Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Proposal for a New Course

Course Number & Title: BM602H – Financial Risk Management
L-T-P-C: 4-0-0-4
Course Content / Syllabus:

Financial risks in banking system and insurance sector, Types of risks: market risk, credit risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, leverage, model risk, climate risk; Value-at-Risk (VaR) and conditional VaR; Regulations, basel norms, solvency directives, capital requirements; Market risk, market risk VaR using historical simulation and model-building approach; Credit risk, default probabilities, credit VaR, credit derivatives; Operational risk, loss-severity and loss frequency; Managing risk for bond portfolios, Duration, Convexity.

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