Loan & Transaction Structuring Masterclass

Course Info

Date: Sep-08-2025

Length: 2 Weeks

City: Istanbul

Fees: 7,800

Type: In Classroom

Available Dates

  • Mar-10-2025

    Istanbul

  • June-09-2025

    Istanbul

  • Sep-08-2025

    Istanbul

  • Dec-08-2025

    Istanbul

Dates in Other Venues

  • Dec-23-2024

    Barcelona

  • Dec-23-2024

    Amsterdam

  • Dec-30-2024

    Dubai

  • Dec-30-2024

    London

  • Feb-10-2025

    London

  • Feb-10-2025

    Dubai

  • Mar-10-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Mar-10-2025

    Paris

  • Mar-10-2025

    Barcelona

  • Mar-10-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Mar-10-2025

    Singapore

  • Apr-28-2025

    London

  • Apr-28-2025

    Dubai

  • June-09-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • June-09-2025

    Barcelona

  • June-09-2025

    Singapore

  • June-09-2025

    Amsterdam

  • June-09-2025

    Paris

  • June-23-2025

    London

  • June-23-2025

    Dubai

  • Aug-11-2025

    London

  • Aug-11-2025

    Dubai

  • Sep-08-2025

    Paris

  • Sep-08-2025

    Amsterdam

  • Sep-08-2025

    Barcelona

  • Sep-08-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Sep-08-2025

    Singapore

  • Oct-06-2025

    London

  • Oct-06-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-01-2025

    London

  • Dec-01-2025

    Dubai

  • Dec-08-2025

    Barcelona

  • Dec-08-2025

    Singapore

  • Dec-08-2025

    Paris

  • Dec-08-2025

    Kuala Lumpur

  • Dec-08-2025

    Amsterdam

Course Details

Course Outline

10 days course

 

Introduction To Credit Risk
 
  • What is credit risk?
  • The different types of credit risk
  • Sovereign
  • Corporate
  • Retail
  • Systemic
  • Counterparty
  • The current lending environment
  • Risk appetite statements and their impact on lending strategy
  • How do we assess, measure, manage and mitigate credit risk
  • The three methods of calculating credit risk, standardised, foundation and advanced IRB
  • The revised standardised approach
  • The impact of IFRS 9

 

  Lending Refresher  – overview
 
  • Definitions & basic lending principles
  • Lending policies, lending strategies, lending systems
  • Data/information collection
  • Approvals, security, drawdowns
  • Management & monitoring systems
 
 

 

The Credit Risk of Specific Financial products
 
  • Loans and overdrafts
  • Term loans
  • Project finance
  • Construction finance
  • Private-public partnerships
  • Government and corporate bonds
  • Equity and mezzanine debt
  • Credit derivatives
  • Counterparty exposure
  • Off-balance sheet commitments
  • Trade finance
  • Mortgages
  • Credit cards
 

 

 
The Working Capital Cycle
 
  • Definition
  • Understanding the mechanics
  • Seasonal or non-recurring cycles
  • The role of bank finance
  • The role of the overdraft
  • Understanding break-even analysis
  • Understanding bankers cash flows
  • How to lend in support of the cycle
  • When an overdraft becomes a medium-term loan
  • Managing multiple cycles
 
The Basic Principles of Lending
 
  • Appraisal techniques
  • Credit assessment
  • Business clients
  • Corporate Clients
  • Private Wealth Clients
  • Trade Finance
  • Group credit appraisal
  • Development finance
  • Project finance
 
Establishing the borrower's actual needs
 
  • What do budgets and cash flows actually measure
  • Short, medium and long term funding needs
  • Short medium and long term lending products
  • SWOT analysis
  • Basic principles
  • Data collection, refining and perfection
  • Evaluation – backtesting
  • Selecting the appropriate lending mix in practice
  • What goes wrong
 
Introduction to Credit Risk Strategy
 
  • Measuring credit risk in structured loans
  • Portfolio theory and correlation concepts
  • Contagion risks
  • Liquidity assumptions
  • The importance of time
 
The different lending maturities
 
  • Short term finance
  • Medium-term finance
  • Long term finance
  • Working capital finance
  • Trade finance
  • Project finance
  • The risks
  • Best practice
  • What goes wrong

 

 Understanding cash flows
 
  • Definitions
  • Bankers cash flow
  • What do we use them for
  • The Rule of 72
  • Discounted cash flow, NPV & PDV
  • Are medium-term cash flows useful tools
  • What are the pitfalls
  • Where does it go wrong
  • Stress testing and scenario analysis

 

Introduction to Lending structures
 
  • What facilities does the client need
  • What are we prepared to lend
  • Is this enough
  • Matching lending to cash flow
  • Matching lending to use of funds
  • Lending cycles
  • Economic cycles
  • Management and monitoring systems
  • Cash flow monitoring
  • Recovery management

 

 Bank security
 
  • Why do banks take security
  • Does it achieve recovery by itself
  • We do lend unsecured
  • Security does not improve the underlying deal
  • Why take it then
  • Safety net
  • Risk transfer
  • The importance of guarantees
  • Type of security
  • Completion and perfection of security
  • Independent and direct bank control
  • Monitoring security post lending drawdown
  • Best practice
  • What goes wrong

 

Loan Documentation
 
  • What do we need
  • Best practice
  • The minimum
  • The ideal
  • Covenants
  • Undertakings
  • Key clauses
  • Managing the loan
  • Regular scrutiny
  • Report processes
  • What goes wrong

 

Following Our Money
 
  • Why is this necessary
  • How do we do it
  • The role of the CRM
  • The role of Credit & Risk Management
  • Systems, Processes
  • Best practice
  • What goes wrong

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