Model Risk Management Best Practices

Short course

In New York (USA)

£ 2,527.97 VAT exempt

*Indicative price

Original amount in USD:

$ 3,190

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Location

    New york (USA)

  • Duration

    2 Days

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This program covers the key aspects relating to model risk management as practiced by leading financial institutions. The course addresses common issues of model design inadequacy, parameter flaws, interpolating and bootstrapping errors as well as reliance on back testing on out of sample data sets from a practical viewpoint.

A broad range of models are covered, including pricing, market risk, credit portfolio, economic capital, counterparty risk and stress testing models. Issues of regulatory compliance and governance, policies and controls get addressed from a functional perspective with an aim to achieve efficiency when dealing with model risks in banking.

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New York (USA)
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About this course

Auditors (internal and external)
Industry Regulators
Risk Managers and Risk Controllers
Banking Executives
Compliance Officers

A basic understanding of risk management and standard measures of risk. A basic understanding of probability and the mathematical foundations of financial models.

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Subjects

  • IT risk
  • Risk
  • Testing
  • Market
  • Risk Management
  • Market Risk
  • Governance
  • Credit
  • Risk Sources
  • Dimensionality
  • Economic Decisions
  • Eigenvalue
  • Cholesky
  • Bootstrapping Errors
  • Stress VaR
  • Volatilities

Teachers and trainers (1)

Andre Horovitz

Andre Horovitz

Teacher

Andre Horovitz is the Founder of Financial Risk Fitness and has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Mr Horovitz started his banking career at Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for pricing, developing hedging strategies and marketing exotic interest rate derivatives. He subsequently held senior executive positions at Oliver, Wyman & Co., Commerzbank, HVB Group (currently part of Unicredit), Nagler & Company and was Chief Risk Officer at Erste Bank and Credit Suisse. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and a contributor to various industry journals.

Course programme

Day One

Introduction of Model Risks and illustration of severe losses resulted from inadequate use of models in banks

Internal Rating Models and challenges
  • Calibration to Rating Agencies Models (PDs)
  • Validation Issues
  • Reliance on Spreads and other Market Data
  • Reliance on historical back testing
Pricing Models and Risk Sources
  • Mapping to Risk Factors
  • Wrong & Corrupt Datasets on Key Parameters: rates, volatilities, ETF values, etc.
  • Interpolation and Bootstrapping Errors
Market Risk Models
  • Errors resulting from dimensionality reduction
    - Cholesky Decomposition
    - Eigenvalue eigenvector Analyses
Market Liquidity Concerns
  • LVaR; Liquidity at Risk; Stress VaR, Expected Shortfall (CVaR) & other mitigating measures
Sensitivity Analyses
  • Incremental, component and Marginal VaR
  • Augmenting Means – Best Practices
Day Two

Credit Portfolio Models and Economic Capital Models
  • Precision vs Utility – Discussion
  • Marginal Economic Decisions – Examples
Capital Allocation Models – Reliance on Correlations

Governance, Policies and Controls – Best Practices

Model Risk in Counterparty Risk Models

Numerical Simplifications and Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
  • American Monte Carlo Methods
  • Reduced Form Models
Model Risk in Stress Testing Models

Model Risk Management Best Practices

£ 2,527.97 VAT exempt

*Indicative price

Original amount in USD:

$ 3,190