Managing Interest Rate Risk 

MANAGING INTEREST RATE RISK

Course Description:
This course provides participants with tools to measure and manage their bank's interest rate risk

Audience: Managing Interest Rate Risk is a rigorous course designed for individuals involved in asset liability management or line managers making pricing, investment, or funding decisions that impact interest rate risk.

Learning Objectives: After successfully completing this program, you will be able to:

  • Understand the mechanics of valuing cash flows including duration and price sensitivity

  • Identify the determinants of the overall level of interest rates

  • Use static GAP analysis to measure interest rate risk

  • Use duration gap to measure interest rate risk

  • Assess the impact on interest rate risk of various pricing, investment, and funding decisions

  • Use a range of derivatives to manage interest rate risk including futures, forwards, interest rate swaps, caps, floors, and collars

  • Apply all of these concepts to the management of interest rate risk in their own institution

  • Use duration gap to measure interest rate risk

Textbook: Bank Management, 5th Edition, by Timothy W. Koch and S. Scott MacDonald, Thomson Learning 2002 is the required textbook and will be provided to participants.  If you already have a copy of the textbook, you need not request another one.

Credit: AIB:  2.0

Delivery Method: This course is available in the following formats:

  • AIB Online Instructor-led course; Length: 8 weeks
    Price: $695 members; $875 non-members (includes textbook)
    $575 members; $755 non-members (without textbook)
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  • Students who complete this course along with four other requirements, may obtain the Bank Financial Management Diploma.


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