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The Credit Crunch

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Course objectives

This course is designed to provide attendees with the background to the 'Credit Crunch'.

Who should attend?

No prior knowledge is required and the course is structured specifically for people working in human resources, human capital management, recruitment and consultancy.

Course structure

Held in the heart of the City, this half-day course is an interactive, lecture-based programme.

The course includes:

    The background
  • Securitisation - the idea and a simple example
  • Securitisation taken to another level
  • Some acronyms from the world of structured finance and brief explanations - ABS, CDO, CLO, CBO, CDS, CLN, SPV, SIV, SPE etc
  • What went wrong
    The major victims and the impact on hiring
  • Summary of the major victims to date
  • The banks that have suffered serious writedowns
  • The impact on hiring for the front office, middle office, back office on the sell side
  • The impact on the buy side



Half-day course: 09:00 - 12:30

Price: £295.00 + VAT

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“This course really was excellent. Very informative and presented extremely professionally - I would definitely recommend it to others.”
Major Recruitment Consultancy
“A comprehensive overview of the financial markets with a great use of current examples. Extremely worthwhile.”
Niche Search Firm
“The tutor was fantastic, very well structured, useful content & thoroughly enjoyable. A great way to meet people in the industry.”
HR Manager,
International Investment Bank
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