Risk Management 3: Methods and Applied Risk Control

Role of risk management within financial institutions
  • Roles of a risk manager
  • Interaction with other divisions
  • Statutory independence from Front Office
  • Close monitoring of Front Office
  • Credit, market and operational risk management
  • Practical workshop
  • Optimal risk-management processes
  • Comparison of the various risk management structures chosen by various banks
Analysis of risk monitoring methods
  • Revision of the most appropriate VaR methods ; list by business-lines
  • Revision on procedures of calibration and monitoring of limits and stop-losses (instruction, granting, revision, validation)
  • Procedure if operational limits are broken
  • Granularity of risk monitoring and consolidation
  • Continuous integration of new products
  • Practical workshop
  • Calibration of analytical, historical and Monte Carlo VaR
Necessary conditions for risk management implementation
  • Reconcile front/back data
  • Practical workshop
  • Daily reconciliation, cash flow, validation and automatisation
  • Daily validation of independent market data entry
  • Practical workshop
  • Checking the coherence of market data
  • Maintain historical database of market prices
  • Use appropriate and integrated risk tools
Deployment and monitoring of risk process
  • Validation of pricers (sensitivity/simulation)
  • Definition of P&L calculation methods
  • Practical workshop
  • Calculation of P&L in Mark-to-Market and accrued
  • Impact in terms of risk and VaR of FX positions
  • Calibration and setting-up of refactions and of Day-One PNL.
  • Production and control of VaR, setting-up “add-on”
  • Backtesting of VaR regulatory aspects
  • Process to implement for credit risk and operational risks: regulatory models, standard and advanced IRB
  • Using stress scenarios for operational management
  • Practical workshop
  • Reconstitution of P&L by sensitivities and effects
  • Translating the bank’s risk appetite in terms of operational limits
Validating the internal model
  • Integration in the structure and business model
  • Transversal process and holding of scientific committees
  • Taking into account and implementing Basel II last covenants
  • Qualitative and quantitative required environment: best practice.
  • Practical workshop
  • Detailed checking tool by validation criteria
  • Multiple Choice Questionnaires

  • Learn how to define a risk measuring and monitoring methodology
  • Analyse reporting for corrective actions at front-office level
  • Determine and calibrate risk levels according to managing positions
  • Understand all aspects of limits enforcement procedures
  • Authorise new products within a secure framework
  • Understand the requirements and the issues when validating an internal model
  • Anticipate demands and challenges when validating an internal model
  • Focus on the daily procedures of a risk management department and on the operational processes (results, risks, limits, overrun procedures, back-testing of VaR, reporting, management of resources)
  • Conforming to Basel II and its developments (Basel III)
  • Analysis of an audit report for the risk division and follow-up of recommendations
  • Suggestions are given to increase the efficiency of your risk management mode
  • Risk managers
  • Data management
  • Internal controls / Audit / Compliance
  • Middle office / Back office / Accounting
  • Conformity.
  • Traders, fund managers
  • IT
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