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Financial Engineering in Corporate Finance

LENGTH 

3 to 5 days, depending upon content and objectives 

SUBJECT FOCUS/CONTENT

 The central theme of this workshop is that financial engineering and innovation are driven by a common set of factors, including tax, accounting, regulation, incomplete or segmented markets, and other institutional/market frictions. This workshop reviews new financial engineering techniques used around the world that respond to these drivers, including: 

·      Creative use of futures, forwards, swaps, and options in combination with capital markets products in order to solve unusual client problems

·      Innovative debt and equity structures, hybrid securities, and securities with embedded derivatives, including tax-deductible preferred, money-market preferred, PERCS and convertible instruments

·     Review of the latest developments in asset-backed securities and linkages to derivatives securities.

·     Structured use of credit derivatives in corporate finance applications

·     Tax, accounting, and regulatory driven capital markets and derivatives solutions

·     Advanced derivatives concepts and capital markets applications –  how the funding and risk management markets are coming together

·     State-of-the art second generation and exotic derivatives products, including compound options, barrier options, outperformance options, extendible/cancelable swaps, and structured caps and floors

·     Non-standard and evolving derivative products in illiquid markets; introduction to inflation derivatives, insurance derivatives, sovereign risk derivatives and credit derivatives

·     A framework for analyzing and reverse engineering financial innovation developed by the competition or in other capital markets

·     Opportunities for financial innovation in various parts of the world: what the issuers need and what the investors prefer.

TARGET AUDIENCE 

·         Experienced investment bankers and relationship managers

·         Marketing officers and product managers from capital markets, treasury, risk management, and corporate finance departments

·        Traders and other treasury personnel interested in client applications for financial engineering products 

PARTICIPANT OBJECTIVES 

This program is intended to enhance the analytical, structuring, and marketing skills of participants.  By the end of this program, participants will be able to: 

·         Review the latest financial engineering technology from markets around the world in order to assess which ideas have potential applications in their region

·         Apply derivative concepts and capital markets products in creative ways to help clients reduce taxes, leverage regulations, improve accounting treatment, and segment and arbitrage markets

·         Identify key success factors in heavily-structured financial instruments and enhance their ability to estimate the demand for a new product idea early in the development stage

·         Create innovative debt and equity structures, hybrid securities, structured notes and securities with embedded derivatives to accomplish the objectives of securities issuers and investors

 METHODOLOGY

Lectures, presentations, discussions, and case studies.

Participants will be asked to identify potential product opportunities in their local marketplace, based on an accounting, tax, regulatory, or other difficulties or impediments, in advance of attending the course, and will be asked to make presentations during the session to develop a potential product solution.

 

 

 

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