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Bank and country risk, understanding it and assessing it, quantitatively and qualitatively, has attained an importance for bankers, regulators and investors that has increased dramatically over the years. Global turmoil and the collapse of individual country's economies emphasises the need to understand risk assessment.
This course is divided into 4 modules covering:
Bank Qualititative Risk Analysis : analysing qualitative and subjective aspects such as management, banking regulation and supervision, credit limits, methodologies of the ratings agencies, understanding why banks fail.
Bank Financial Risk Analysis : analysing bank financial statements, financial ratio analysis peer group comparisons, inter country comparisons, identifying "creative accounting" practises, investment banking analysis, using PC based analytical tools.
Coutry Risk Analysis : introduction to country risk; factual background; factors in country risk analysis; definitions and discussion of transaction, economic, political, social, commercial, and financial risk.
Country Risk Modelling : developing short and medium term risk models; alternative models, discussions of existing models, exercises, building your own model, identifying and managing early warning signals.
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