Introduction to Credit Derivatives

This one day course assumes that participants have no or minimal knowledge of credit derivatives. The instruction is interactive and will involve exercises and articles about recent developments in credit derivatives. Participants will work individually and in teams.

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Regulators, compliance, operations staff.
No advance preparation required.
Students will be able to:
  • Define credit risk
  • Identify features of total return swaps and credit defaults
  • Examine how credit derivatives are used by financial institutions in their hedging strategies
  • Evaluate how credit derivatives give rise to market, credit, legal and operational risks
  • Define what minimum risk management practices banks should have in place for the use of credit derivatives
Knowledge of derivative contracts.
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Requirements:
Financial calculator needed
Module I - Introduction
  • What is credit risk?
  • Purpose of credit derivatives
  • Market participants
  • Role of regulators

Module II - The Credit Derivatives Family

  • ISDA
  • Description of vanilla vs. structured derivatives
  • Characteristics shared in the family of credit derivatives

Module III - Total Return Swaps

  • Characteristics
  • Exercise

Module IV - Credit Default Swaps

  • Characteristics - vanilla, binary, basket and portfolio CDSs
  • Team exercise

Module V - Risks and Risk Management of Credit Derivatives

  • Credit
  • Operations
  • Market
  • Liquidity
  • Legal
  • Risk Management
  • Influence of Basel II on credit derivatives and risk management

Clients who register for this course will receive a complimentary 6 month subscription to the Financial Times and FT.com. The Financial Times is the world's most respected financial newspaper providing a broad assessment on finance, business and the industrial sector. Subscriptions will start within 6-8 weeks of the application process, and are limited to one per client. For questions about your subscriptions call 800-628-8088 or email uscirculation@ft.com. US and Canada enrollees only.

Lunch included for all students taking day classes.