Sovereign Risk: Evaluating Country Risk

The Sovereign Risk: Evaluating Country Risk course is designed to provide the participants with a firm understanding of measuring and managing country risk. It has become one of the most challenging tasks in pragmatic risk management. The very recent stress experiences of Iceland and Greece have underscored the importance and impact of sound Country Risk evaluation. As Governments tend to exercise options of debt arrears triggered by political as much as economic reasons, it is increasingly important to understand how these reasons map into risk factors which can be modelled and applied to deriving internal country ratings. As reliance on agency ratings has proven time and again to be insufficient for the timely management of country exposures, financial institutions are challenged to develop internal country rating models capable of best serving their business purposes.  

Who will benefit?
The following professionals will find this course beneficial: Capital Markets Trading and Sales Professionals, Country Risk managers, Credit Portfolio managers, Bank Analysts, Treasurers, Risk Managers/ Controllers, Legal Department Managers in charge of ISDA Master Netting Agreements and Auditors.

For more information, please contact your representative:

Mark Heaton
Senior Regional Consultant, Europe
The Risk Management Association
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3AX
Tel 44 (0) 1732852225
Mob 44 (0) 7976722851
mheaton@rmahq.org