Agenda

Agenda

Agenda

09:0009:30

Coffee and Registration

09:00 - 09:30

09:3011:00

Session 1: Network analytics – the state of the art

09:30 - 11:00

  • Introduction to network theory and overview of the training course
  • Applications of network theory in finance and beyond: risk exposure diagnostics, market correlation detection, payment analytics, FMI design and oversight
  • Introduction to regtech and suptech
  • Presentation and demonstration of FNA’s software featuring a real time graph analytics engine and advanced configurable dashboard for visual investigation of complex data

11:0011:30

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30

11:3013:00

Session 2: Exposure networks and stress testing

11:30 - 13:00

  • Focus on practical application of network analytics in measuring, mapping and modelling of financial exposures
  • Network analysis of trade repository data and identification of systemically important financial institutions
  • Global interconnectedness of FMIs
  • Understanding complex instruments that may hide substantial risks - as highlighted by the agent-based models in the Financial Crisis
  • Hands-on use of interactive dashboards in relation to case studies of e.g. CBMX index, Bank for International Settlements country risk exposure
  • Hands on creation and analysis of exposure networks from BIS data.

13:0014:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

04:0015:30

Session 3: Correlation maps – a systemic view of financial markets

14:00 - 15:30

  • Presentation of advanced correlation maps visualizing interconnectivity of markets
  • Focus on value at risk analytics and outlier detection
  • Development of early warning signals through monitoring of interconnected market dynamics and visual
  • Statistical identification of hidden patterns in complex data
  • Hands on use of dashboards for case studies of eg. US housing bubble and crisis, US presidential election and the EU debt crisis

15:3016:00

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

16:0017:00

Session 4: Stress testing correlation networks

16:00 - 17:00

  • Focus on financial markets as a complex system with numerous measurable interdependencies.
  • Production of 'what if' scenarios to predict movements of markets under stress.
  • Stress testing correlation structures.
  • Hands on use of interactive dashboards in relation to case studies of eg. Brexit referendum and US presidential election
  • Hands on creation and analysis of correlation networks from market data.

09:0009:30

Coffee and Registration

09:00 - 09:30

09:3011:00

Session 5: Using network simulations to design FMIs

09:30 - 11:00

  • Modelling FMIs as complex systems with agent based modelling
  • Measuring liquidity efficiency
  • Developing new liquidity-saving mechanisms
  • Hands on use of interactive dashboards in relation to case studies of eg. CLS, LVTS, CHAPS

11:0011:30

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30

11:3013:00

Session 6: Monitoring and stress yesting FMIs and their members for liquidity, solvency and systemic risk

11:30 - 13:00

  • Using payment data to measure liquidity and solvency of financial institutions
  • Real-time monitoring and outlier detection
  • Developing stress scenarios (participant failure, operational issues, etc.)
  • Using agent based simulations to evaluate different stress scenarios
  • Running simulations
  • Hands on creation and analysis of transaction networks, eg from trade repository or payments data

13:0014:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

14:0015:30

Session 7: Diagnostic analytics: detection and investigation of financial crime and cyber attacks

14:00 - 15:30

  • Improving fraud detection and AML with network theory
  • "Following the money" and automating the manual investigation of financial crime
  • Identification of DDoS attack patterns through real time detection of anomalies in cyber networks
  • Cyber attacks and technological and infrastructure interdependencies
  • Hands on use of interactive dashboards in relation to case studies
  • Hands on creation and analysis of related party networks

15:3016:00

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

16:0017:00

Session 8: Course conclusion: next steps for network analytics

16:00 - 17:00

  • Where regulators are (and will be) using network theory – and requiring it
  • Review of key takeaways from earlier sessions
  • “Tomorrow’s” themes, trends and opportunities