Program Brief

This intensive three-day training program is specifically designed to enhance participants' understanding of asset and liability management. Offered in English, the program equips participants with the necessary knowledge to master regulatory frameworks such as Basel I, Basel II, and Basel III, and to develop effective risk management strategies that are vital for banking and financial operations. The program includes practical applications of risk management theories, asset and liability management techniques, and insights into treasury products. It utilizes a variety of training methods including lectures, case studies, and practical exercises to ensure a comprehensive and integrated training experience. Develop your skills in gap analysis and liquidity risk management, learn how to navigate complex financial situations, and apply hedging strategies using derivatives to minimize risks associated with interest rates and currency fluctuations. Participate in interactive sessions that enhance the collaborative learning environment and deepen your practical understanding of the topics. This program is not just about theoretical learning; it focuses on applying knowledge in real-time scenarios to enable you to acquire the skills necessary for making strategic financial decisions. Whether you are looking to deepen your understanding of asset and liability structures in the banking sector or improve your risk assessment and management capabilities, this program will provide you with the tools needed for success

Program Topic
  • Accounting and Finance
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Program Goals

At the end of the training program, the participant should be able to:

  • Gain a solid understanding of the regulatory frameworks affecting asset and liability management, including Basel agreements and their impacts on banking operations.
  • Develop skills to effectively manage and control various types of financial risks, incorporating strategies from global risk management practices.
  • Deepen understanding of the key roles and functions within treasury operations, focusing on risk centralization, profit centre management, and internal bank funding mechanisms.
  • Master advanced techniques in managing assets and liabilities, such as gap analysis, duration gaps, and liquidity risk management.
  • Learn practical applications of hedging strategies using forwards, futures, options, and swaps to mitigate interest rate and currency risks.
  • Engage with detailed case studies to apply theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios, enhancing decision-making skills and strategic thinking.
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Program Agenda
Module 1: THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT FROM AN ALM PERSPECTIVE
  • 1 Background: Basel I

    • 2 Basel III 2.1. Liquidity 2.2. Capital 2.3. Leverage 2.4. Systemic risk

      Module 2: McKINSEY’S FIVE STEPS TO MORE EFFECTIVE GLOBAL RISK MANAGEMENT
      • 1 Core treasury activities

        • 2 Obstacles to expansion into emerging markets

          • 3 Strengthening governance

            • 4 The enhancement of treasury systems

              • 5 Improving the accuracy of cash flow forecasts

                • 6 Managing working capital globally

                  Module 3: RISK MANAGEMENT
                  • 1 Role of the treasurer

                    • 2 Role of the CFO

                      • 3 Role of the ALCO

                        • 4 Functions of a treasury

                          • 5 Centralising risk

                            • 6 Profit centres and cost centres

                              • 7 Netting and in-house banks

                                • 8 Importance of policies, procedures and risk management controls

                                  • 9 Exercise: defining and categorising different types of risk 9.1. Definitions of risk 9.2. Asymmetrical risks 9.3. Understanding the symmetry of market risks

                                    • 10 Exercise: testing for long and short positions

                                      • 11 Exercise: exposure management

                                        Module 4: USERS OF TREASURY PRODUCTS
                                        • 1 Borrowers

                                          • 2 Investors and wealth managers

                                            • 3 Commercial, investment and private banks

                                              Module 5: ASSET
                                              • 1 Recent trends in ALM

                                                • 2 Yield curve analysis

                                                  • 3 Gap analysis

                                                    • 4 Net interest income

                                                      • 5 Duration gaps

                                                        • 6 Economic value of equity

                                                          • 7 Value at risk

                                                            • 8 Setting and monitoring tolerance limits

                                                              • 9 Optimising income and managing risk

                                                                • 10 Typical practices in funds transfer pricing

                                                                  • 11 Managing liquidity risk

                                                                    • 12 Likely developments in ALM

                                                                      • 13 Case study: The rules of risk management 13.1. Return and risk 13.2. Transparency 13.3. Experience 13.4. Known unknowns and unknown unknowns 13.5. Communication 13.6. Diversification 13.7. Discipline 13.8. Fraud, mismanagement, greed and corrupt

                                                                        • 14 Case study: bank bosses must ensure honesty is best policy

                                                                          • 15 Case study: FRA’S, futures, and interest rate swaps 15.1. Buying and selling FRAs 15.2. Selling and buying futures 15.3. Paying and receiving fixed rates in the swap markets 15.4. Perfect hedges and basis risk 15.5. Contrasting exchange traded a

                                                                            Continue to Module 5: ASSET
                                                                            • 1 حالة دراسية: طريقة عمل التحوط 1.1. قياس مخاطر معدل الفائدة 1.2. مدة التحوط المرجح 1.3. موازنة التحوط 1.4. معدلات التحوط 1.5. اختبار التحوط

                                                                              Module 6: FOREIGN EXCHANGE HEDGING IN THE FORWARD MARKET
                                                                              • 1 Relationship between spot and forward prices

                                                                                • 2 Approximate forward rates

                                                                                  • 3 Hedging with forward contracts

                                                                                    • 4 Motives for borrowers

                                                                                      • 5 Motives for investors

                                                                                        Module 7: HEDGING WITH EXCHANGE TRADED CURRENCY OPTIONS
                                                                                        • 1 Measuring the initial exposure

                                                                                          • 2 Buying puts and calls

                                                                                            • 3 Break-evens and pay-off profiles

                                                                                              • 4 Relationship between exchange traded options and futures

                                                                                                • 5 Put/call parity

                                                                                                  Module 8: CURRENCY SWAPS
                                                                                                  • 1 Fees and expenses

                                                                                                    • 2 Establishing the cash flows

                                                                                                      • 3 Plumbing diagrams

                                                                                                        • 4 All in fixed rate costs

                                                                                                          • 5 All in floating rate costs

                                                                                                            • 6 Initial payments and receipts

                                                                                                              • 7 Annual payments and receipts

                                                                                                                • 8 Dynamics of basis swap prices

                                                                                                                  • 9 Hedging with basis swaps

                                                                                                                    • 10 Cross default, Pari passu and negative pledges

                                                                                                                      Module 9: ASSET
                                                                                                                      • 1 Key liquidity and funding metrics

                                                                                                                        • 2 Understanding the eve and NII results

                                                                                                                          • 3 Role of economic forecasts

                                                                                                                            • 4 Business lines and control function s and strategy

                                                                                                                              • 5 Compliance with limits and planned future actions

                                                                                                                                • 6 Accepting recommendations without debate or challenge

                                                                                                                                  • 7 Managing the agenda

                                                                                                                                    Module 10: MANAGING INTEREST RATE RISK IN THE BANKING BOOK (1)
                                                                                                                                    • 1 Time value of money

                                                                                                                                      • 2 Future value and present value

                                                                                                                                        • 3 Implied repo rates

                                                                                                                                          • 4 Discount factors and compound factors

                                                                                                                                            • 5 Simple interest and compound interest

                                                                                                                                              • 6 Yield and return

                                                                                                                                                • 7 Act/act, act/360 and 30/360

                                                                                                                                                  • 8 Interpreting the yield curve

                                                                                                                                                    • 9 A guide to money market products

                                                                                                                                                      • 10 Duration, PV01s and DV01s

                                                                                                                                                        Continue to Module 10: MANAGING INTEREST RATE RISK IN THE BANKING BOOK (2)
                                                                                                                                                        • 1 The mechanism of FRAs

                                                                                                                                                          • 2 Calculating FRA rates

                                                                                                                                                            • 3 Hedging and trading with FRAs

                                                                                                                                                              • 4 Calculating the settlement amount

                                                                                                                                                                • 5 FRAs and FX swaps

                                                                                                                                                                  • 6 Pricing forwards from FRAs

                                                                                                                                                                    • 7 FRAs and futures

                                                                                                                                                                      Module 11: EVE AND HEDGING
                                                                                                                                                                      • 1 Relating EVE to earnings

                                                                                                                                                                        • 2 EVE and estimated actual reported earnings

                                                                                                                                                                          • 3 What does EVE really reveal about future earnings

                                                                                                                                                                            • 4 Managing EVE

                                                                                                                                                                              • 5 Using EVE to alter future earnings

                                                                                                                                                                                • 6 Managing EVE when portfolios are not marketable

                                                                                                                                                                                  • 7 Causes of sensitivity in EVE

                                                                                                                                                                                    • 8 Hedging the risk in the sensitivity to EVE

                                                                                                                                                                                      Module 12: LIQUIDITY COVERAGE RATIOS
                                                                                                                                                                                      • 1 LCR calculation

                                                                                                                                                                                        • 2 Stock of high-quality liquid assets/buffer 2.1. Levels one assets 2.2. Level two assets

                                                                                                                                                                                          • 3 Operational requirements

                                                                                                                                                                                            • 4 Calculation of net cash outflows

                                                                                                                                                                                              Module 13: HEDGING DURATION GAPS
                                                                                                                                                                                              • 1 The economic value of equity

                                                                                                                                                                                                • 2 Positive and negative gaps

                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 3 Estimating changes in the economic value of equity

                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 4 Durations of assets and liabilities

                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 5 Leverage adjusted duration gaps

                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 6 Hedging with forward contracts

                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 7 Hedging withe futures contracts

                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 8 Hedging with swaps

                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 9 Stress testing hedges

                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 10 EVE and duration gaps

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Module 14: HEDGING PITFALLS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 1 Status quo

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 2 Taking a view

                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 3 Engaging with business partners

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 4 Attitude to losses

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 5 Balance sheet forecasting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 6 Volatility and liquidity management

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 7 Spreadsheets

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 8 The costs of FX trading

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 9 ISDA and counterparty risk management

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 10 Timing of FX results

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Module 15: FUNDS TRANSFER PRICING
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 1 What is FTP?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 2 Why do FTP?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 3 How do you do FTP?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 4 Pooled funding

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 5 Multiple pooled funding

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 6 Matched maturity method

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 7 Refinement - adding to the base cost

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 8 FTP In practice

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 9 What does the regulator want?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 10 What's the role of treasury?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 11 Are there pitfalls?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Module 16: INTEREST RATE HEDGING AND MARKET-MAKING
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 1 ALM hedging and market making simulation

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 2 ALCO meeting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 3 Hedging, trading and market making session

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 4 Protecting the bank’s earnings

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 5 Defining a strategy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 6 Managing interest rate risk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 7 Calculating the impact on net interest income

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 8 CASE-STUDY: ALM at Lehman Brothers 8.1. Weaknesses in checks and balances 8.2. Valukas Report 8.3. Vulnerability to collapse 8.4. Shadow banking systems 8.5. Fundamental regulatory failure 8.6. Flight risk 8.7. Derivative exposures and market tur

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 9 CASE-STUDY: Multi-Currency Asset

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Module 17: BALANCE SHEET MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 1 Capital constraints

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 2 Impact on roe and raroc

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • 3 ALM for capital markets

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • 4 ALM and balance sheet

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 5 Management of RAROC and capital charge of treasury products under Basel Framework

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • 6 Liquidity constraints

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • 7 NII sensitivity

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 8 Pillar 1

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Program Method
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Lecture
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Case Studies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Brainstroming
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Practical Implementation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Dialogue Teams
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Exercises and assignments
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Evaluation Method
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Pre Exam
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Post Exam
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • In Class Training
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Online Training

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