MFE1104 — Liquidity Risk Measurement and Management
Course description
Liquidity risk measurement and management is a specialized course for 4th year student majoring in risk management. This course is designed to cover the content of GARP’s FRM (Liquidity and Treasury Risk Measurement and Management-Exam part II). This course will focus on methods to measure and manage liquidity and treasury risk. The broad knowledge points covered in the Liquidity and Treasury Risk Management section include the following: Liquidity risk principles and metrics; Liquidity portfolio management; Cash-flow modeling, liquidity stress testing, and reporting; Contingency funding plan; Funding models; Funds transfer pricing; Balance sheet management; and Asset liquidity. This course consists of 8 chapters.
Course requirements
Requirements for Final Examination
Attendance score must be at least 5 (according to University regulations).
See Appendix 2, Rubric 1 for attendance evaluation.
Requirements for Class Attendance
Students are responsible for attending all classes. In case of absence from school due to force majeure reasons, sufficient and reasonable proofs must be provided. For each absence, 1 point will be deducted 1 point. Students who miss any classes more than 3 times, with or without reason, will be considered as failing to complete the course and have to re-register.
Students will be awarded points for constructive comments these points are added to attendance points and group assignments.
Groups who do not submit the group work will receive a score of 0 (zero). Late submissions will be deducted for each day of late submission.
Requirements for In-class Behaviour
The course is conducted on the principle of respecting learners and lecturers. Any behaviour that affects the teaching and learning process is strictly prohibited.
Students must come to class on time. Students who are late more than 10 minutes after class starts will not be allowed to attend the class. Do not make noise and affect others during the learning process.
Laptops and tablets are only used for the purpose of taking notes for and calculating for lectures and exercises, absolutely forbidden to use for other purposes.
Teaching plan
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Learning resources
- 1. Course Books
- Liquidity and Treasury Risk Measurement and Management, garp.org/frm exam part II, 2025
- 2. References
- Standard lecture notes/slides 2025
- 3. Other resources available at the University Library
- https://www.garp.org/frm/study-materials
- https://www.bis.org/
- Akhtar Siddique and Iftekhar Hasan, Stress Testing: Approaches, Methods and Applications, 2013
- Value at Risk: The New Benchmark for Managing Financial Risk, Third Edition, by Philippe Jorion
- Tiziano Bellini , Stress Testing and Risk Integration in Banks- A Statistical Framework and Practical Software Guide (in Matlab and R), 2017