Risk Management Training

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Available Courses:

Advanced Risk Management
Asset & Liability Management
Capital Modelling and Capital Management
Counterparty Risk of OTC Derivatives
Credit Risk
Effective Market Risk Management
Essentials of Gas Trading and Risk
Fundamentals Of Risk Management
Interest Rate Models
Liquidity Risk
Mastering Model Risk and Stress Testing
Operational Risk
Risk Management in Power Markets
School Of Risk Management
School of Treasury Products and Risk Management
Treasury Risk Management
Value-at-Risk

The credit crisis taught us all a lesson in risk management and this groundbreaking course provides a detailed set of tools and techniques for managing and controlling credit risk, market risk and derivatives risk.

Master the latest techniques to control and manage credit risk, market risk and operational risk.

Attend this highly intensive course to gain an in-depth practical insight into:

Cutting-edge market risk methodologies
The tools and techniques needed to measure market risk effectively
Successful stress and scenario testing
Effective liquidity risk management
Practical credit risk modelling and management
How credit derivatives can be used to manage credit risk
The role of capital and the relationship to other risks
The impact of Basel II – the latest developments in regulation and capital requirements in light of the credit crisis
The lessons learned from the credit crisis

Asset & Liability Management - More Details

Getting the right balance is always the challenge when banks and financial institutions looks at the issue of ALM. Many courses on the topic tend to be dry and text book driven, but this is the only Asset & Liability Management course that utilises a live simulation throughout the entire course. This unique approach rapidly builds the knowledge and skills in the ALM arena.

By attending this highly intensive practical programme, you will:

Learn how to assess the strengths and weaknesses in your current Asset and Liability Management process
Benefit from practical hands-on training in the very latest best practice risk analysis techniques and strategies
Dramatically enhance your practical understanding of strategic balance sheet management issues such as the impact of Basel II and IAS requirements on ALM decision making
Appreciate the conflicts that can arise at the ALCO level in the application of both earnings and valuation methodologies to bank balance sheet management
Gain a comprehensive understanding of symmetric and asymmetric hedging techniques and develop effective balance sheet hedging strategies banking and credit management

Capital Modelling and Capital Management - More Details
Understand in detail how regulatory and economic capital interact in the post credit crunch world
This new and intensive two-day course offers the unique opportunity to: Understand how both economic and regulatory capital are defined for the major risk areas Evaluate the latest techniques for risk and capital estimation Understand the evolution of the Basel rules and how they are implemented Look at the new developments and requirements for Basel III Understand the role of Liquidity Risk and its new found importance post ‘Credit Crunch' Look in detail how capital can be optimised for regulatory, tax and accounting reasons Review practical features of capital management and techniques for optimisation

Counterparty Risk of OTC Derivatives - More Details

The credit crisis created a climate of fear around counterparties in OTC derivative markets. This course will help you develop the skills to understand the risks of dealing with OTC derivatives.

Attend this highly practical two-day programme and you will learn:

Best practice techniques for pricing and hedging counterparty risk, illustrated with real world case studies and models
Bilateral and multilateral payment and closeout netting techniques
How to structure derivative transactions that actually reduce your exposure to counterparty risk
State-of-the-art approaches for collateralisation – in theory and in practice
Tools for dealing with “wrong way” counterparty risk
The latest strategies and techniques for reducing credit exposure
How to deal with the problems created by the credit risk of derivatives

….and many other critical topics.

Credit Risk - More Details

Revised to take into consideration the impact of the global credit crisis, this state-of-the-art credit risk course is essential for every risk management professional.

Attend this three-day course and you will gain a comprehensive understanding of:

The techniques to effectively manage credit risk in portfolios, loans and instruments
The most commonly used models for assessing the credit risk exposure of a single couterparty or of a multiple portfolio
An in-depth analysis of portfolio performance and portfolio optimisation
Securitisation techniques, CDO products and credit derivative instruments and how they are used to mitigate credit exposure and minimise regulatory capital
The new regulatory requirements for credit risk and the techniques to successfully implement Basel II
Real-life case studies and hands-on exercises for practical credit risk assessment

Effective Market Risk Management - More Details
Managing risk effectively, going beyond the basics of measurement and policy
Attend this intensive two-day training course and benefit from: A critical look at risk and how it can be managed and controlled Understanding current best practice and why it is best practice in risk management A critical look at Value-At-Risk: Why do regulators like it, where does it fail and what can be done about it? Alternatives to VaR, including ‘Stress and Scenarios’ Incorporating and managing non-linear risks Risk measurement and management for hedge fund and traditional fund managers Regulatory impact and requirements for risk management and capital Incorporating new products and risks

Essentials of Gas Trading and Risk - More Details
Practitioners from all over the world make this course a sell out course everytime it runs. Providing practical trading strategies combined with detailed risk analysis, this is the ultimate Gas Trading course.
This intensive three-day programme will enable you to master: European gas market & infrastructure fundamentals Mechanisms of transit, transportation & UGS Key aspects of gas trading & gas hubs in European context Different parties and their roles The tension between security of supply and trading The new role of LNG imports in Europe Trading risks and risk management in the European gas markets The use & effectiveness of hedging

Fundamentals Of Risk Management - More Details

Everyone in the finance world needs a firm understanding of risk - especially in light of the credit crisis. Rather than adopting the traditional approach to risk training that tends to be rather academic, the IFF Fundamentals of Risk Management course is developed with the needs of practitioners in mind. The course covers the spectrum of issues in risk management and has been recently updated to reflect the impact of the credit crunch.

Course objectives:

Analysing specific risk management frameworks and different types of risk
Building awareness of the specific risks such as credit, market and operational
Exploring the main risk measurement and management tools
Understanding how risk standards are developed and identifying key criteria for implementing effective risk controls, procedures and regulatory processes

Interest Rate Models - More Details
Learn how to develop, calibrate and validate models in order to eliminate model risk and guarantee robustness. More importantly, learn the practicalities of pricing, hedging and position taking, using interest rate models, as well as how to avoid potential problems
This training course covers the mathematical concepts underlying a broad spectrum of interest rate models, including: Modelling in the bond markets and the money markets Hull and White, BDT and many other models Market models: Choosing volatilities and correlations Implementation using Monte Carlo and Lattice Modelling credit risk

Liquidity Risk - More Details

Liquidity risk is fundamental to the management of every financial operation. This groundbreaking course will teach you the best proactive methods for measuring and managing liquidity risk in today's turbulent market environment.

Attend this comprehensive 2-day course and get to grips with:

The effects of liquidity risk on securities pricing and funding
The challenges of building a successful framework for liquidity risk management
The regulatory requirements for liquidity
Effective liquidity stress testing and contingency planning
The techniques for modelling liquidity risk within a treasury framework
The impact of liquidity in the debacle of LTCM

Mastering Model Risk and Stress Testing - More Details

With regulators showing increasing concerns around banks' risk management models, this course provides best practice approaches to ensure that your models are robust and able to deal with the current volatile markets.

Over two intensive days you will:

Understand why market risk models have performed so badly recently – and how to improve them
See what a derivatives pricing model does and doesn’t tell you and how to control the risks around using one
Update yourself on regulatory requirements for market, credit and operational risk stress testing
Learn how to manage valuation risk effectively
Work through detailed case studies on the use of stress testing to reveal portfolio sensitivities that are concealed by VAR
Understand what this means for economic capital calculations

Operational Risk - More Details

Gain a unique practical insight into mitigating, reducing and avoiding enterprise-wide operational risk in financial institutions.

In just two days you will learn:

Identify and define the boundaries of operational risk
Understand specific risks in financial institutions and their impact on operational efficiency
Examine some of the models
Identify solutions and tackle line management, internal control and the effect of human error
Implement IT solutions to mitigate operational risk

Risk Management in Power Markets - More Details

A highly practical approach to identifying and managing risk exposure in liberalising electricity markets

During two intensive days you will:

Use topical situations to illustrate the theories of risk management in power trading - a highly practical approach
Learn from an international power expert who can translate jargon into clear and relevant information
Learn how to identify risks and gain a practical approach to mitigating them using current real-life examples
Get to grips with a number of pricing and risk modelling techniques which will prove invaluable to you in the future

School Of Risk Management - More Details
In the current climate there's no subject with more impact than that of risk. The IFF School of Risk Management course sets new benchmarks for risk management education. Taught by a globally recognised team of experts and structured to focus on all the major risk types, this is the only course risk professionals will ever need.
Five reasons why you must attend this course: You will get to grips with the practicalities of cutting-edge risk management methodologies The residential structure allows the inclusion of highly focused case-studies with a deep emphasis on practical applications It is the only programme of its kind, providing a comprehensive coverage of the tools, techniques and strategies used within market, credit and operational risk Taught by the world’s leading risk management experts, it will provide you with the chance to learn from some of the best minds in the business It will provide you with the perfect synergy between theory and real-world application, ensuring you make the transition from theory to practice, with outstanding success

School of Treasury Products and Risk Management - More Details
A masterclass in understanding treasury markets and products. Designed with practitioners in mind, the course looks at the spectrum of treasury products and will teach you how to utilise them in a trading, hedging and risk management context.
Attend this highly practical residential course and you will: Learn how treasuries function in banks and corporations Gain an insight into managing currency and interest rate risk Discover how to create successful treasury policies Understand how to identify risks and how to hedge them Explore the relationship between trading and hedging Develop a knowledge of the currency risk management strategies of major corporations and how to profit from them Gather more information about attitudes to risk and its management

Treasury Risk Management - More Details

Equip yourself with the skills and knowledge to manage risk, allocate funds effectively and increase shareholder value.

Attend this comprehensive training programme and you will:

Learn how to identify treasury exposures
Calculate and quantify interest rate and currency risk
Understand how successful banks manage treasury risks
Know how to implement treasury risk management policies which ensure the treasury function complies with the board’s strategy
Understand the current regulatory regime and the implications for banks
Understand the links between equity, commodity, interest rate and currency derivative hedging techniques
Appreciate the differences between hedging in the forward, futures swaps and options markets

Value-at-Risk - More Details
Newly revised and updated in light of the global credit crisis, the course provides up-to-date covering of the latest strategies and techniques for VaR analysis.
This cutting-edge training programme will provide you invaluable practical information on: VaR risk capital & regulatory developments Key issues in risk governance, risk management and risk audits Historical simulation methodologies and issues VaRCoVaR methods and issues, expected tail-loss (conditional VaR) Monte Carlo simulation analytics and issues Importance of multi-factor term-structure models Auditing a risk management hedging system of a derivatives book Worked examples of actual implementation