Financial Training Partners

Helping clients take, manage, and profit from credit risk and debt structuring.


Meeting Your Needs

What’s New?

Around the World!

We continue to see strong demand for risk training in the Americas and around the world.  We recently completed a swing through 6 countries in Asia, and are now busy in Canada, and with several continuing education seminars in the U.S.  While the fundamentals of company analysis and debt structuring are the same everywhere, we are careful to cusomize our seminars for the country and client base of the bankers in each class.

Work With Us

Financial Training Partners is seeking talented finance professionals and trainers to work on ad hoc projects.  Strong knowledge of credit, capital markets, or real estate finance is essential, and training experience is a plus.  If you would like to explore possibilities, click the "contact" button (above right).
Credit Training for Experienced Professionals

Our continuing education seminars are for relationship managers, risk managers, capital markets specialists, and portfolio managers at intermediate and advanced levels. Seminars we offer include:

 

Problem Credit Analysis
This seminar is designed for experienced relationship managers and risk managers, not problem loan specialists. It focuses is on identifying, analyzing, and managing problem credits before there is a payment default. It covers how to anticipate problems, evaluate risks, and protect against losses. It also deals with restructuring credit facilities for troubled companies and with monitoring and administering problem credits.


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Scenario Analysis
This seminar focuses on using financial statement projections to test the boundaries of borrower risk in a systematic way. It also deals with using projections to structure financings based on a company’s expected performance. It covers developing realistic assumptions for the key accounts that drive projected cash flows and checking projections for realism, accuracy, and consistency. And it covers using scenarios to set the size, maturities, and financial covenants of revolving credits and term loans.


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Financing Products and Markets
This seminar teaches how corporations finance themselves in the debt and equity markets.  It examines issuer and investor objectives to determine how underwriters choose and structure financing products attractive to both parties.  It also addresses the role of the financial intermediary, including how relationship managers, product specialists, and sales and trading professionals work together to execute a debt or equity financing.


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Credit Documentation
This seminar teaches how to structure and analyze covenants, defaults, and other debt terms and conditions, focusing on the risk management aspects of credit documentation. It makes the connections between company strengths and risks and loan terms. For those with little experience with documentation, the seminar covers basic loan mechanics, and for advanced practitioners it covers more complex topics, such as setting covenant levels and addressing intercreditor risks.


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