Introduction to Risk Management

Mapping of risks in financial institutions
  • Notion of risk and risk factors
  • The different business lines and their associated risks
  • Standard and new risks
Risk management key stake-holders
  • Role and responsibility of internal functions
  • External stake-holders: authorities (European, US and domestic regulators)
Organisation and implementation of risk management
  • Internal devices and other operational aspects
  • Basel reforms: capital requirements
  • Relationship between economic and regulatory capital
Introduction to market risk
  • Notion of Mark to Market and risk of market transactions
  • Indicators of market risk
  • Nominal
  • Sensitivity to various risk factors
  • Value at Risk (VaR) : introduction to the 3 VaR methods (historical, analytical and Monte Carlo), CVaR
  • Stress scenarios
  • Monitoring market risk
  • Practical workshop
  • Comparative analysis of the risk indicators of various market positions
  • Regulatory aspects: Market risk under Basel
Introduction to credit risk
  • Notion of credit risk
  • Definition of default / credit event, recovery rate
  • Rating, credit spread and associated risks
  • Monitoring and hedging credit risk
  • Counterparty risk on market transactions: classification and introduction to counterparty risk valuation methods
  • Practical workshop
  • Analysis of the credit risk of various deals
  • Typical counterparty risk profiles
Introduction to liquidity risk
  • Analysis and measure of liquidity risk
  • Regulatory aspects: liquidity ratios
Basel reform (Basel II and developments of Basel III)
  • Regulatory approach: standard and internal (IRB)
  • Basel indicators (EAD, PD, LGD)
  • Solvency ratio: developments
Introduction to operational risk
  • Types of operational risks
  • Identification and mapping
  • Monitoring and managing operational risks
  • Regulatory framework
Conclusion
  • Development of risk culture
  • The challenges of global risk management

  • Have a global vision of risk management within a financial institution
  • Understand the role and the responsibilities of the internal and external functions involved in risk management
  • Familiarise with the cartography of risk of different activities within a financial institution
  • Understand the key concepts of major risk categories (market, credit, operational and liquidity risks)
  • Be introduced to several types of risk indicators, their applications and limits
  • Understand all aspects of risk management and their impact on equity
  • Understand major challenges of an internal robust risk management (measurement, monitoring and control)
  • Getting information of evolutions in the regulatory environment
  • Get a global approach of all aspects of risk management: key-players and organisation, cartography and risk analysis, implementation of the best practices
  • The definitions are systematically replaced in their regulatory and economic context preceding the seminar

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