Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets

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• 1 review

  6 weeks, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  In this course, part of the Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’, we will understand the underlying theories as well as the structure and functioning of equity stock markets, how to identify, assess and manage the heightened level of risks in equity stock markets and the role of derivative instruments in hedging those risks.
  
  Equity stock markets are perhaps the most vibrant and ‘visible’ of all financial markets around the world by virtue of the broad spectrum of participants and the volume and value of transactions traded in these markets. Given that dominant presence, assessing and managing risks in equity stock markets have also become increasingly sophisticated over the years, thanks to several theories such as portfolio theory, CAPM, sharp ratio, etc. that have evolved and matured over the years. This course will address in great detail those theories and how risks are managed/mitigated in equity stock markets around the world.
  
  This course will also address the structure and functioning of private equity markets and also provide an overview of a related topic, venture capital financing.
  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’. 

• 0 reviews

  1 week, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  In order to earn this Professional Certificate and stand out in your field, you need to take the ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets Professional Certificate Exam’ from IIMBx.
  
  The Exam will be timed for three hours and will comprise questions based on topics covered in all the five courses. To earn your Professional Certificate, you must receive a minimum score as per the course’s grading policy for the Exam.
  
  Prerequisite for this Exam:
  
  To qualify for this this Exam, participants should have earned a Verified Certificate in all five courses that comprise this Professional Certificate program “Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets”:

  • Course 1: Banking & Financial Intermediation: Concepts, Risks, Capital and Regulation
  • Course 2: Debt & Money Market: Concepts, Instruments, Risks and Derivatives 
  • Course 3: Equity Stock Market: Concepts, Instruments, Risks and Derivatives
  • Course 4: Foreign Exchange Market: Concepts, Instruments, Risks and Derivatives
  • Course 5: Special Topics in Risk Management of Banking and Financial Markets

  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’.

• 13 reviews

  7 weeks, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  This course, part of the Professional Certificate Program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’, will help you understand the theories and the macroeconomic context governing banking and financial intermediation as well as measures to manage credit risk, off-balance sheet risk, operational risk, liquidity risk and solvency risk, including Basel guidelines on capital adequacy.
  
  Banks and other financial intermediaries make up a large part of the ‘ecosystem’ that channelizes money from those who have it (i.e. savers/investors) to those who need it (i.e. borrowers). Central Banks in most countries also use that ecosystem to effectively manage money supply (liquidity) and to safeguard the stability of the financial system.
  
  This course will look at the products and services offered by banks and financial intermediaries and the significant complexities and risks they encounter in conducting their business in a globally interconnected world.
  
  It will address in detail the embedded risks in banking and financial intermediation such as credit risk, off-balance sheet risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, solvency risk, etc., and how these risks are identified, measured and managed, using several risk mitigation techniques and regulatory mechanisms.
  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’. 

• 3 reviews

  5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  In this course, part of the Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’, we will examine the structure and functioning of money markets (short-term financial markets) as well as debt markets, the manifestation and impact of interest rate risks in those markets and how are they managed/mitigated.
  
  The first part of this course will examine in detail money markets (short-term financial markets) such as call money markets, T-bills markets, repo markets, etc. that make up the ecosystem to effectively manage money supply (liquidity) and ensure stability of the financial system in the short-term.
  
  The second part of this course will look at debt markets, the underlying theories such as time value of money, bond pricing and bond valuation, as well as the structure and functioning of debt markets including corporate bond market, government securities (T- bond) market and mortgages market.
  
  Interest rate and inflation together are the most significant macro-economic variables that impact global financial markets, particularly debt markets, even more so given the free flow of capital across countries and the consequent emergence of globally interconnected financial systems. As a result, managing interest rate risks and its consequent impact on the riskiness and volatility of instruments traded in the money and debt markets have become exponentially more complex.
  
  This course will address the tools and techniques to manage the heightened level of interest rate risks. It will also look at derivative products such as futures, swaps and options and their role in not only helping institutions to hedge against those risks but also to speculate and make additional profits where possible. 
  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’. 

• 5 reviews

  5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  In this course, part of the Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’, we will learn the theory and structure of foreign exchange markets, the instruments that are traded and the trading and settlement mechanisms. We will also learn how to identify, assess and manage foreign exchange risk as well as the role of derivative instruments in hedging these risks.
  
  Thanks to the economic liberalization in several countries over the last few decades, the world has witnessed an exponential increase in the free flow of capital across countries, even more so in emerging economies. This has resulted in a globally interconnected ecosystem of banks and financial markets engaged in foreign exchange transactions that are continuously growing in volume, sophistication and complexity. That, in turn, has attracted a plethora of participants whose explicit intention is to either profit from or hedge against the heightened level of risks in the foreign exchange markets.  
  
  This course will unravel those complexities and help you gain a comprehensive understanding of foreign exchange markets: the underlying theories, the instruments traded, the associated risks such as transaction exposure, operating exposure, translation exposure, etc. and how those risks are addressed/redressed using several techniques including using derivative instruments such as currency options, currency futures and currency swaps.  
  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’. 

• 1 review

  5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week, 3-4 hours a week

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  In this advanced course, part of the Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’, we will look at structured financial products such as Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS), Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) and their role in transferring/diversifying the risks to several entities in the financial markets.
  
  We will also examine the unintended consequences and outcome of those risk transfer instruments that accentuated the systemic risk and eventually lead to the 2008 global financial meltdown.
  
  In addition, we will look at special topics in risk management such as Value at Risk (VaR) and stress testing, as well as recent trends in regulation including the Basel-III guidelines on capital adequacy that have been implemented in several countries to manage risk in a proactive and consistent manner.
  
  More importantly, we will examine how far have those regulatory measures and guidelines been able to achieve the well-intentioned goal of safeguarding the stability of financial systems across countries and whether they would, in the future, be able to anticipate and avert cascading adverse outcomes as witnessed in the 2008 global financial crisis.  
  
  This course is part of IIMBx's Professional Certificate program ‘Risk Management in Banking and Financial Markets’. 

Taught by

PC Narayan

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