eFRM Coach: Operational and Integrated Risk Management, Legal, Accounting and Ethics - Online

Drawing on proprietary risk management resources, eFRM Coach is designed to be a comprehensive online tutorial for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) Exam. The Exam is conducted by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARPTM).

The eFRM Coach provides a framework to structured exam preparation. It comprehensively addresses all subject areas featuring in the exam. The interactive study modules provided in the coach foster benchmarking and self-assessment against other candidates and the mock exams are modeled on the same lines as the final exam.

This is an asynchronous eLearning course that can be accessed 24/7 from any internet enabled computer.


Those interested in sitting for the Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) Exam.
  • eFRM Coach: Quantitative Analysis - Online
  • eFRM Coach: Market Risk Measurement and Management - Online
  • eFRM Coach: Credit Risk Measurement and Management - Online
  • eFRM Coach: Risk Management and Investment Management - Online
  • Operational Risk
    • The importance of operational risk management in the financial industry.
    • The various approaches to operational risk.
    • Calculating operational risk capital (OPVaR).
    • Approaches suggested by Basle II capital accord.

    Integrated Risk Management

    • The need for firmwide risk management in the modern financial industry
    • The lessons to be learnt from best practices in achieving Integrated Risk Management
    • An Integrated Risk Management Framework
    • The role of trading limits in controlling traders

    Risk Capital

    • The concept of economic capital
    • The Risk Adjusted Return On Capital (RAROC) process and the calculations involved
    • Applications of RAROC

    Legal Risk

    • Legal risk in financial transactions
    • The utility of netting and credit support provisions
    • ISDA Master Netting Agreement
    • Collateral provisions and the priority rules
    • Disclosure rules for derivatives

    Model Risk

    • Various types of models
    • The process to choose a good model
    • Sources of model risk
    • How to measure model risk
    • Theoretical and practical ways to prevent model risk

    Basel Market Risk Amendment

    • Internal Models Approach to calculate market risk charges
    • Stress testing and backtesting

    Securitization and SPVs

    • Treatment of securitization transactions
    • Treatment of implicit and residual risks arising from securitization transactions
    • Disclosure of qualitative items and quantitative data by banks acting as originators or sponsors or SPVs

    Basel New Capital Accord- An Overview

    • The objectives and scope of the International convergence of capital measurement and capital standards (Also known as Basel-II)
    • The substance of minimum capital requirements (Pillar-I)
    • The role of supervision as an essential complement to minimum capital requirement
    • The board qualitative and quantitative disclosures which banks have to disclose under new Basel Capital accord.

    Internal Ratings Based Approach

    • Various categories of exposures under the IRB approach
    • Risk components and risk weights for each category of exposure
    • Approaches used to estimate the risk components
    • Minimum requirements under each exposure to be eligible for the IRB approach

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