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A growing library of certificate courses for operations professionals and those who need to understand and engage with key operational processes.

Give-Up Specialist: Micro-Credential

Give-Up Specialist is a unique derivatives industry micro-credential. It enables industry newcomers to established industry professionals to develop skills and demonstrate competency in give-up processing. The knowledge gained through this micro-certification is essential to understanding how give ups are deployed in the futures industry and enhances your ability to apply concepts, processes and methodologies in real-world scenarios. Course content is based on input from leading futures industry experts, industry standards and best practices. 

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  • Give-Up Specialist: 5 Course Package

    Give-Up Specialist Badge
    Enroll your team in all five Give-Up Specialist courses and save. The series includes Anatomy of a Futures Broker, both Give-Up Essentials courses, Average Pricing, and Navigating Give-Up Agreements. Participants who complete all five earn the FIA Markets Academy micro-credential. It’s a cost-effective way to train a geographically distributed workforce.
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  • Give Up Essentials 2: Troubleshooting Real-World Scenarios

    Give Up Essentials 2
    Give-Up Essentials, the pre-requisite to this course, uses give-up trade flows to show how the process works when everything runs smoothly. This course examines problems that can arise during give-up trade processing. It identifies where failures occur and explores how problems can be resolved. CONTINUE READING

  • Give Up Essentials

    Give Up Essentials
    Whether you’re a customer or an employee at a broker, exchange, or CCP, understanding give ups and the complexities they add to the trade flow is essential. This online course illustrates how the introduction of give ups alters the trade flow for futures and options on futures. CONTINUE READING

  • Average Pricing

    Average Pricing
    This course provides a comprehensive overview of average pricing, including how and why futures and options trades are average priced. It explains how fund managers achieve fair and equitable distribution of trades among their customers by using average pricing or best fit methodologies. CONTINUE READING

  • Navigating Give Up Agreements

    Navigating Give Up Agreements
    This course provides an in-depth explanation of the different versions of the FIA International Uniform Give-Up Agreement, what it covers, clarifies the roles and obligations of each party, and illustrates the Give-Up Agreement workflow. Interactive scenarios offer practical ways to troubleshoot everyday issues. CONTINUE READING