Financial Risk Management

Why This Option?

Banks and other financial firms are clamoring to recruit from the credit-savvy pipeline created by combining the FNRM courses, the RMA Credit Essentials Certificate, and Credit Corps hands-on experience. The reputation of the program is growing quickly and broadly. You can get in on the ground floor now. But equally important are the skills of analysis and an understanding of businesses that will serve you well in any future career as well as in your personal life.

Industry-focused experience + Graduate level expertise = More and better career opportunities

FNRM option allows students to pursue many paths involving financial risks, focusing on banking, valuation, credit analysis, business analytics, credit markets, and a hands-on experiential capstone for those eligible. Any situation where a business has to assess the viability of a counterparty to fulfill its financial obligations will require the skills from the FNRM option. Employers are eager to obtain talent with those skills.

There are two distinguishing aspects of the FNRM option: Credit Risk Analysis and The Credit Corps. Credit Risk Analysis (FIN 3254) prepares students to become certified by the Risk Management Association, the most widely valued and recognized professional certification in credit risk.

The second distinction is the Credit Corps. With the active involvement of our industry partners, the FNRM option culminates in the distinctive and highly valuable opportunity to join the Credit Corps: the student group that manages a $2mm portfolio of loans to real companies.

The FNRM option puts you as a top hiring priority at employers in commercial & investment banking, “direct lending”* (private debt/equity), venture capital, investment portfolio management, and corporate finance.