Certified Risk Manager – Online Certification Program

Course description

This certification program is relevant for people working with risk management, risk control, internal audit, financial authorities or similar. The program will provide you with a broad and deep understanding of the various risk management techniques employed in financial institutions. You will learn how to measure and manage market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk and operational risk. The program consists of three modules. After the final module you can take an exam and thereby become a Certified Risk Manager.

This program is also available as a classroom-based certification program.

How is the online course conducted?

The certification program is delivered as e-learning through our digital learning platform. The program combines narrated presentations, videos with whiteboard explanations, Excel exercises, quizzes and reading materials, allowing you to learn at your own pace – whenever and wherever it suits you.

You should allow approximately two working days for each module, including assignments and the exam – a total of approximately six working days. The program includes six months’ access.

Course content

Module 1 Market Risk Measurement and Management

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book
Value at Risk
Delta Normal Approach
Historical Simulation-based VaR
Delta VaR, Component VaR and Incremental VaR
Duration and Key Rate Duration
Capital Requirements for Market Risk
The Greeks
Simple, Exponentially Weighted Moving Average and GARCH-volatility
Stresstesting and backtesting

Module 2 Credit Risk Measurement and Management

Credit Risk Modelling
Credit Risk and Capital Requirements
Managing Credit Risk using Credit Derivatives
KMV Moody’s
CreditMetrics
Counterparty Risk
CVA, DVA, FVA and BCVA
Stresstesting

Module 3 Operational Risk and Liquidity Risk

Operational Risk Management
Framework for Operational Risk Management
Key Risk Indicators
Heat Maps
Risk Control Self Assessment
Building a Loss Database
Using External Data
Mitigation of Risk
Capital Requirements for Insurance, Pension and Credit Institutions

Liquidity Risk Management
BIS recommendations on Liquidity Risk Management
Gap analysis
Net Stable Funding Ratio
Liquidity Coverage Ratio
Funding analysis
Stresstesting
Liquidity Risk and the Sub Prime Crises
Market Liquidity Risk

The course is relevant to

Anyone wanting a deep as well as broad knowledge of how to measure and manage risk in a financial institution; among others:

– Risk Managers
– Internal Auditors
– Financial Authorities
– Middle Office Employees
– Back Office Employees
– Analysts
– Consultants
– Compliance
– Treasurers
– Regulators
– Operations
– Account Managers

Prerequisites

The program requires an introductory understanding of risks in the financial industry.

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Instructor on this course

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen

Jørgen Just Andresen is Managing Director of Financial Training Partner A/S, which he co-founded in 2002.

He has many years of teaching experience as a chief consultant at SimCorp’s training department, which he joined in 1996. Prior to SimCorp he worked at Danske Bank with fixed income research and fixed income sales.

Jørgen also works as an external lecturer at CBS (Copenhagen Business School) and was awarded teacher of the year at CBS’ education Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Financial planning).

He is author of the books Finansiel Risikostyring (Financial Risk Management) and Finansielle Derivater (Financial Derivatives) published by Djøf Publishing.

He holds an M.Sc. (international finance) and an HD (accounting).

Jørgen teaches Derivatives, Risk Management, Portfolio Management and Fixed Income

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