Popular Courses

Securitisation: The Financial Instrument of the New Millennium: 2 -days or 3 days, covering a broad spectrum of issues including motivations, legal issues, financial structure and cost of securitisation, accounting and taxation, regulatory capital.
Cashflow modelling for securitisation – 2 -days or 3 days, covering practical cashflow modelling for securitisation transactions, starting from simple class room models to models for real life transactions
Investing in Asset backed Securities – 2- days course structured specially from investors’ viewpoint.
Legal tax and accounting issues in securitisation – A course dedicated to legal, true sale, documentation, accounting, taxation and regulatory capital related issues.
We combine these in longer courses such as Securitisation School or Securitisation Masterclass.

Credit derivatives: The world of commoditisation of credit: 2 -days covering broad spectrum of issues on credit derivatives including types, economics, strategic issues, legal, tax and accounting issues, capital rules and economic capital, pricing of credit derivatives etc.
Exotic credit derivatives A 1-day presentation on the latest developments in credit derivatives; we take account of what is making waves in the marketplace.
Investing in credit linked notes – A one-day/2 days’ course structured specially from viewpoint of investors.
We will club these outlines in Credit Derivatives Masterclass which may run for 3 days/ 4 days duration.

Quantitative approaches to pricing of a credit risk : 2 -days covering Excel-based practical training on credit risk pricing – covers Merton and Merton-based models, intensity based pricing, portfolio risk pricing, orrelation and simulations to price portfolio risk, economic capital computation..

The World of CDOs: : 2 -days covering at length the CDO world – including full array of CDO field; balance sheet and arbitrage deals, synthetic and cash deals, managed and static deals. Motivations, functioning, with case studies.
Synthetic CDOs: A 2-day course that will focus on synthetic CDOs and cover lots of case studies of real life transactions. Includes fair exposure to credit derivatives as well.
Investing in CDOs – A 2-day course designed specially from investors’ perspective.
We will club these outlines into a CDO

Asset Finance and Leasing – This 2-days/ 3 days course covers basics of leasing, financial and operating leases, legal and tax issues on leasing, tax benefits of leasing, pricing, accounting, etc.
Operating Leasing workshop: This 2 days’ workshop covers operating leasing in fine details, including pricing, residual risk mitigation, accounting, taxation, etc.
Leasing: Legal, tax and accounting issues: This 2-day event focuses on tax, legal and accounting issues for financial and operating leases.

Accounting for Financial Instruments [IAS 39/ FAS 133] This 2-days event covers accounting for financial instruments, derivatives, embedded derivatives and the hedging rules of IAS 39/ FAS 133 with lots of examples and workings. May be extended to 3 days to allow practice.