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  1. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.13 Calculating Adjusted RAROC, Modeling Diversification, and Implementing Capital Allocation

    Learning Objectives: Compute the adjusted RAROC for a project to determine its viability. Explain challenges in modeling diversification benefits, including aggregating a firm’s risk capital and allocating economic capital to different business lines. Explain best practices in implementing an...
  2. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.12 RAROC Calculations, Challenges, and Strategic Applications

    Learning Objectives: Compute and interpret the RAROC for a project, loan, or loan portfolio, and use RAROC to compare business unit performance. Explain challenges that arise when using RAROC for performance measurement, including choosing a time horizon, measuring default probability, and...
  3. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.11 Types of Capital Requirements and RAROC

    Learning Objectives: Define, compare and contrast risk capital, economic capital and regulatory capital, and explain methods and motivations for using economic capital approaches to allocate risk capital. Describe the RAROC (risk-adjusted return on capital) methodology and its use in capital...
  4. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.10 Evolution of risk capital measures.

    Learning Objectives: Explain the calculation of risk-weighted assets and the capital requirement per the original Basel I guidelines. Describe measures introduced in the 1995 & 1996 amendments, including guidelines for netting of credit exposures & methods to calculate market risk capital for...
  5. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.9 Economic Capital for Strategic Decision-Making

    Learning Objectives: Explain the benefits and impacts of using an economic capital framework within the following areas: Credit portfolio management, Risk-based pricing, Customer profitability analysis, and Management incentives. Questions: 24.9.1. Alpha Bank is analyzing the risk and return...
  6. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.8 Effective Use and Governance of Economic Capital Frameworks

    Learning Objectives: Describe the BIS recommendations that supervisors should consider to make effective use of internal risk measures, such as economic capital, that are not designed for regulatory purposes. Describe best practices and assess key concerns for the governance of an economic...
  7. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.7. Key Challenges in Economic Capital Implementation

    Learning Objectives: Within the economic capital implementation framework, describe the challenges that appear in: Defining and calculating risk measures, Risk aggregation, Validation of models, Dependency modeling in credit risk, Evaluating counterparty credit risk, and Assessing interest rate...
  8. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT 2024 Part 2 New and Updated Published Materials

    Credit Risk Measurement & Management CR-8: Aswath Damodaran, Country Risk: Determinants, Measures, and Implications New Learning Spreadsheet published 09/17/24 Operational & Integrated Risk Management ORR-4 Chapter 4: Risk Measurement and Assessment New practice questions published in the...
  9. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.6. Cyber Security Risks and Insights From the Equifax Breach

    Learning Objectives: Provide examples of cyber threats and information security risks and describe frameworks and best practices for managing cyber risks. Describe lessons learned from the Equifax case study. Questions: 24.6.1. Minance Exchange, a cryptocurrency trading SaaS firm, has...
  10. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.5 Risk Governance and Stress Testing

    Learning Objectives: Describe the role of risk governance, risk appetite, and risk culture in the context of an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework. Summarize the role of Basel regulatory capital and the process of determining internal economic capital. Describe elements of a...
  11. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.4. Managing Operational Risk Capital and Operational Resilience

    Learning Objectives: Estimate operational risk exposures based on the fault tree model given probability assumptions. Describe approaches used to determine the level of operational risk capital for economic capital purposes, including their application and limitations. Describe and explain the...
  12. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.3. Op Risk Assessment Tools, Key Indicators, and Factor-Based Models

    Learning Objectives: Explain operational risk-assessment processes and tools, including risk control self-assessments (RCSAs), likelihood assessment scales, and heatmaps. Describe the differences among key risk indicators (KRIs), key performance indicators (KPIs), and key control indicators...
  13. Nicole Seaman

    P2.T7.24.2 Managing Financial Fraud and Money Laundering Risks

    Learning Objectives: Describe elements of a control framework to manage financial fraud risk and money laundering risk. Summarize the regulatory findings and describe the lessons learned from the USAA case study. Questions: 24.2.1. HSBS Bank Plc has implemented a data analytics system that...
  14. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT 2024 Part 1 New and Updated Published Materials

    Financial Markets & Products FMP-1 Chapter 1: Banks Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/13/24 FMP-2 Chapter 2: Insurance Companies and Pension Plans Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/13/24 FMP-3 Chapter 3: Fund Management Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/13/24 FMP-5...
  15. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT 2024 Part 1 New and Updated Published Materials

    Quantitative Analysis QA-1 Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Probability Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/12/24 QA-2 Chapter 2: Random Variables Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/12/24 QA-3 Chapter 3: Common Univariate Random Variables Updated Learning Spreadsheet published...
  16. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT 2024 Part 1 New and Updated Published Materials

    Valuation & Risk Models QA-14 Chapter 14 Machine Learning Methods New Learning Spreadsheet published 09/10/24 QA-15 Chapter 15 Machine Learning and Prediction New Learning Spreadsheet published 09/10/24
  17. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Publishing Process for 2024

    Hello @NStot3013 I've moved your post to this publishing process thread and copied information from our original post below for reference. If you do not see a specific document in the study planner, it means it is not published yet. We are currently in the process of preparing all of the...
  18. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: Publishing Process for 2024

    @David Meehan I've moved your post to this publishing process thread and copied information from our original post below. Although we do not publish videos for every chapter in the curriculum, we are continuing to publish instructional videos in order of priority. We cannot guarantee that those...
  19. Nicole Seaman

    IMPORTANT 2024 Part 1 New and Updated Published Materials

    Quantitative Analysis QA-13 Chapter 13: Simulation and Bootstrapping Updated Learning Spreadsheet published 09/10/24 Valuation & Risk Models VRM-14: Chapter 14. Binomial Trees New Learning Spreadsheet published 09/10/24
  20. Nicole Seaman

    Survey FRM Exam Results - All Exam Dates

    GARP posted this on their website. They've combined the May and August exams to determine the overall pass rate.
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