Title of this virtual session:

"Understanding Credit Risk in Transactions"

Duration: 45 minutes

Speakers: Swiss Re’s Financial Risk Management experts

Description: Financial risks are an increasingly relevant aspect of transactions. Financial Risk Management sign-off requires evaluation across multiple risk categories. Are you familiar with how credit risks are assessed in your deals and how it could impact the economics? Do you know how Credit Risk Management (CRM) is differentiated from other risk functions? This session seeks to answer these questions and provides a view on how risks are accumulated and tracked across the Group.

Objectives: This programme will enable participants to:

• Learn how to identify and assess credit risk
• Understand how certain credit risks are evaluated and mitigated
• Get to know the Credit Risk Management (CRM) team

Learning from others. Exchange. Discuss.

Take this learning to the next level by exchanging with others. Here are recommended social learning activities:

1. Connect with credit risk managers within in your regions to understand typical structures which give rise to credit risk.
2. Consider a rotation into Credit Risk Insurance Group to understand how fundamental credit analysis informs credit risk taking and costing.
3. Reach out to credit risk experts to understand what CRM initiatives contributes to Swiss Re agility.

Practical assignments. Apply. Create value.

What do I get out of it?

What’s in it for me (WIIFM)?

Understand how you contribute to steering the firm’s credit risk taking at the Group level

Create value by applying the findings so far. Implement what you have learned. Recommended on-the-job assignments:

1. Discover how you benefit from credit initiatives and controls
2. Understand how to navigate credit approvals BEFORE you have to!