Financial Risk Management

We live in a volatile financial world. Recent events show that the previously unthinkable could and does happen. To thrive in this environment, organisations need to understand the risks that exist, their interrelationships and how they should be managed.

Kaplan Professional’s Financial Risk Management course provides a valuable insight into the key sources of financial risk, their measurement and the practical strategies used to mitigate them.

Who should attend?

This course is perfect for a range of people working in the financial services industry, including compliance, regulatory and risk management personnel, financial risk managers (middle and front office personnel), chief financial officers, company secretaries and audit personnel, credit personnel, dealers and analysts, and legal personnel.

What will I learn?

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• outline how key financial risks apply to finance sector enterprises
• explain the characteristics of market, credit, operational, legal, regulatory and reputation risk
• discuss the various local and global factors that impact on types of financial risk
• discuss the use of hedging techniques in managing market risk
• discuss methods of assessing credit worthiness and managing credit portfolio risk and credit default risk
• discuss operational risk management processes
• describe the difficulties and practicalities of managing legal/regulatory and reputation risk
• explain the purpose of the Basel II capital accord framework and its operation.

What topics will be covered?

• introduction to financial risk management
• market risk
• credit risk
• operational risk
• legal/regulatory and reputation risk
• basel II and risk management.

How to register

In-house workshops:

Our workshops can be customised and delivered at your premises giving you access to the training you need, when you need it. For more information or to discuss your training needs, please call 1300 728 505 or via email corporatesolutions@kaplan.edu.au.

Public course held at Kaplan Professional:

How to register? Please check our Calendar of Short Courses to see if the course you wish to attend is scheduled in your region. If it is scheduled in your region, click the relevant course name and follow the prompts.

Expressions of Interest: We can schedule workshops for small groups at mutually suitable times at Kaplan Professional. If you are interested in attending a workshop, please complete an Expression of Interest form to enable us assess the level of interest for that course. We will then place your name on our waiting list for that particular course and will contact you as soon as we have received sufficient interest to run the course. (A minimum of 8 participants is required to run a course.) Scheduled courses may then be open to the public.

For more information, please call 1300 527 526 or email pdmail@kaplan.edu.au.

* The PD points quoted here are intended to be used as a guide only. Your Compliance Manager or Professional Body may assess this program according to their own guidelines. To receive PD points please take this course outline to your Compliance Manager or Professional Body for accreditation.

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