
Course • 19 lessons5.0 average rating (4 reviews)This course provides a practical step-by-step guide to understanding and operationalizing a repo transaction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Training remains a core cornerstone to Frontclear’s impact strategy.
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What is Frontclear?
Frontclear is a financial markets development company focused on catalyzing more stable and inclusive money markets in emerging and developing countries.
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Who is Frontclear?
Frontclear is an Amsterdam based development institution and is part of the Cardano Development Group, which manages (inter alia) The Currency Exchange Fund and Guarantco. Frontclear is funded by a number of European development finance institutions and governments, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO), Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA), Proparco, The Currency Exchange Fund (TCX), the UK’s Department of International Development (DFID) and the German Ministry of Development Cooperation (BMZ). Frontclear’s guarantees are counter-guaranteed by KfW, a AAA-rated German development Bank.
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What does Frontclear do?
Frontclear facilitates the development of money markets through issuance of Basel III compliant credit guarantees to cover a transacting institution’s (the obligor) counterparty credit risk. Through the Frontclear Technical Assistance Program (FTAP), the company aims to build knowledge and capacity and establish financial infrastructure conducive to interbank markets.
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Which market instruments does Frontclear guarantee?
Frontclear covers secured money market instruments including repo’s and cross currency repo’s, derivative instruments including forwards, FX swaps and cross currency swaps (deliverable and non-deliverable), and securities financing transactions. Frontclear supports both OTC and exchange traded markets and issues guarantees bilaterally or to central financial infrastructure providers such as central clearing counterparties and central security depositaries. A key value proposition of Frontclear is to facilitate the use of local securities as collateral in interbank trades.