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This year RMI organized several training programs, most of them were adapted to be conducted virtually via Zoom. In January and May 2020 RMI welcomed its two annual cohorts for its Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) Certification Training Program. This program helps prepare professionals from the financial industry for the rigorous examinations to obtain the FRM® certification. RMI has successfully conducted this Program bi-annually since 2013 and prepared over 250 participants for the examination that takes place twice a year in May and November. The certification is globally recognized and administered by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).
RMI also conducted two cohorts of the IBF Standards Certificate in Operational Risk Management Level 1 for banking professionals in Singapore in May and November 2020. Inherent in all banking products, activities, processes, and systems, operational risk is a fundamental element of a bank’s risk management programme. This course features a highly focused and specialized curriculum, teaching materials and coursework developed around the IBF Standards which is cutting-edge, forward looking and developed by the financial industry and benchmarked against the best standards and practices in the world. The IBF Standards consists of four Competency Units (CU) – Governance, Analytics, Technology and Functional with the different learning objectives.
From 11 August to 5 October 2020, RMI conducted one of its specialized certification programs, the NUS RMI Specialist Diploma in Credit Risk Management (CRM) – Corporate Banking. The program comprises of three modules and is designed to enable credit practitioners to review real market situations and to bring credit professionals’ analysis skills to an advanced level. Topics covered under the program include CRM objectives, strategies and framework, credit risk policies and procedures, credit risk mitigation, credit risk controls, tools and processes, structure and governance framework, best practices in CRM, among others.
Finally, RMI organized the NUS RMI-ACTS Workshop in Foreign Exchange & Liquidity Risks Management in APAC. This course presents an outline of the daily life of the Corporate Treasurer, including the typical roles and responsibilities. The course shared some typical workflow and operational activities in a Corporate Treasurer’s daily work. i.e FX exposures, cashflow forecasts as well as liquidity reports, which are one of the main reports that Treasurers look at and monitor.
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