This Learning Network is a subscription based online learning tool with topic-specific roadmaps covering Treasury, Risk, Corporate Governance and Compliance space.

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The Learning Network evolved over the last 9 years through our learning practice based on feedback from customers in Treasury, Risk, Financial Institution, Corporate, Investment and Private banking teams. Most customers use it as a training platform for cross selling opportunities by bringing together customers, product ideas, treasury infrastructure and sales team.

Designed for clients with immediate learning needs where on-site live training is not an option on account of travel restrictions, budgets and scheduling conflicts.

 

Features

Training content covering risk, pricing, market trends, trade ideas/execution, compliance, banking regulation, corporate finance, derivative products, treasury operations and asset liability management.
Based on over a decade of risk, asset management and treasury product consulting experience in the Middle East, North America, Europe and South Asia.
Addresses different levels of expertise through foundation courses for beginners to more advanced technical courses for quant professionals.

 

A browser-based hosted facility providing affordable and convenient delivery of topic-specific content. The site is managed, updated and upgraded by our team, freeing you from the headache of supporting a live actively used learning resource portal.

Catalogues the full range of our 40+ and growing inventory list of active courses, from basic topics such as an introductory course in corporate finance to more advanced level courses such as derivative pricing and interest rate modeling.

Provides custom role specific recommendations and resources pertaining to our product, risk and pricing courses for various roles such as Treasury Professionals, Relationship or Account Managers, Senior Executives and Risk Managers.

Suggests customized topic specific learning roadmaps, written by subject matter experts, that provide necessary course learning focus and direction which aid in the process of understanding and mastering difficult or complex financial concepts. Roadmaps include html material, video courses, downloadable pdf notes and excel examples/ templates.

Contains video courses that walk through the subject on an one-on-one personalized basis. These cover an introduction to the subject, clarifying concepts, terminology and notation, discussions on more advanced topics within the subject and sessions that demonstrate the entire process of building custom excel spread sheets for various calculations and pricing/ valuation models.

Contains video courses that walk through the subject on an one-on-one personalized basis. These cover an introduction to the subject, clarifying concepts, terminology and notation, discussions on more advanced topics within the subject and sessions that demonstrate the entire process of building custom excel spread sheets for various calculations and pricing/ valuation models.

Contains video courses that walk through the subject on an one-on-one personalized basis. These cover an introduction to the subject, clarifying concepts, terminology and notation, discussions on more advanced topics within the subject and sessions that demonstrate the entire process of building custom excel spread sheets for various calculations and pricing/ valuation models.

 

 

Content

You will get following video courses and topic guides at one flat price.

Video Course List

Item
 
Sessions
 
ALM and Capital Adequacy – Course Outline  
  • Introduction to Asset Liability Management
  • Interest Rate mismatch & ALM
  • ALM reports and extensions
  • Evolution of Capital Adequacy requirements
  • Review of ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process) & Basel II (III) – Liquidity risk adjustments
  • Understanding Duration & Convexity
 
Calculating VaR ( Value at Risk) – Course Outline  
  • Theoretical Overview
  • VaR Qualifications
  • Calculating VaR for a single security using VCV and Historical Simulation approaches
  • Extending the VaR model to a portfolio. Calculating portfolio VaR without a VCV matrix
  • Value at risk for Fixed income securities – Rate and Price VaR; Delta and Full Valuation approaches
 
Cross Selling Treasury Products – Course Outline  
  • Cross Selling Treasury Product: 5 Core themes for our discussion
  • Working through numbers – Introducing Value at Risk and PSR
  • The Petrochemical Case Study: Estimating Client Exposure
  • Core Treasury products and TMU customer reactions
  • Derivative Crash Course: Vanilla and Exotics Derivative Contracts – A Quick walk through
 
Option Pricing using Binomial Trees – Course Outline  
  • Theoretical Overview of Derivatives and their Payoffs
  • Option Pricing using the Conventional Binomial Tree Approach
  • Option Pricing using the Efficient Tree Approach
  • Pricing American Options & Exotics using the Efficient Binomial Tree Approach
  • Increasing time steps and improving result accuracy using the Efficient Binomial Trees Approach
 
Option Pricing using Monte Carlo Simulation – Course Outline  
  • Black Scholes, N(d1) and N(d2), Monte Carlo Simulator – Theory and Model Review
  • Monte Carlo Simulator – Basic Model Walkthrough
  • Understanding N(d1) and N(d2) and Option Exercise using Monte Carlo
  • Building a Monte Carlo simulator – Foundations
  • Using data tables to store Monte Carlo simulation results
  • Estimating errors and improving results accuracy
  • Pricing Exotic Option using Monte Carlo
 
Pitching for Startups – Course Outline  
  • Pitching for Entrepreneurs – the Pitching framework: Making it real
  • Pitching Business Plans – The voice of your customer
  • Pitching Business Plans: Business Models
  • Pitching Business Plans: Competition and Competitive Advantage
  • Pitching Business Plans: Integrating the lessons
 
Quant Crash Course – Course Outline  
  • Risk & Context
  • Value at Risk
  • Capital – Learning to work with capital
  • Limits
 
Selling Derivatives Products – Course Outline   Core Treasury products and TMU customer reactions

  • Derivative Crash Course: Vanilla and Exotics Derivative Contracts – A Quick walk through
 
Setting Value at Risk, Stop Loss, Pre Settlement and Counterparty Limits – Course Outline  
  • Setting Limits
 
Stress Testing – Course Outline  
  • Introduction
  • Stress Testing Framework
  • Stress Testing Capital
  • Introduction to Asset Liability Management
  • Interest Rate mismatch & ALM
  • ALM reports and extensions
  • Value at Risk
  • Capital – Learning to work with capital
  • Evolution of Capital Adequacy requirements
  • Review of ICAAP (Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process) & Basel II (III) – Liquidity risk adjustments
  • Understanding Duration & Convexity
 
Understanding N(d1) and N(d2) – Course Outline  
  • Black Scholes, N(d1) and N(d2), Monte Carlo Simulator – Theory and Model Review
  • Monte Carlo Simulator – Basic Model Walkthrough
  • Understanding N(d1) and N(d2) and Option Exercise using Monte Carlo
 

 

Topic Guides

Item
 
Content
 
Asset Liability Management (ALM) Crash Course   PDF notes

  1. ALM Crash Course

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. ALM Crash Course – Excel Examples [includes Cost of Close Liquidity Gaps, Cost of Close Interest Rate Risk, Earnings at Risk, Market Value of Equity]
  2. Duration Convexity Example 
 
Black-Derman-Toy (BDT) Interest Rate Model   PDF notes

  1. How to construct a Black Derman Toy Model in EXCEL

  2. How to utilize results of a Black Derman Toy Model

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Black-Derman-Toy Model Construction – EXCEL Example
  2. How to utilize results of a Black Derman Toy Model – EXCEL Example
 
Basel & ICAAP   PDF notes

  1. ICAAP – Overview & Core Concepts
  2. ICAAP Sample Report Template & Executive Summary
  3. Basel III – Liquidity Framework
 
Calculating Value at Risk (VaR)   PDF notes

  1. Calculating VaR – Includes case study

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Calculating VaR – EXCEL Example
  2. Portfolio VaR – EXCEL Example
 
Credit Analysis & Credit Process   PDF notes

  1. Credit Analysis – First Course
  2. Credit Analysis – Financial Institution
  3. Credit Process

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Credit Analysis – Financial Institution – EXCEL Example
 
Derivatives Pricing   PDF notes

  1. Derivative Pricing – Binomial Trees – Efficient Approach

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Valuing Options – Black Scholes Example
  2. Valuing Options – Binomial Tree Example – Traditional Approach
  3. Derivative Pricing – Binomial Trees – EXCEL Example
 
Derivative Products   PDF notes

  1. Derivatives Terminology Crash Course
  2. Derivative Products
 
Heath Jarrow Merton (HJM) Interest Rate Model   EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Pricing IRS – Module I – Term Structures EXCEL Example
  2. Heath Jarrow Merton – HJM 3 – Factor Interest Rate Model
  3. Principal Component Analysis – PCA – US Treasury Yield Rates
 
Interest Rate Simulation Crash Course   PDF notes

  1. Interest Rate Simulation Crash Course

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Pricing IRS – Module I – Term Structures EXCEL Example
  2. Calibration of CIR Model Example
  3. Black-Derman-Toy Model Construction – EXCEL Example
  4. How to utilize results of a Black Derman Toy Model – EXCEL Example
  5. Heath Jarrow Merton – HJM 3 – Factor Interest Rate Model
  6. Principal Component Analysis – PCA – US Treasury Yield Rates
 
Monte Carlo Simulation   EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Monte Carlo Simulation – Commodity – Example
  2. Monte Carlo Simulation – Currency – Example
  3. Monte Carlo Simulation – Equity – Example
 
Pricing Interest Rate Swaps and Interest Rate Options   PDF notes

  1. Pricing IRS – Module I – Term Structures
  2. Pricing IRS – Module II – IRS and CCS
  3. Pricing Interest Rate Options – Module III

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Pricing IRS – Module I – Term Structures EXCEL Example
  2. Pricing IRS – Module II – IRS and CCS EXCEL Example
  3. Pricing Interest Rate Options – Module III EXCEL Example
 
Setting Counterparty Limits   PDF notes

  1. Setting Counterparty Limits
  2. Sample Counterparty Limit Proposal

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. Setting Limits – EXCEL Example
 
Treasury Crash Course   PDF notes

  1. Treasury Crash Course

EXCEL Worksheets

  1. ALM Crash Course – Excel Examples [includes Cost of Close Liquidity Gaps, Cost of Close Interest Rate Risk, Earnings at Risk, Market Value of Equity]
  2. Duration Convexity Example 
  3. Calculating VaR – EXCEL Example
 

 

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USD 399 per user
  • 20+ users  
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