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Training Course:

Trading Risks in Financial Institutions Workshop

School/Trainer:

FitchTraining
London, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Participants will be equipped to:
Identify how and where the trading, investing and hedging activities of a financial institution impact its financial statements
Understand how market risks are quantified, measured and monitored
Understand the various methods used to monitor and manage market risks and the potential for underestimating losses
Distinguish between methods of quantifying and monitoring credit risks associated with derivative products from those used for measuring market risks
Ask pertinent questions to assess management credibility and evaluate the financial institution’s risk appetite and controls.

Content
TRADING, INVESTMENT & HEDGING ACTIVITIES: BUSINESS DYNAMICS
Transaction flows - understanding securities and derivatives trading
Impact on financial statements
Assessing the investment account: hidden value or black hole?
MEASURING & MONITORING MARKET EXPOSURES
Define and quantify market risk
Methodologies for quantifying market risk - understanding factors affecting VaR calculations
Reporting standards - practical implementation issues regarding systems and procedures for aggregating exposures
Best practice - holding periods, confidence levels and disclosure
Regulatory considerations - understanding the regulators requirements for approving a models based approach - a UK perspective
Assessing market risk management - questions to ask
MEASURING & MONITORING CREDIT EXPOSURES
Define and quantify credit risks embedded in derivatives and securities trading
Methodologies for quantifying credit risk - understanding factors affecting potential future exposure (PFE) calculations
Reporting standards - practical implementation issues regarding systems and procedures for aggregating exposures
Best practice - the need for global systems (limits and outstandings), models that accommodate correlated variables, etc.
Assessing credit risk management of trading activities - questions to ask
EVALUATING THE CREDIT IMPLICATIONS OF A FIRM’S TRADING RISK
Relating market risks to the success of the bank’s business model - uncovering key sensitivities to interest rate and/or FX positions
Reliance on, and volatility of, trading profits
Uncovering vulnerable activities - emerging markets, high yield, private equity
Measuring VaR levels - benchmarking performance against peers
Assessing appropriateness of risk appetite and levels of disclosure
...''

Please go to the school's official website for training price and schedule:
http://www.fitchtraining.com/

Phone:+ 44 (0) 20 7201 2770

School Address:

28 Headfort Place, London, SW1X 7DH, United Kingdom.


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