Course descriptionBy the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities, delegates will be able to: Give the general definition of risk; Illustrate the models towards understanding risk; Explain the underlying principle of financial risk management; Describe financial risk in the organisational setting; Establish the link between financial risk and the market dynamics; Determine the situation in which liquidity risk arises; Enumerate some sources of operating risk; Specify what are involved in managing fraud risk; Determine why settlement risk has been historically a particular problem in the foreign exchange markets; Determine how corporate strategy leads to effective risk management; Define derivatives; Determine an investor’s reason for investing in a derivative security; Describe asset behaviour and pricing implication; Know when credit risk arises; Determine how credit risks are calculated; Ascertain the importance of considering counterparty risk in evaluating contracts; Describe the legal and political risk environment; Indicate the effects of risk in the economy; Establish the primary role of technology in risk management; Specify risks that are associated with socio-cultural change; Cite some risk within the financial institutions; Enumerate the different kinds of banking risk and explain each; Determine the reason for the existence of foreign currency market; Establish the link between risk and equity market; Discuss about future’s market risk; Determines the extent to which the company is affected by economic exposure; Illustrate the channels of economic exposure; Illustrate their knowledge to what type of company is susceptible to transaction exposure; Cite some strategies to manage transaction exposure; Indicate when translation exposure occurs; Calculate risk in financial exposure; Conduct a risk assessment; Demonstrate an understanding on how to manage risk with forward contracts; Identify some financial methods of measuring risk; Demonstrate how financial risks are quantified; Specify some qualitative approaches to financial risk assessment; Find out how the interest rate derivatives market are managed; Demonstrate an understanding on how to manage equity risk; Identify and measure currency risk; Manage currency risk; Discuss about sensitivity analysis as risk management; Manage risk with SWAPS; Find out how statistical analysis is used as a risk management instrument; Interpret statistical data; Demonstrate an understanding of mean and statistical mean; Explain probability and normal distribution; Calculate statistics from actual data; Demonstrate an understanding of the significance of statistics; Explain the concept of Chi-Squared Distribution; and Use PESTEL in risk management.