Course description

Analyzing Sovereign and Country Risk
This two-day course covers the publicly available credit rating methodologies of our sister company, Moody's Investors Service, for a structured approach to analyzing sovereigns, regional and local governments, and government-related enterprises.
Who should attend?
- Sovereign credit analysts
- Regional and local Government credit analysts
- Commercial credit analysts
- Commercial lenders and loan officers
- Relationship managers
- Fixed-income professionals
- Investors
- Other financial professionals
Training content
Gain core skills in sovereign credit analysis so you can:
- Understand how sovereigns prepare financial statements
- Apply a structured framework to analyze banking institutions in mature and developing markets
- Interpret quantitative and qualitative risk drivers
- Understand country ceilings
- Apply lessons from historical defaults and moratoriums
- Identify political and macroeconomic factors and their part in influencing a credit rating
- Appreciate the drivers of country risk and their impact on corporate credits
- Evaluate external support (such as from the International Monetary Fund, the European Stability Mechanism, and the Chang Mai Initiative)
- Consider modeling applications for sovereign risk
- Determine a final credit assessment of a sovereign
Costs
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