The FIG Banker includes

Introduction to Bank Analysis

4.3 STARS

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Discover the inner workings of commercial and investment banking with our certified bank analysis course.

Completion time

5.5 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Discover the inner workings of commercial and investment banking with our certified bank analysis course.

Completion time

5.5 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

Module

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Excel Exercises

Intro to Banking

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Excel Exercises3

  • Comparing corporate and investment banking
  • Building a bank’s balance sheet
  • Building a bank’s income statement
  • Calculating return on equity for a bank

Banking - Financial Statement Fundamentals

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Excel Exercises0

  • Deconstructing a bank’s balance sheet
  • Financial instruments classification under US GAAP
  • Cash & cash equivalents definition
  • Repurchase agreements (Repos)
  • Securities borrowed and loans
  • Determining the fair value of financial instruments
  • Other bank balance sheet line items in detail

Banking - Financial Analysis

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Excel Exercises8

  • Building a KPI suite for a real set of bank financial statements
  • Analysing Net Interest Income (NII) & Net Interest Margin (NIM)
  • Reviewing the efficiency ratio
  • Taking a deep dive into Return on Tangible Equity (RoTE)
  • Calculating the Loan-to-Deposit Ratio (LDR)
  • Appraising the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)
  • Constructing an analysis of the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR)
  • Reviewing the Expected Credit Loss coverage ratio
  • Calculating the Common Equity Tier 1 (CET 1) ratio

Expected Credit Losses

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Excel Exercises6

  • Understanding IFRS 9’s expected credit loss model
  • Calculating expected credit loss provisions for preforming loans, underperforming loans and loans with objective evidence of impairment
  • Identifying the accounting transactions required when posting expected credit loss provisions
  • Calculating gross and net interest after accounting for expected credit loss provisions

Bank Regulations

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Video minutes67

Excel Exercises11

  • Key objectives
  • Key tools
  • Recent initiatives
  • Regulatory bodies
  • Historical regulation
  • Basel, MiFid and Dodd-Frank
  • Stress testing

Bank Modeling and Valuation

4.3 STARS

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Make better informed investment decisions for your clients by mastering the relationship between bank performance and valuation.

Completion time

3 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

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Make better informed investment decisions for your clients by mastering the relationship between bank performance and valuation.

Completion time

3 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

Module

Video Minutes

Excel Exercises

Modeling a Simple Bank Model

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Excel Exercises10

  • Forecasting the balance sheet
  • Forecasting net interest income
  • Forecasting the income statement
  • Calculating risk weighted assets
  • Calculating required capital
  • Completing the model
  • Preparing for hand-off

Investment Decisions and Bank Valuation

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Excel Exercises8

  • Explore the relationship between bank performance and valuation
  • Calculate a bank’s market capitalization
  • Explore the relationship between growth, risk and returns

Dividend Discount Valuation

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Excel Exercises2

  • Understanding tier 1 capital assumptions
  • Calculating maximum dividends
  • Calculating terminal value
  • Discounting the dividends
  • Calculating equity value and cross checking with PE and Price to book value multiples
  • Comparing the implied multiple of the terminal value and the overall valuation

Introduction to Insurance Analysis

3.5 STARS

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Discover the main types of insurance business and products, how to understand and interpret company financials, and get to grips with industry regulation.

Completion time

7 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

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Discover the main types of insurance business and products, how to understand and interpret company financials, and get to grips with industry regulation.

Completion time

7 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

Module

Video Minutes

Excel Exercises

Insurance Industry Overview

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Excel Exercises6

  • The key terminology and products used in insurance
  • Calculating insurance revenues, costs and profits
  • A review of the global insurance market and sectors
  • Understanding and calculating life insurance benefits
  • Introducing the concept of reinsurance
  • A review of the main risks in insurance

Insurance Financial Statement Fundamentals

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Excel Exercises10

  • The key principals and methods used in insurance accounting
  • Calculating insurance premiums and reserves for P&C business
  • Understanding the modifications for life insurance accounting and its application for common types of policy
  • Understanding how the insurance balance sheet and income statement are linked
  • Calculating DAC asset and reinsurance reserves
  • Understanding the different classifications and accounting for investments
  • A review of the financial statements of a real insurance company

Insurance Regulations

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Excel Exercises3

  • An overview of the regulatory landscape
  • Detailed explanations of the Solvency II approach
  • Calculating capital requirements and ratios

Life Insurance Analysis

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Video minutes22

Excel Exercises4

  • Understanding profit drivers in life insurance
  • Analyzing profitability and capital
  • A review of new business metrics

P&C Insurance Analysis

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Video minutes87

Excel Exercises9

  • Income statement, with claims and expenses and the combined ratio, and underwriting profit
  • Claims reserves and their payout
  • Unearned premium reserve
  • Deferred acquisition costs (DAC)
  • Incurred but not reported reserve (IBNR)
  • Reinsurance assets
  • Equity capital and solvency

Insurance Modeling and Valuation

3.8 STARS

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Discover how modeling and valuing insurance companies differs substantially from other industries.

Completion time

3 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

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Discover how modeling and valuing insurance companies differs substantially from other industries.

Completion time

3 Hours

Level

Skills Certificate

Module

Video Minutes

Excel Exercises

Life Insurance Model

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Excel Exercises17

  • A comprehensive introduction to the key steps and methods used for valuing life insurance companies
  • The key steps and flow used in building a life insurance model
  • Forecasting key balance sheet line items
  • Dealing with the effects of reinsurance
  • Forecasting life insurance profits
  • Modeling regulatory capital requirements in equity

P&C Insurance Model

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Excel Exercises14

  • Income statement, with claims and expenses and the combined ratio, and underwriting profit
  • Claims reserves and their payout
  • Unearned premium reserve
  • Deferred acquisition costs (DAC)
  • Incurred but not reported reserve (IBNR)
  • Reinsurance assets
  • Equity capital and solvency
  • Discounted dividend model
  • Relative valuation using regression of ROE and P/BV

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CFO with over 25 years experience as an operator, investor and investment banker in technology and financial services.

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