Geopolitical risk in finance
View AgendaKey reasons to attend
- Gain insight on geopolitical risk exposures in various areas of risk
- Develop geopolitical risk profiles and exposure maps
- Learn strategic techniques to prepare for future geopolitical risks
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About the course
This virtual learning experience offers participants insight into major geopolitical exposures, risks and dynamics that challenge our world.
Sessions detail pertinent geopolitical events and explore their impacts on banking and trading books. Participants will practically map the consequences of past risk exposures and model geopolitical risks using various assumptions about frequency, severity and exposure maps to learn how to effectively map for the future and build geopolitical risk management skills.
The course closes with two recent geopolitical cases studies for participants to interact with real-life situations and understand how to better prepare for future geopolitical scenarios.
Learning objectives
- Manage geopolitical risks on the banking and trading books
- Identify geopolitical risk exposures and their impacts
- Map the consequences of geopolitical risk exposures
- Distinguish between pessimistic and optimistic scenarios using real-world geopolitical risk narratives
- Evaluate past geopolitical scenarios and the associated risks
Who should attend
Relevant departments may include but are not limited to:
- Operational risk
- Risk appetite and culture
- Internal audit
- Compliance
- Governance
- Strategy and transactions
- Board of directors
- Business development management
- Human resources
- Market risk
Pre-reading materials
The Risk.net resources below have been selected to enhance your learning experience:
- Fog of war: the struggle to manage geopolitical risk - Read article | Risk.net
- Geopolitical risk models not ‘rigorous’ enough, says quant - Read article | Risk.net
- No link between geopolitical risk signals and returns – hedge fund - Read article | Risk.net
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