Exposure to changes in interest rate, currency, equity and commodity markets is a fact of life but effectively measuring and managing those risks can mean the difference between profitability and loss. Selecting the product and risk hedging strategy that makes sense for a particular company and situation requires care and a solid understanding of the financial instrument tools and applications available in the market.

Expert-facilitated program is uniquely designed to help treasury professionals build competency-based skills for identifying, measuring and managing financial risk exposure.

The format combines presentations, case studies and application-focused checklists to cover risk analysis from assessment to evaluation, and will bridge the gap between theories and practice with:

• an initial overview of fundamental concepts and tools used to manage exposure to changes in interest rate, currency, equity and commodity markets
• discussions on ways to measure the risk-return tradeoff of popular financial instruments and related applications with respect to economic, operational and structural attributes
• a focus on practical implementation issues such as data selection, valuation and hedge effectiveness testing

Participants will learn to:

• identify effective financial instruments used for managing risk from interest rate, currency, equity and commodity changes
• recognize effective risk management processes and procedures for using financial instruments
• measure the risk-return tradeoff of popular financial instruments and related
• applications with respect to economic, operational and structural attributes
• deal with practical implementation issues such as data selection, valuation
• hedge effectiveness testing

• Managers.
• Financial Consultants
• Financial Advisors.
• Securities Specialists.
• Accountants.
• Currency Derivatives Specialists.
• Management Accountants.
• Venture Capitalists.
• Corporate Executives.

Risk: A Working Hypothesis

• Defining Risk – Generally.
• Financial Risk: A Plausible Definition.
• Financial Risk in an Organisational Setting.
• Financial Risk and ‘Market Dynamics.’
• Liquidity Risk.
• Operating Risk.
• Fraud Risk.
• Settlement Risk.
• Corporate Strategy and Risk Management.
• The Currency Derivatives Market.

Financial Risk and Unpredictability: Uncontrollable Environmental Issues

• Asset Behaviour and Pricing Implications.
• Credit and Counterparty Risk.
• The Legal and Political Risk Environments.
• Risk as an Economic Factor.
• Technological Risk Factor.
• Risk associated with Socio-Cultural Change.

Financial Risk Settings: A Meta-Analytical Exploration

• Risk in Financial Institutions.
• Banking Risk.
• Risk and the Currency Market.
• Risk and the Equity Market.
• Futures Market Risk.

Financial Exposure as Risk

• Economic Exposure.
• Transaction Exposure.
• Translation Exposure.
• Calculating Risk in Financial Exposure.

Risk Management: A Conceptual and Statistical Meta-Analysis

• Conducting A Risk Assessment.
• Managing Risk with Forward Contracts.
• Financial methods of measuring Risk.
• Quantifying financial risks.
• Some Qualitative Approaches to Financial Risk Assessment.
• Managing the Interest Rate Derivatives Market.
• Managing equity risk.
• Identifying and measuring Currency Risk.
• Managing Financial Exposure Risk.
• Managing currency Risk.
• Sensitivity Analysis As Risk Management.
• Managing Risk with SWAPS.
• Statistical Analysis as a Risk Management Instrument.
• Interpreting Statistical Data.
• Mean and Statistical Mean.
• Variance and Standard Deviation.
• Probability and Normal Distribution.
• Degrees of Confidence.
• Correlation and auto-correlation.
• Calculating statistics from actual data.
• Understanding Statistical Significance.
• Making Sense of Chi-squared Distribution.
• Using Software to analyze data.
• Using PESTEL as a Tool to Risk Management.

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

·         Discussion

·         Presentation

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session