Credit Risk Management for Financial Instruments

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Cost for BPP PD Members: £440.00 + VAT : 6 CPD Hours
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Course Level

Intermediate

Delegates

This course will be of benefit to dealers, credit officers, auditors and support staff with a good basic knowledge of the financial markets to develop their understanding of credit risk management.

Course content

This one-day course aims to ensure recognition of where credit risk is generated in financial instruments; analyse the levels of credit risk generated given the counterparties to which an institution is exposed; and analyse sensitivity of portfolios to changes in market conditions. In order to build simple Excel models throughout the course, a basic knowledge of Excel is required.

Learning outcomes include obtaining a greater understanding of:

  • The Concept of Credit Risk
    • Definitions of default, failure to pay and other events
    • Credit risk as default probability,
    • Recovery rates and exposures when analysing credit risk
    • Setting credit limits
    • Loss Given Default (LGD), Expected Loss (EL), Exposure at Default (EAD), and Default Correlations
  • Credit Exposure and Portfolios of Trades
    • Portfolio credit risk
    • Effect of netting on credit risk
    • Effect of collateral on credit risk
    • Calculation of collateral
  • Techniques Used to Analyse Credit Risk
    • VaR techniques to analyse credit risk
    • Basic VaR Parametric and Non-Parametric techniques
    • Monte Carlo simulation
    • Basic Monte Carlo calculation

Course Dates

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London 01 Mar 2020 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM  Spaces Book Now
London 16 Jul 2020 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM  Spaces Book Now
London 04 Nov 2020 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM  Spaces Book Now

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