B.Com. (Banking and Insurance) Debt Market Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the Fourth Year BBI Honours syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The fourth year is new in 2026-27, and the University runs it as two separate courses: Honours, and Honours with Research.
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Syllabus for Debt Market
Module I: Introduction to Indian Debt Market
- A) Indian Debt Markets: A Profile of Products and Participants, Market Segments, Participants in the Debt Markets, Secondary Market for Debt Instruments B) Debt Instruments: Instrument Features, Modifying the coupon of the bond, Modifying the term to maturity of a bond, Modifying the principal repayment of a bond, Asset backed securities
Module II: Central Government Securities and State Government Bonds
- A) Central Government Securities Bonds-Introduction, Developments Expected, G-Secs:
- Trends in Volumes, Tenor and ields, Primary Issuance Process, Participants in Government Bond Markets, Constituent of SGL Accounts, Primary Dealers, Satellite Dealers, Secondary Markets for Government Bonds, Settlement of Trades in G-Secs, Clearing Corporation, Negotiated Dealing System, Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF).
- State Government Bonds B) Central Government Securities: Treasury Bill Issuance Process, Cut-Off Yields, Investors in T-Bills, Secondary Market Activity in T-bills.
Module III: Corporate Bond Market
- A) Corporate Bonds- Market Segments, Issue Process, Issue Management and Book Building, Terms of a debenture issue and Credit Rating.
- B) Bond Market Indices and Benchmarks I-Bex : Sovereign Bond Index, NSE –MIBOR
Module IV: Valuation of Bonds
- A) Valuation of Bonds - Bond Valuation: First principles, Time path of a bond, Valuing a bond at any point on the time scale, Accrued Interest, Yield, Weighted Yield, YTM of a Portfolio, Realised Yield, Yield–Price relationships of bonds B) Yield Curve and Term Structure of Interest Rate - Yield Curve: The Simple Approach, Bootstrapping, Alternate Methodologies to Estimate the Yield Curve, Theories of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Reference Books
- Bhardwaj, Gautam, (2008), The Future of India’s Debt Market, Tata McGraw Hill.
- Suryanarayan, (2002), Debt Market, ICFAI Publication Press.
- Fabozzi, Frank, (2004), Fixed Income Analysis Workbook, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons
- Shah, Ajay, Thomas, Sushan and Gorham, Michael, (2008), Indian Financial Markets, Elsevier, USA
- FIMMDA-NSE Debt Market (Basic) Module, Workbook from NSE.
- Dun and Bradstreet, (2008), Fixed Income Securities, Tata McGraw Hill.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Com. (Banking & Insurance) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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