Popular Courses

Counterparty Credit Risk Workshop - Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy brought the concept of counterparty risk to light across a variety of products. This interactive and case-study based intermediate level workshop analyzes the risk profile of counterparty credit risk across a variety of products and reviews the process of liquidating derivative trades post a counterparty default, including the general sequence of events laid out in master agreements and how collateral and cross margining work. The workshop uses a few derivative trades as case studies to illstrate the concepts. It also discusses the current focus and trends in the market following Lehman's default.

Credit Default Swaps  - Following the credit crisis, credit default swaps have been the focus of intense media attention and regulatory scrutiny, given their wide usage in credit markets and the counterparty credit risk to market participants as a result of such usage. Calls from regulators and investors to reduce counterparty risk and increase transparency have been met with a variety of changes to the CDS contract. More recently, discussions around Greek debt restructuring have been shaped by their impact on the CDS market, and Europe has banned short selling in European sovereign debt using CDS. This course takes an in-depth look at the terminology, mechanics and pricing of the CDS contract, counterparty credit risk in CDS and the initiatives to mitigate it, the impact of debt restructuring on the CDS market, and the future of the CDS market.

High Yield Investing – As the high yield and crossover markets become larger and increasingly more volatile given current market events, it is important to understand what drives the trading levels, new issuance and opportunities in the high yield market. This course analyzes high yield structures and highlights features that drive the issuance, pricing and trading of such structures. It examines the process of analyzing relative value between issuers and issues, and introduces credit analysis as an important tool in comparative analysis for the purpose of trading and investing.

CDO Risks, Returns and Litigation – While few new CDOs are being issued, litigation around CDOs has increased dramatically as investors and banks have been losing money from poorly performing CDOs. This intermediate level course focuses on the risks and returns of CDOs to all parties involved in transactions, what banks are currently doing to get rid of their risks, and the key areas of CDO litigation (controlling classes, mismatched docs, etc.).
*NB: Much of the content for this course will be drawn from our experience as expert witness in current CDO litigations. While we cannot disclose the transactions we working on, we will use public reports and filed claims as real examples of litigation.*

Please contact B&B at info@bandbsf.com for a full course outline which can then be tailored to your specific needs.

The course was well organized, well delivered and extremely useful. it exceeded my expectations by a long way, and i learnt an awful lot in the space of one day. i have already recommended this to my team.

— UK investment bank

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