Derivative Credit Risk Judgment and Management

The Derivative Credit Risk Judgment and Management seminar offers an overview of how to analyze cash flows for a single transaction, aggregate cash flows for all derivative products, ascertain peak credit exposures, determine accurate derivative credit costs, contrast derivative trading with derivative credit risk and achieve consensus among traders and credit officers as they develop policies and systems to govern derivative transactions.

The concepts and techniques offered in these seminars are useful not only for identifying derivative credit risk within a counterparty's overall credit risk but also for refining credit policies. The seminar outlines steps for gradually implementing increasingly sophisticated techniques for measuring, costing and managing derivative exposure.


Credit officers, credit administrators and derivative salesmen and traders
No advance preparation required.
Students will be able to:
  • Apply an analytical framework that defines the stages required to clarify derivative credit risk
  • Construct the cash flows for individual derivatives transactions as well as evaluate the reasons for hedging
  • Apply a model that compares, equates and aggregates cash flows for swaps, forwards, options, etc.
  • Employ ratings, default grids and cost of capital assumptions to determine accurate credit costs for derivatives transactions
  • Evaluate differences between derivative trading and derivative credit risk
  • Review derivative documentation and evaluate the credit risk of participants in derivative markets
No previous derivative experience is required
  • Credit Portfolio Risk Management
  • Credit Default Swaps: From Vanilla to Exotic - Evening
  • Day 1
    • Introductions and objectives
    • Understanding and assessing ratings and risk factors
    • Financial institution rating analysis and methodology
    • Background on derivatives
    • Capturing derivative benefits

    Day 2
    • Derivative credit exposure measurement
    • Introduction to JPMorganChase - part 1
    • Workshop on JPMorganChase - part 1
    • Group presentations - part 1
    • Introduction to JPMorganChase - part 2
    • Workshop on JPMorganChase - part 2
    • Group presentations - part 2

    Day 3
    • Introduction to Fannie Mae case
    • Workshop on Fannie Mae case
    • Group presentations
    • Introduction to Washington Mutual, Inc. case
    • Workshop on Washington Mutual, Inc. case
    • Group presentations
    • Program wrap up

    Clients who register for this course will receive a complimentary 4-month subscription to FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's most respected financial newspaper, providing a broad assessment on finance, business and the industrial sector. The move to the electronic version follows an ongoing review of our environmental responsibilities as a global business and as part of the Pearson group. FT.com also has features that are not available in hard copy, such as: Special Reports, Alphaville, editor blogs, education sections and much more! Subscriptions will start within 6-8 weeks of the start of class and are limited to one subscription per client. (Please note: as of May 1, 2011, the electronic subscription replaces the hard-copy 3-month Financial Times subscription.)

    Lunch is included for all students taking day classes.