Corporate Training
Leveraging our experience in Exam based trainings for Risk management and Investment Banking, we look forward to tie up with corporate to meet their training requirements in the related area of Finance.
Faculty: We have drawn together 50+ Faculty members who are professionals working with leading banks and Financial Institutions with educational background of IIT/IIMs. Their background, proven teaching ability and practical approach provides an unparallel training approach which is an amalgamation of high academic standards and hands on experience.
Course design: The training programmes are designed keeping in mind the current industry requirements. The course content covers all the important topics in detail with clear illustrations. The course design incorporates the feedback of our Industry experts, working with leading Banks and Financial Institutions.
Quality materials: The training material is fairly comprehensive and designed by our Faculty members.
Below are listed some of the trainings that we provide trainings for:
Finance Fundamentals
- Understand how to interpret accounting and financial statements
- Learn through hands-on exercises what the key financial ratios indicate about your business
- Build knowledge on funding through debt and equity- how the structure affects ROI, ROE
- Learn about working capital products
- Understand the dynamics of the instruments available in the stock and debt markets
- Gain an insight into the foreign exchange markets and derivatives products
Asset liability management
- Understand the concept and need for Asset Liability Management
- Learn about interest risk management and liquidity risk management - key elements of ALM
- Get an overview of key responsibilities of ALCO and ALM reporting
- Understand various elements & functionality of an ALM system
- Learn the application of various concepts with the help of a live case study
Basel II
- An introduction to risk management in Banks: (Credit risk, Market risk, Operational risk, Regulatory capital requirement, Economic capital requirement and Credit VaR)
- Understanding Basel II guidelines vis a vis Basel I
- Basel II: Pillar I, Pillar II, Pillar III
- Implications of Basel II guidelines for Indian Banks
Advanced Excel Workshop
- Advanced range names, including formulas and naming conventions
- Advanced conditional formatting, including formula-driven formatting
- Aggregation functions
- Financial functions: IRR, NPV, PV, FV, PMT
- Goal seek and Solver
- Pivot Tables
- Scenarios
- Data tables
- Lookup functions: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH
- Advanced data validation techniques and forms controls
- Introduction to macros and user-defined functions
Company Valuation & Modeling
- Ratio Analysis
- Value Creation
- Discounted Cashflow Valuation
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) & the Discount Rate
- Project Financing and Real Options
- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
- Strategic Asset Valuation
- Economic Value Added
- Cashflow Return on Investment (CFROI)
- Capital Structure Issues in Valuation
- Modeling Issues in Valuation
Quantitative Analysis
- Probability, Random variables, Probability distributions (discrete and continuous; Marginal and Joint): Understanding their significance and application in risk measurement and management
- Skewness, and Kurtosis
- Correlation and Regression
- Statistics including sampling theory and hypothesis testing.
- Statistical methods for estimating and forecasting volatility and correlation (EWMA & GARCH)
Credit Risk & Credit derivatives
- Internal and External Ratings
- Individual borrower Credit Risk (PD, LGD and EAD)
- Portfolio Credit Risk (portfolio EL, UL, RC, Credit VaR and EC)
- Counterparty risk, Sovereign risk
- Credit Risk Models (Structural models: Moody's KMV, Merton model Credit Metrics & Intensity models, Credit Scoring Models)
- CDS, CLN, TRS and Credit Spread options
- Basket CDS, Nth-to-default swaps and CDO
- Securitization & Mortgage back Securities
- Pricing : RAROC
Market Risk & Derivatives
- Bonds Valuation ( including Yield Curve Analysis)
- Foreign Exchange Risk & Interest rate Risk
- Futures and Forwards
- Option (Stratigies, Pricing Greeks & Exotics)
- Hedging Linear & Non Linear risks
- Swaps
- Complex Derivatives
Value at Risk
- Introduction to VaR
- VaR Methods
- Calculation of VaR for basic assets
- VaR Mapping
- Stress testing
- Extreme value theory (EVT)
Monte Carlo Simulation methods for derivatives
- Why and when using Monte Carlo
- Pitfalls in Monte Carlo methods
- Generation of random numbers
- Application (Pricing of options, CDO and Nth to default swaps, Interest rate derivatives)
- Application to assessing bond risk
- Simulation of price paths (portfolio risk and Choleski decomposition)
Corporate Credit Analysis
- Stages of the industry/product life cycle
- Sensitivity and scenario analyses
- Ratios used for credit analysis.
- Company's optimal capital structure.
- Define the five forces in the Porter model.
- Recognize the elements of PEST analysis.
- Describe SWOT analysis.
- Describe the role of rating agencies in credit analysis.
- Identify the process that rating agencies use to rate companies.
- Recognize the components of the Z-score, RiskCalc TM, and KMV models.
Intensive Corporate Credit
- Use models to access the creditworthiness of a borrower
- Evaluate the performance of a company based on a qualitative approach, backed by appropriate quantitative analysis (ratios and cash-flow tools) to support a lending decision
- Use appropriate market indicators, where available (e.g. ratings, equity indicators, bond and CDS spreads) to understand refinancing risk and the market view on a credit
- Anticipate a company's future performance and credit outlook using a cash-flow approach to ascertain its ability to service/refinance its debt as it comes due
- Sensitise forecasts for key variables and interpret the results and their effect on creditworthiness
- Critique bond and loan structures to assess both the ability to meet the commercial needs of the borrower and protect the lender's interests.
Risk Management in Banks & the Capital Implications
- Identify and quantify credit, market, liquidity, and operational risks
- Understand the systems and procedures needed by a bank to track, monitor and manage these risks
- Relate the risks to the capital of a bank
- Understand the importance of legal, reputational, and regulatory risks.
