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Professor Moorad Choudhry’s online program Market, Credit & Operational Risk Management at Amsterdam Institute of Finance will teach participants to manage three critical areas of banking risk.  Professor Moorad Choudhry says while credit risk, market risk, and operational risk are “three different beasts”, senior managers within banks need to have a grip on all three, not to mention liquidity risk as well.  His banking risk course, aptly titled Market, Credit & Operational Risk Management, will…

Professor Cyril Demaria’s Private Equity program at the AIF will expose participants to core concepts of private equity and enable them to engage in this ever-shifting investment environment, with a special focus on the European market.  Professor Cyril Demaria originally set out to study a business degree, but his studies were interrupted by his mandatory military service, which was spent working…

Professor Moorad Choudhry’s program Bank Asset-Liability Management (ALM) at Amsterdam Institute of Finance will empower participants with a practical understanding of ALM and the ability to develop a framework to implement this discipline within the banks in which they operate. Professor Moorad Choudhry says that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, he’s suggesting banks…

How much is a share worth? This is one of the things Professor Jim Wahlen teaches during his online course Advanced Financial Statement Analysis at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF). The title doesn’t immediately suggest a thriller, but the questions the training tries to answer do: can you use the accounting information to make smart financial decisions? Can you evaluate the quality of…

The structure and content of courses for finance professionals are changing, thanks to the corona crisis which is accelerating a dormant trend. The corona crisis has left a significant mark on training finance professionals. While courses were sometimes still given in physical classrooms last year, they are banned to the screen in 2021. This has…

Discover more about Professor Luisa Alemany in this interesting interview, published by London Business School. Read here about the fascinating journey Luisa has made to get where she is now.  At AIF, Luisa teaches the Mergers and Acquisitions and Entrepreneurial Finance programs. 

You cannot create value for shareholders if you don’t know what affects or is driving value, says the AIF lecturer.  Matti Suominen’s career in equity trading began when he became an equity investor, quite unexpectedly, at just 16 years old. “I inherited some stocks, not a lot, just a small amount. I knew nothing about…

Is there a glimmer of hope in the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression? We are in the middle of the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression – but does Covid-19 bring us only misery or is there a glimmer of hope? We asked a true optimist Peter De Keyzer. In 2013 you…

Operational risk is a growing concern for many firms, says risk management expert Russell Walker. There are simply more areas where things can go awry, often with potentially devastating consequences for institutions, than ever before.  Operational risk refers to risk of losses that are not related to investment decisions, but rather to problems or failures…

We are sad to announce the death of AIF Supervisory Board Member Alex van Groningen. Alex was the Founder and Director of Alex van Groningen BV and served on our Board since 2019.  Alex started the training company that carries his name in 1994 and built a large network of (finance) professionals over the years. Besides…