Counterparty Credit Risk Skills That Stick

The Intuition Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) Academy is a transformative, skills-based learning journey designed to equip professionals with the advanced skills required to manage counterparty credit risk.

Counterparty Credit Risk Skills That Stick

The Credit Risk Academy equips professionals to measure exposures, manage collateral, and communicate risks with clarity and confidence.

Why CCR Skills Matter

Counterparty credit risk is complex and dynamic. Unlike loan credit risk, CCR exposure changes daily with fair market value, volatility, and liquidity.

Regulators demand that Counterparty Risk professionals be competently skilled and experienced to critically assess CCR transactions.

The CCR Capability Framework

The CCR Academy is built around a structured framework that connects learning directly to business outcomes. It develops professionals in three key areas:

Knowledge Mastery

Core concepts of counterparty credit risk, exposure measures such as PFE, EE, EPE, and CVA/xVA, plus detailed product knowledge across repos, swaps, FX, commodities, and equity derivatives.

Analytical Capability

Practical skills in stress testing, scenario analysis, identifying right-way and wrong-way risk, and interpreting exposure results.

Human-Centric Skills

The ability to communicate clearly, challenge effectively, and collaborate across functions to strengthen governance and risk culture.

Program Elements

Our flexible and modular approach is closely aligned with a ‘day in the life’ CCR workflow, building ‘desk-ready’ practical skills while fostering a holistic, cross-functional view of risk.

Customized to the needs of each client, the Intuition CCR Academy delivers personalized, adaptive, and experiential workforce skilling that translates into sustainable business impact.

Core Program

Know your counterparty
Perform due diligence and assess suitability and appropriateness, seeing how client type, sector and strategy shape exposure in real onboarding and limit reviews.
Know your exposure
Track exposures, quantify with PFE/EPE/xVA, test against volatility, separate right- from wrong-way risk, and value with FMV.
Know your products
Apply CCR exposure to REPOs, margin loans, interest rate swaps, FX, commodities, equities and options.
Know your risk management
Reduce exposure by means of margin and netting through skillful use of ISDA documentation.
Capstone case study
Analyze ways to reduce exposures through structuring and risk mitigation strategies.

Advanced Program

The Advanced Program challenges participants to think strategically. It builds on technical skills to address stressed conditions, complex deals, and cross-functional communication.

Know your exposure
Tie exposures to changes in market prices and rates, liquidity and systemic risk.
Know your counterparty
See through transaction exposure to assess clients’ strategic hedging requirements, evaluate margin’s effectiveness in mitigating clients’ risk taking.
Know your products
Analyze and explain clients’ use of forwards, swaps and options to highlight relative riskiness and predict the impact of unexpected market moves on client exposures by means of actual client case studies.
Know your risk management
Explore exposures, collateral, liquidity and concentration risks in fast-moving crises where risk managers must act within minutes to prevent losses.
Capstone case study
Explain what went wrong in a large CCR loss with a leveraged, concentrated portfolio of complex derivatives. Apply effective credit policy to design how the bank should have structured its relationship with its client.

Develop Practical Skills for Today’s CCR Challenges

The Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) Academy equips professionals with the know-how and practical tools to measure exposures, manage collateral, and communicate risks with confidence.

Download the full brochure to see how the program develops expertise that connects directly to business outcomes.

‘‘Banks’ CCR managers need to have sufficient experience, expertise and stature to understand CCR and interact with counterparts in trading businesses and with the bank’s most senior managers.”

– BIS Bank for International Settlement, Guidelines for Counterparty Credit Risk Management, Dec. 2024

Audience Profile

Our Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) programs are designed for a broad spectrum of professionals across industries, career stages, and functions.

Industries we support

Banks, insurance firms, hedge funds, asset managers, private capital firms, corporate treasuries, and professional services firms.

Career and skilling phases

From early-career entrants and onboarding cohorts to reskilling and upskilling initiatives, our programs adapt to evolving needs across the employee lifecycle.

Functions and roles

Risk, compliance, technology, front office, finance, and audit professionals who require the expertise and confidence to manage counterparty credit risk in today’s complex markets.

FAQs

Weak CCR controls can trigger billions in losses. Regulators now demand both technical competence and strong governance in how firms manage CCR.

It is the risk that a trading partner defaults before final settlement. Exposures move with market values, volatility, and collateral, making CCR more complex than traditional loan credit risk. 

Risk, Treasury, and Markets professionals, as well as those in Finance, Operations, Collateral, and Compliance. Suitable for first and second line roles, from new hires to experienced staff. 

Fluency in exposure measures (PFE, EE, EPE, CVA/xVA), wrong-way risk analysis, collateral management, ISDA/CSA, stress testing, and clear exposure communication. 

Through blended learning: self-directed modules, facilitator-led sessions, case studies, and applied simulations, reinforced by assessments and capstones. 

The program addresses supervisory priorities: competent staff, effective challenge of the front office, clear communication, and a governance culture that escalates issues early. 

The Academy is built around a CCR capability framework, integrates "day in the life" simulations, and links learning directly to business outcomes. 

Diagnostics, case-based assessments, and capstone projects provide evidence of skills gained and ensure impact can be tracked against business KPIs. 

Yes. Participants receive a certificate of completion, and CPE/CPD credits can be aligned where required. 

The Core Program typically runs over several weeks with a balance of self-study and workshops. The Advanced Program can be customized to client needs. 

Yes. Content, case studies, and simulations can be tailored to client portfolios, product sets, and regulatory environments. 

Talk to Our Team

We’d be happy to discuss how the Counterparty Credit Risk Academy can support your organization.

About Intuition

Trusted by financial institutions worldwide, Intuition is your end-to-end strategic learning partner, empowering teams with the knowledge and skills to perform, grow, and lead. Built on a legacy in financial services, we now support organizations across industries with integrated learning strategies that extend beyond content. From diagnostics and onboarding to leadership development and cultural change, our solutions align learning with business outcomes to drive measurable impact. Backed by four decades of global experience, an expert network, and powerful digital infrastructure, we deliver insight-driven solutions built around your needs.