Financial Risk Management

This course teaches you the fundamentals of financial risk management, focusing on practical implementation and application. You will explore a variety of risks that financial managers face and the tools available for managing them. Particularly, you’ll dive into credit risk, interest rate, foreign exchange risk and operational risk.
Extreme market events are a key risk management concern, especially in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the many unresolved issues it presented. In this course, you will investigate some of the biggest financial shocks through case studies and solve these cases by applying the concepts acquired in this course. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to explain what risk and risk management means in a corporate setting, common methods for managing and measuring risk and developing a risk management strategy. It will be most beneficial for you to have a basic knowledge of finance and accounting. Please note that this course does not serve as a preparation for the FRM exams.