Managing Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Risk for Corporate Clients
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| Description: | This webinar will provide a tutorial on managing foreign exchange risk and interest rate risk for Corporate Clients incorporating the latest updates from the “Volker Rules” and Basel 3.0 feedback loops from your bank counterparties. Why Should You Attend: The structure and fabric of the currency markets and rate markets may well undergo a period of profound stress during the “Great Unwind” precipitated by the Federal Reserve. Technology is also challenging our understanding of just what a currency is at present. Basel 3.0 and the Dodd Frank inspired Volker Rules have changed the liquidity profile of markets and altered incentives. Centralized Clearing: What could possible go wrong here? What policies should I now adopt with respect to managing our foreign exchange and interest rate exposures? Attend this webinar to learn the answers for the aforementioned and in-depth information on managing foreign exchange and interest rate risk for corporate clients. At the end of this webinar the speaker will answer your questions related to this topic. Areas Covered in the Webinar: By attending this webinar, You will be able to understand: -Classic Hedging of Interest Rate and Currency Exposures: A quick review from your CFA Program from the perspective of a hedge fund trader and risk manager. Should I use structured transactions as part of my program? -Basel 3.0 and Volker rule updates impact the processes described above with respect to at a minimum: standardization, liquidity, funding and settlement. What -should concern me? Do I need to concern myself with DVA, CVA and FVA? -Do I need an integrated Risk Management System or will separate spreadsheets suffice? Aside from operational risks inherent in spread sheets what model risk should I be comfortable in assuming, if any. What do my auditors want to see here? -Can I minimize reported earnings volatility from my hedging program while running a proactive forward looking Treasury Hedging Program? -Should I be concerned about the “lack of a risk free asset”? What could have happened to our ability to fund ourselves if there was a defaulted payment for a US Treasury Bill? Who Will Benefit: -Treasurers and their staff, -Financial Officers and their reports, -Audit Professionals (internal), -Risk Managers, -Compliance Professionals Instructor Profile: Michael Cohn, has held senior trading and principal risk taking positions for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch where he mastered the art of relative value fixed income and foreign exchange trading in cash and derivatives markets. This is precisely the underlying skill set needed to create the offensive and defensive skills needed for a modern Treasury Office. Building upon this experience he went on to found one of the first major Hedge Fund/CTA firms in London, England with Panther Capital Management while adding commodities and equity indices to his professional experience set. This was the first major CTA firm to trade options and futures as risk adjusted packages. He has specialized in risk management, trading and investments since his return to the United States in late 1999. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with academic distinction. He is currently the Chief Risk officer of Cynthion Partners, a New York based Investment Fund and Family Office as of 2013 which trades globally across all traded markets. Concurrently he advises Statman Advisors on Portfolio Investment and Risk Management. Statman Advisors specializes in Alternative Assets. Additionally he has advised Sovereign Wealth Funds with respect to building comprehensive risk management programs across the entire asset spectrum. |
| URL: | http://www.complianceonline.com/ecommerce/control/trainingFocus/~product_id=703195?channel=telesemin |
| Date: | Thursday, December 5, 2013 |
| Time: | 3:00pm-4:00pm UTC |
| Duration: | 1 hour |
| Access: | Public |
| Category: | Business*, Webinar* |
| Created by: | Public Access |
| Updated: | Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:00am UTC |
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