Risk Management Program

The risk management program was designed to meet the requirements for enhancing the efficiency of professionals in the securities field, aiming to improve the skills and capabilities of those working in the securities sector within the vision of the Financial Regulatory Authority to build professional capacities, establish sound professional work principles, and achieve the highest level of practical and scientific efficiency.

The main objectives of the risk management program in securities companies

The program aims to achieve strategic objectives to help develop the professional performance of the participants, which include:

• Introducing participants to the legal framework and regulations governing risk management activities in securities companies.
• Clarifying the role of the Risk Committee and defining its formation and tasks.
• Defining the concept of risk and its various types.
• Highlighting the importance of risk management in financial institutions in general, especially in securities companies.
• Addressing market risks and their various measurement models with practical applications for each model.
• Clarifying the relationship between market risks and credit risks associated with margin financing.
• Introduction to institutional risks, their types, management stages, and mechanisms for dealing with them.

Target groups in this training program

This program is designed to target the categories working within financial securities companies, namely:

• Account managers and operations executors at broking firms in securities.
• Risk managers in securities broking firms.

The main topics covered by the program

The program includes a large number of topics that cover all aspects of the program, divided over 5 days as follows:

Day One

• Overview of the decisions and regulations governing margin trading risk management in securities companies.
• Risk Committee of Securities Brokerage Firms
• Introduction to Risks
• Stages of Risk Management

second day

• Statistical Introduction
• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential statistics

third day

• Concepts of market risks and methods of measuring them
• Practical applications of calculating Value at Risk (VAR)

Day four

• Buying securities on margin and managing the associated risks.
• Financial solvency and the associated risks.

Last day

• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Total hours of the training program

20 training hours