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Delft University of Technology

An Introduction to Credit Risk Management

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Overview

Imagine that you are a bank and a main part of your daily business is to lend money. Unfortunately, lending money is a risky business - there is no 100% guarantee that you will get all your money back. If the borrower defaults, you will face losses in your portfolio. Or, in a bit less extreme scenario, if the credit quality of your counterparty deteriorates according to some rating system, the loan will become more risky. These are typical situations in which credit risk manifests itself.

According to the Basel Accords, a global regulation framework for financial institutions, credit risk is one of the three fundamental risks a bank or any other regulated financial institution has to face when operating in the markets (the two other risks being market risk and operational risk). As the 2008 financial crisis has shown us, a correct understanding of credit risk and the ability to manage it are fundamental in today’s world.

This course offers you an introduction to credit risk modelling and hedging. We will approach credit risk from the point of view of banks, but most of the tools and models we will overview can be beneficial at the corporate level as well.

At the end of the course, you will be able to understand and correctly use the basic tools of credit risk management, both from a theoretical and, most of all, a practical point of view. For each methodology, we will analyse its strengths as well as its weaknesses. We will do this in a rigorous way, but also with fun: there is no need to be boring.

Taught by

Pasquale Cirillo

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  • Anonymous
    It seems good and I really like to study in depth for my future improvement.it is also fundamental and necessary course in all business sectors. Credit risk has its own impact in performance of the business.
  • My advice is to skip mathematical and programming parts if you don't want to get into that and you will still find this course very useful in understanding at least partially the framework of credit risk management. And above all, thanks to the honesty of Dr. Cirillo you'll find very interesting resources about the flaws in the system during the recent crisis e.g. Taleb's BLACK SWAN audition :-D
  • Swap
    Cool intro to Basel accords and Credit rating and Management. Also you will run Introduction to R. However you should be patience while taking the class. Hope you will enjoy the session.

    Thanks
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