Overview Choosing a CCP: Strategic, Credit and Operational considerations is a two part module looking at the criteria involved in selecting a CCP to work with. The first part is the strategic discussion around the most important considerations involved (eg: one CCP to optimise netting benefits or multiple [...]
Overview Operations management is an area of business concerned with the production of goods and services and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient – in terms of using as little resource as possible – and effective in terms of meeting customer requirements. It is [...]
Overview The concept and practices of Corporate Social Responsibility have evolved in the last two decades at an increasing pace. Shaped by the public pressure and the exigencies of the industry, the CSR/ Sustainability programs became more and more focused on social engagement and consistency in corporate response. [...]
Overview The Internal audit function is increasingly regarded as a business partner, a catalyst for change and a Governance advisor. You therefore need your internal audit function to adopt world class techniques and become a trusted advisor and internal consultant. This is particularly true in the Middle East [...]
Overview Global lockdown has caught most companies and most Assistants highly unprepared for remote work. How can Assistants make their role indispensable and their careers bulletproof? Which technology is the best for virtual offices and remote work? How to choose your next learning step with so much material [...]
Some of the Learning Outcomes Learn more about group sequential methods Understand where DMCs are useful/not useful Take a closer look on how do DMC meetings run Understand legal position/indemnity CHMP, FDA (and other) guidance documents Stopping ‘rules’, including Haybittle and Peto, Pocock, O’Brien and Fleming, alpha-spending approaches, [...]
Overview The ultimate aim of all businesses is to achieve their overall Strategic Goals. However, it is widely accepted that around 70% of organisations fail to achieve their Goals – in other words, they fail to implement their chosen strategy successfully. There are many underlying reasons: but one [...]
Overview A CFO’s mastery of the financial skill is a given; however, such a skill alone is not enough to become a successful corporate leader in these turbulent and uncertain times. The finance function is a core component of the operational structure. It serves as a guardian of [...]
Overview Climate change is increasingly on the agenda as a material risk, not just for the long-term but as a current issue. Global climate science continues to highlight observable changes in the climate, with increasing evidence of physical effects and accelerating impacts of the effort to transition to [...]
Overview Stress testing has become an important tool for risk management and a key part of the regulatory framework. This course discusses various approaches to generating stress scenarios, simple ‘what-if’ scenarios and simulation techniques through to the use of full structural macroeconomic models of the global economy. It [...]
