Fundamental Review of the Trading Book: Impact and Implementation by Thomas Obitz

Fundamental Review of the Trading Book: Impact and Implementation (coming soon)

Duration:
📅 Self-Paced: 12+ lecture hours

Format:
💻 Online

📆 Time Commitment:
Recorded lectures accessible any time. 

🕛 Self-paced Online:
Students will have the opportunity to apply what they learn in hands-on projects throughout the course.

💳  Cost: £395.00


Summary:

  • Recognise where your company is on its FRTB implementation journey 
  • Manage the impact of FRTB on the capital floor 
  • Identify key components for capital frameworks and drivers for using the IMA versus the SA
  • Understand the relationship between FRTB and International Financial Reporting Standard 9 – known as IFRS 9 – on the banking and trading books 
  • Develop skills to identify and manage implementation pitfalls 

Modules:

  • Progress of regulatory implementation of the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) in the context of Basel III
  • The impact of FRTB on capital requirements and business models
  • The capital framework and the revised standardised approach (SA)
  • The FRTB credit valuation adjustment (CVA) framework 
  • The revised IMA
  • Understanding and managing non-modellable risk factors (NMRFs)
  • Profit and loss (P&L) attribution tests, desk strategies and capital dynamics
  • Model risk management under FRTB
  • The trading book/banking book boundary and its impact on business models
  • Making FRTB work: target operating model and a system impact and implementation approach

About the programme 

Explore the impact and implementation of FRTB within financial institutions from the perspectives of model risk management, capital requirements and data management. 

Dedicated sessions will explore key components and considerations of the SA and the sensitivities-based approach, emerging risk factors from the interbank offered rates transition impact, and the IMA and the trading book/ banking book boundary under FRTB, and will support delegates in applying FRTB principles at their own institutions.

Led by FRTB subject matter expert Thomas Obitz.