The fundamentals of financial risk management

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MOOC: The fundamentals of financial risk management

This course, organized in six sessions, was carried out in 2017 by two professionals from the sector, Justin McCarthy and Oscar McCarthy.

In this MOOC, the specialists share their expertise with us on financial risk management, history, current and future challenges.

 

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  • I. Risk in Industry: An overview of risk and risk management, with a more detailed look at its place in the banking industry
    6
    • Part 1: What is risk and how does risk management help firms manage financial risks?
    • Test 1
      2 questions
    • Part 2: The relationship between risk and reward – why better rewards can mean more risk
    • Test 2
      2 questions
    • Part 3: The unique place of risk in the financial services industry, especially for banks and similar firms
    • Test 3
      2 questions
  • II. Market Risk: Risk and the markets - how market participants can gain and lose from the markets and how this can be managed
    6
    • Part 1: What is market risk and how does affect financial market participants?
    • Test 4
      1 question
    • Part 2: What is Value at Risk (VAR), recently highlighted flaws and how to address these?
    • Test 5
      2 questions
    • Part 3: Interest Rate Risk, why are interest rates so low and what does this mean?
    • Test 6
      2 questions
  • III. Credit Risk: How economies are grown through credit, the risks of excessive credit growth and how credit risk can be managed?
    6
    • Part 1: What is credit risk – loans, those who make them and those who do and don’t repay them
    • Test 7
      2 questions
    • Part 2: Sub-prime loans – how credit risk became systemic risk and helped cause a crisis
    • Test 8
      2 questions
    • Part 3: Ratings agencies – how they help with credit risk for the largest firms and even countries
    • Test 9
      2 questions
  • IV. Liquidity risk: How the recent crisis brought this risk into the mainstream of risk management
    6
    • Part 1: Liquidity risk – the basics of this risk and recent changes in how it is measured and managed
    • Test 10
      2 questions
    • Part 2: Market liquidity and funding liquidity – how these differ and how they can be managed
    • Test 11
      2 questions
    • Part 3: The 2007 to 2008 crisis – what happens to markets when they seize up?
    • Test 12
      2 questions
  • VI. Strategic Risk: How risk management can be part of your strategic planning for any firm?
    7
    • Part 1: Business models and strategic risk – taking risk management out of the silos
    • Test 16
      2 questions
    • Part 2: Taking your SWOT and PESTEL outputs and looking at risk strategically
    • Test 17
      2 questions
    • Part 3: The Business Model Canvas… looking at a firm strategically
    • Test 18
      2 questions
    • Final Test
      12 questions

Instructors

Justin McCarthy MOOC les fondamentaux min

Justin McCarthy

Chairman of The Board of Directors
at the PRMIA Institute

Oscar McCarthy MOOC les fondamentaux min

Oscar McCarthy

Vice-Chairman PRMIA Institute
 

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