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Financial Risk Management and Market Analysis

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
2 weeks to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Analyze financial risks using VaR, probability, and statistical techniques.

  • Apply quantitative tools to derivatives, fixed income, and risk management.

  • Interpret FRM Level 1 concepts and solve exam-oriented risk management problems.

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May 2026

Assessments

40 assignments

Taught in English

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This course is part of the Risk Management and Quant Finance Specialization
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There are 10 modules in this course

Master FRM Level 1 concepts and build practical financial risk management skills used in banking, investment, and quantitative finance. Learn how to analyze risk, evaluate derivatives, interpret futures markets, and apply quantitative tools with confidence.

This course provides a structured and practical introduction to Financial Risk Management (FRM) concepts, helping learners understand the frameworks and analytical methods used by risk professionals in global financial institutions. You’ll begin by exploring the foundations of risk management, including Value at Risk (VaR), enterprise risk management, and the different types of financial risks such as credit, liquidity, operational, and strategic risk. As the course progresses, you’ll build quantitative finance skills through probability, statistics, covariance, correlation, and financial distribution analysis. The course also introduces derivatives markets, including forwards, futures, and options, while explaining how these instruments are used for hedging, speculation, and arbitrage strategies. Advanced modules focus on futures market mechanics, basis risk, interest rate analysis, bond pricing, yield curves, and forward market pricing. You’ll also learn advanced market concepts such as contango and backwardation and understand how these conditions influence futures pricing and trading strategies. What makes this course unique is its clear, exam-focused approach that simplifies complex FRM Level 1 topics while connecting theory to real-world financial market applications. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to confidently interpret financial risks, apply quantitative analysis tools, and evaluate derivatives and market conditions relevant to modern risk management and finance careers.

Understand core risk concepts, measurement techniques, and structured risk management processes used in financial institutions.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 82 minutes
  • Introduction to Foundations of Risk Managementβ€’6 minutes
  • What is Riskβ€’8 minutes
  • Tools and Procedure to Measureβ€’10 minutes
  • Marginal Distribution on Deviationβ€’9 minutes
  • Objective of Risk Managementβ€’9 minutes
  • Risk Management Helicopter Viewβ€’10 minutes
  • Describe Risk Management Processβ€’7 minutes
  • Identify Problems of RM Processβ€’13 minutes
  • Identify Problems of RM Process Continuesβ€’10 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Understanding Risk and Measurement Basicsβ€’10 minutes
  • Statistical Foundations of Riskβ€’10 minutes
  • Risk Management Process Deep Diveβ€’10 minutes
  • Foundations of Risk Managementβ€’30 minutes

Learn quantitative risk tools like VaR and explore enterprise-wide risk management frameworks.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 73 minutes
  • Quantitative Measures VaRβ€’10 minutes
  • Illustration of VaRβ€’13 minutes
  • Stress Testingβ€’6 minutes
  • Enterprise Risk Managementβ€’10 minutes
  • Unexpected Lossesβ€’7 minutes
  • Risk Reward Trade offβ€’8 minutes
  • Risk Reward Trade off Continuesβ€’7 minutes
  • Government Bond and Corporate Bond Yieldβ€’5 minutes
  • Examining Risk and Reward Relationshipβ€’7 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Quantitative Risk Measuresβ€’10 minutes
  • Enterprise Risk Perspectiveβ€’10 minutes
  • Risk vs Return in Financial Marketsβ€’10 minutes
  • Measuring Risk and Enterprise Risk Managementβ€’30 minutes

Analyze types of risks including credit, bankruptcy, and settlement risks with mitigation strategies.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 69 minutes
  • Classes of Riskβ€’12 minutes
  • Classes of Risk Continuesβ€’11 minutes
  • Credit Riskβ€’10 minutes
  • Bankruptcy Riskβ€’7 minutes
  • Downgrade Riskβ€’8 minutes
  • Downgrade Risk Continuesβ€’5 minutes
  • Settlement Riskβ€’7 minutes
  • Steps to Mitigate Credit Riskβ€’2 minutes
  • Diversificationβ€’6 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Classification of Risksβ€’10 minutes
  • Credit Risk and Its Dimensionsβ€’10 minutes
  • Managing Credit and Settlement Risksβ€’10 minutes
  • Types and Classes of Riskβ€’30 minutes

Evaluate operational failures, liquidity challenges, and strategic risks affecting business performance.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 73 minutes
  • Liquidity Riskβ€’8 minutes
  • Sub Types of Operational Riskβ€’4 minutes
  • Business Riskβ€’10 minutes
  • Reputation Riskβ€’8 minutes
  • Value At Riskβ€’11 minutes
  • Calculation of Varβ€’9 minutes
  • RMH - Questions and Answersβ€’12 minutes
  • Strategic Riskβ€’9 minutes
  • Introduction Quantitative Analysis Probabilitiesβ€’2 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Liquidity and Operational Risk Overviewβ€’10 minutes
  • Reputational and Strategic Risk Insightsβ€’10 minutes
  • Risk Review and Strategic Risksβ€’10 minutes
  • Operational, Liquidity, and Strategic Risksβ€’30 minutes

Apply probability concepts and statistical tools for financial risk analysis and decision-making.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 45 minutes
  • Discrete Probabilityβ€’5 minutes
  • Independent Eventsβ€’5 minutes
  • Exampleβ€’4 minutes
  • Summaryβ€’3 minutes
  • Introduction to Quantitative Analysisβ€’3 minutes
  • Meanβ€’12 minutes
  • Geometric Mean Exampleβ€’2 minutes
  • Expected Valueβ€’3 minutes
  • Expected Value Propertiesβ€’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Basics of Probability Theoryβ€’10 minutes
  • Probability Applications and Summaryβ€’10 minutes
  • Advanced Statistical Measuresβ€’10 minutes
  • Probability and Quantitative Foundationsβ€’30 minutes

Understand covariance, correlation, and higher moments for analyzing financial data distributions.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 71 minutes
  • Covariance Explainedβ€’5 minutes
  • Correlationβ€’9 minutes
  • Moments and Central Momentsβ€’4 minutes
  • Kurtosis Coskewness and Cokurtosisβ€’8 minutes
  • Introduction to Financial Markets and Productsβ€’11 minutes
  • Derivative Marketsβ€’7 minutes
  • Forward Contractβ€’9 minutes
  • Futures and Optionsβ€’11 minutes
  • Futures and Options Continuesβ€’6 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Covariance and Correlationβ€’10 minutes
  • Higher-Order Statistical Conceptsβ€’10 minutes
  • Introduction to Derivativesβ€’10 minutes
  • Statistical Relationships and Momentsβ€’30 minutes

Explore forwards, futures, options, and their applications in hedging, speculation, and arbitrage.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 52 minutes
  • Payoff From Option and Forwardβ€’5 minutes
  • Hedgingβ€’3 minutes
  • Hedging Using Forwardsβ€’8 minutes
  • Hedging Using Optionsβ€’5 minutes
  • Speculationβ€’9 minutes
  • Arbitrageβ€’2 minutes
  • Futures marketβ€’7 minutes
  • Marginβ€’6 minutes
  • Understanding Clearinghouseβ€’7 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Payoffs and Hedging Conceptsβ€’10 minutes
  • Options and Market Strategiesβ€’10 minutes
  • Futures Market Mechanicsβ€’10 minutes
  • Derivatives and Risk Management Strategiesβ€’30 minutes

Learn advanced hedging techniques, basis risk, and futures market mechanics.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Regulatory Frameworkβ€’6 minutes
  • Hedging Strategies Using Futuresβ€’8 minutes
  • Basis Riskβ€’6 minutes
  • Sources of Basis Riskβ€’8 minutes
  • Hedging with Stocks Index Futuresβ€’4 minutes
  • Tailing the Hedgeβ€’7 minutes
  • Rolling Hedge Forwardβ€’5 minutes
  • Working on Exampleβ€’8 minutes
  • Interest Ratesβ€’8 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Regulatory and Hedging Frameworksβ€’10 minutes
  • Managing Basis Riskβ€’10 minutes
  • Advanced Hedging Techniquesβ€’10 minutes
  • Futures, Hedging, and Market Risksβ€’30 minutes

Analyze interest rates, yield curves, duration, and bond pricing concepts.

What's included

9 videos4 assignments

9 videosβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Compundingβ€’6 minutes
  • Compunding Continuesβ€’4 minutes
  • Spot Ratesβ€’7 minutes
  • Bootstrappingβ€’6 minutes
  • Forward Rateβ€’9 minutes
  • Durationβ€’11 minutes
  • Concept of Durationβ€’7 minutes
  • Modified Duration and Convexityβ€’6 minutes
  • Theories of Term Structureβ€’5 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Interest Rate Basicsβ€’10 minutes
  • Yield Curve and Forward Ratesβ€’10 minutes
  • Duration and Term Structure Theoriesβ€’10 minutes
  • Interest Rate Fundamentals and Term Structureβ€’30 minutes

Understand forward pricing, asset valuation, and advanced market concepts like contango and backwardation.

What's included

10 videos4 assignments

10 videosβ€’Total 70 minutes
  • Investment and Consumption Assetsβ€’6 minutes
  • Forward Price for an Investment Assetβ€’12 minutes
  • Valuing forward Contractsβ€’3 minutes
  • Forward Pricing and Known Incomeβ€’11 minutes
  • Short Sellingβ€’7 minutes
  • Currency and Commodity Futuresβ€’10 minutes
  • Currency and Commodity Featuresβ€’6 minutes
  • Delivery Optionsβ€’7 minutes
  • Contango and Backwardationβ€’3 minutes
  • Example of Investment Assetsβ€’5 minutes
4 assignmentsβ€’Total 60 minutes
  • Investment Assets and Pricingβ€’10 minutes
  • Futures and Market Practicesβ€’10 minutes
  • Advanced Market Conceptsβ€’10 minutes
  • Asset Pricing and Forward Marketsβ€’30 minutes

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