Vinod Kothari Consultants P. Ltd.

-World's leading knowledge and training provider on
structured finance, structured credit,
credit risk management, asset finance, etc.

Public and private workshops, residential training courses and more.. 

At a glance Forthcoming training courses Recent training courses Past training courses Why we? Our popular training courses: the complete range Our latest audience feedback Samples of Case studies we discuss. See more In-house / private training courses FAQs on our training courses Contact us for any further detail We just finished our Credit Derivative & CDO School, April 24-30, 2008-see report Sixth/Seventh/Eighth securitisation schools were very successful -see report We now annouce May 23-24, 2008 June 13-14, 2008 Book early to avoid disappointment And "Ninth Securitisatin School"August 20-26, 2008

Our recent Securitisation and structured finance workshops

April 24-30, 2008	Kolkata, India	Credit Derivative & CDO School	Vinod Kothari Consultants
April 15-16, 2008	Kuwait	Introduction to securitisation with special reference to Islamic finance	Kuwait Financial Markets Association
March 27-28, 2008	Mumbai, India	Credit Derivatives and CDOs Asia by Vinod Kothari	marcus evans
March 6-7  2008	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2-day course on Asset-backed Securitisation	The Banking Academy
Jan 16-22  2008	Kolkata, India	Eighth Securitisation School	Vinod Kothari Consultants
Dec 17-18  2007	Mumbai, India	2-day course on REITs by Kerry Adby	Vinod Kothari Consultants
Dec 7-8  2007	Mumbai, India	In-house course on Leasing, Securitisation, Credit derivatives and real estate finance for in-house client	India's largest infrastructure finance company
Sept 6 -8  2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	3-day in-house workshop on securitisation	Malaysian Rating agency
Sept 10-11  2007	Luxembourg	2-day in-house workshop on legal and regulatory issues in ABS	In-house client ; a leading European institution
Sept 27-28  2007	Mumbai, India	Euromoney conference on Indian securitisation - Vinod Kothari leads a panel discussion	Euromoney
October 3-9  2007	Kolkata, India	Seventh Securitisation School .. less than 10 places remain	Vinod Kothari Consultants
Aug 22-23-24  2007	Singapore	Three day workshop on Modelling for securitisation and CDOs	Terrapinn Financial Training
Aug 30 - Sept 5  2007	Kolkata, India	Third Credit Derivatives and CDOs school -complete inputs on the fastest growing financial innovation	Vinod Kothari Consultants
June 25-26  2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2- day course on Structuring and Modelling of securitisation	The Pinnacle Group International
July 11-13 and July 17-19  2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4 sessions of 1 1/2 days each on Asset backed securities and credit derivatives	Standard Chartered Bank
12 May  2007	Mumbai, India	One day inhouse course on credit derivatives with focus on pricing	In-house client
May 24-25-26  2007	Mumbai, India	Three day workshop on Leasing: Making the Most out of an Excellent Business Opportunity	Vinod Kothari Consultants
May 28  2007	Colombo, Sri Lanka	One-day course on Credit Derivatives	Investec Securities
May 29-June 1  2007	Bangalore, India	Three day inhouse course on Structured Finance ; One day course on Accounting for structured finance	A leading global financial services company
3-9 May  2007	Kolkata, India	Second Credit Derivatives and CDOs school -complete inputs on the fastest growing financial innovation	Vinod Kothari Consultants
April 6-7  2007	Shanghai, China	Structuring and Modelling for securitisation	FTC China
April 11-17  2007	Kolkata, India	Sixth Securitisation School - the most comprehensive securitisation training in the World ...Book early to avoid disappointment.	Vinod Kothari Consultants
March 20-21  2007	Central London	Asset backed Securities - Legal, Tax, Accounting and Basle II	Euromoney
March 22-23  2007	Central London	Cross Border Securitisation	Euromoney
March 9,  2007	New Delhi	Leasing - in house course	A leading non-banking finance company in India
February 13-24  2007	Frankfurt	Investing in Asset backed securities	In-house course for a German fund
Dec 13-19  2006	Kolkata, India	Fifth Securitisation School - the most comprehensive securitisation training in the World ...it is already full. We have announced the Sixth School	Vinod Kothari Consultants
Dec 4-7  2006	Singapore	Securitisation World - Vinod Kothari to conduct workshop	Terrapinn
Nov 28  2006	Washington, USA	One-day In house workshop for Fannie Mae	Fannie Mae
Oct 16,  2006	Mumbai, India	Morgan Stanley - Moody's Global Perspectives on Securitisation: Vinod Kothari to deliver luncheon address	Morgan Stanley
Sept 14-16  2006	Kolkata, India	Securitisation Masterclass	Vinod Kothari Consultants
Sept 19-20  2006	Kuwait	2-day inhouse course on securitisation	Rasameel Structured Finance
Aug 21-22  2006	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Cashflow modelling for Securitization	Malaysian Rating Corp Berhad
Aug 23-24  2006	Kuala Lumpur	Credit Derivatives and Synthetic CDOs	Malaysian Rating Corp Berhad
June 15-16  2006	Vienna, Virginia, USA	Latest developments in MBS and ABS	OMNITECH Systems
June 19-20  2006	Central London	Credit Derivatives and Synthetic Securitisation	Marcus Evans Finance
June 21-22  2006	Central London	Cashflow modelling for Securitization	Marcus Evans Finance
July 18-20  2006	Johannesburg, South Africa	Cashflow modelling for Securitization and CDOs	BRIT Training
May 11-12  2006	Kolkata, India	Leasing in a booming economy - details coming soon	Vinod Kothari Consultants P Ltd
April 17  2006	New Delhi, India	Updates on Leasing	GE Cappital
April 19-25  2006	Kolkata, India	The Fourth Securitisation School - the most comprehensive training program on securitisation anywhere in the World	Vinod Kothari Consultants P Ltd
April 27-29  2006	Kolkata, India	Credit Derivatives and CDO Masterclass	Vinod Kothari Consultants P Ltd
Feb 27-28, 2006	Central London	Structuring and Modelling of Securitisations	World Business Strategies
March 21-22, 2006	Central London	Cross border securitisation	Euromoney Training
March 23-24, 2006	Central London	Asset-backed Securities: Legal, Tax, Regulatory and Accounting Issues	Euromoney Training
Feb 16-17, 2006	Shenzhen, China	Securitisation: In-house course for securities company in China	FTC China
Feb 18-19, 2006	Shanghai, China	Investors' Analysis of Securitisation: pricing and risk evaluation	FTC China
Jan 18 & Jan 19-20, 2006	Johannesburg, South Africa	(a) Tax, Accounting and Regulatory Issues on Securitisation (b) Insurance Securitisation	BRIT Training
Jan 27-28 and Jan 30-31 2006	Sri Lanka (by video conferencing)	Securitisation: The Financial Instrument of the New Millennium	Distance Learning Center

For past events, see here

Securitisation School: Most comprehensive, yet most competitively priced

Against the backdrop of several successful runs, we introduce Securitisation School as a regular feature - a 7 day training stint (with one day break in between). This is the most comprehensive securitisation training offered anywhere (if you know of any other such program, we would be happy to stand corrected!). The week-long program is packed with activity :a typical day starts at 9.30 am with tuitions followed by assignments and practicals, and we allow you to interact with participants from all over the World who bring their own experiences.

All our events in the past have had participants from different markets - USA, UK, Germany, East Europe, Middle East, Far East, India, and so on.

We provide accommodation in a 5-star hotel for 8 nights, one person one room basis - the cost of the accommodation (except dinner) is included in the package.

And yet, the entire package comes at an amazingly cheap price : only USD 2750 per person. Our competitors charge, for a 2-day course titled Structured Finance School, USD 7500 - we charge 1/3rd that amount,for thrice as much duration. In addition, we have broken the course into 3 modules of 2 days each - so you may attend any one or more module and skip the rest:

• Securitisation and Synthetic CDOs: Structures and Motivations
• Modelling and Structuring of Securitisation - this is a fully practical hands-on modeling course
• Law, Tax, Accounting and Regulatory Issues

What enables us to price it at such rates? Several factors - one, there are no event producers making money here, we take advantage of a very tightly priced hotel package and pass it on to you, and finally, being at our home town, we are happy with a lower intake!

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Register now before it is late - the number of participant will be restricted. Participants may pay by international remittance or by credit card. Check with us for the best method to make remittance.

Why we

• First, we are independent. If you call law firms or accounting firms or investment bankers to run a training course, they are greatly conditioned by what and how they are doing it, while we may be completely independent.
• Secondly, instead of typical multi-speaker events, our training events are mostly handled by a single faculty. This provides consistency and completeness and avoids conflicts and overlaps, making the most of your time.
• Third, most of our events are very comprehensive - covering different aspects of a subject.
• Fourth, our communication is very simple and we make sure that the least common multiple in our attendees comprehends what is being talked about.

Not surprisingly, therefore, we are forerunners in training on specialised subjects in structured finance.

Our popular training courses

• Securitisation
  • Securitisation: The Financial Instrument of the New Millennium: 2 -days or 3 days, covering a broad spectrum of issues including motivations, legal issues, financial structure and cost of securitisation, accounting and taxation, regulatory capital.
  • Cashflow modelling for securitisation - 2 -days or 3 days, covering practical cashflow modelling for securitisation transactions, starting from simple class room models to models for real life transactions
  • Investing in Asset backed Securities - 2- days course structured specially from investors' viewpoint.
  • Legal tax and accounting issues in securitisation - A course dedicated to legal, true sale, documentation, accounting, taxation and regulatory capital related issues.
  • We combine these in longer courses such as Securitisation School or Securitisation Masterclass.
• Credit derivatives
  • Credit derivatives: The world of commoditisation of credit: 2 -days covering broad spectrum of issues on credit derivatives including types, economics, strategic issues, legal, tax and accounting issues, capital rules and economic capital, pricing of credit derivatives etc.
  • Exotic credit derivatives A 1-day presentation on the latest developments in credit derivatives; we take account of what is making waves in the marketplace.
  • Investing in credit linked notes - A one-day/2 days' course structured specially from viewpoint of investors.
  • We will club these outlines in Credit Derivatives Masterclass which may run for 3 days/ 4 days duration.
• Pricing and mitigation of credit risk
  • Quantitative approaches to pricing of a credit risk :: 2 -days covering Excel-based practical training on credit risk pricing - covers Merton and Merton-based models, intensity based pricing, portfolio risk pricing, correlation and simulations to price portfolio risk, economic capital computation..
• Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
  • The World of CDOs: : 2 -days covering at length the CDO world - including full array of CDO field; balance sheet and arbitrage deals, synthetic and cash deals, managed and static deals. Motivations, functioning, with case studies.
  • Synthetic CDOs: A 2-day course that will focus on synthetic CDOs and cover lots of case studies of real life transactions. Includes fair exposure to credit derivatives as well.
  • Investing in CDOs - A 2-day course designed specially from investors' perspective.
  • We will club these outlines into a CDO Masterclass which may be a 3-day course.
• Leasing and off-balance sheet financing
  • Asset Finance and Leasing - This 2-days/ 3 days course covers basics of leasing, financial and operating leases, legal and tax issues on leasing, tax benefits of leasing, pricing, accounting, etc.
• Operating Leasing workshop: This 2 days' workshop covers operating leasing in fine details, including pricing, residual risk mitigation, accounting, taxation, etc.
• Leasing: Legal, tax and accounting issues: This 2-day event focuses on tax, legal and accounting issues for financial and operating leases.
• Accounting for financial instruments
  • Accounting for Financial Instruments [IAS 39/ FAS 133] This 2-days event covers accounting for financial instruments, derivatives, embedded derivatives and the hedging rules of IAS 39/ FAS 133 with lots of examples and workings. May be extended to 3 days to allow practice.

   

  Do ask for outline of any of these courses.

Feedback of some of our attendees

• An in-house client, a leading Australian bank: "Just a quick message to say how pleased we were with the outcome of the three sessions you gave. Given the vastly different audiences and levels of knowledge, I think based on my personal observations and comments from participants that you achieved a greatly increased understanding of the
  product."
  
• Uschi Phuah, Straits Lion, Singapore: "Presenter has very good knowledge; very patient too."
• Kelvin Leong, Malaysia Rating Corporation: "A walking library! Excellent knowledge-base"
• Tatsaya Imade, UFJ Institute, Japan: "Great person, education with philosophy".
• Teo Kok Liang, Mizuho Corporate Bank.: "Very knowledgeable and has provided me a good foundation in securitisation know-how"
• Name suppressed, Bank of Finland, Helsinki: "Vinod definitely knows his stuff!".
• Peter Van den Heever, Nedcor Investment Bank, South Africa: "Excellent insight and knowledge of the subject and most insightful 2 day session".
• Anon: "Given his non-practitioner background, his knowledge on ABS is outstanding, may even exceed that of practitioners"
• Francia T Manlapaz, SEC, Philippines: "He has mastery over the subject matter".
• Letitia Chan, J P Morgan: "Vinod is very knowledgeable and professional
• Chan Peng Fun, ABN Amro: "Very knowledgeable. Able to convey in simple way"

Everyone is unique, and so are we. However, it is important to understand the essential difference between single-speaker training events and the typical industry forums which are organised by event producers. A typical event producer will assemble various speakers from the industry, all of whom are sponsored by their respective firms to talk about their firms and the great deals they have done; none of them know more than their job would require them to. At the end of the day, as a participant, you would have heard a dozen speakers, with no cohesive theme. You will have lots of bits and pieces in your mind but nothing comprehensive.

On the other hand, ours is a single faculty course which develops the subject from a scratch and takes to a cohesive comprehensive finality.

Here are some of the C's to our Credit

• Comprehensive: All our courses are comprehensive: we cover every aspect of the subject to give to the participant a thorough and all-pervasive insight.
• Clear: Vinod Kothari is known for his clear communication. Even seemingly complex issues like accounting for securitization are made clear enough for everyone to understand.
• Case studies: We spend substantial time discussing recent case studies. We have a substantial base of case studies covering recent innovative deals.
• Contemporary: Vinod Kothari's website is an testimony to our constant feel of the pulse of the market. So all our courses teach most updated information.
• Carry-away stuff: Our course materials are very comprehensive, often running over 200 pages. Besides, if agreed, we can also supply copies of Vinod Kothari's books.
• Competitive: Our pricing is fairly competitive compared to other international faculties.

We do discuss live case studies. Practicals or exercises depends on the nature of the course.

We have a comprehensive base of case studies specifically designed for our courses. We select representative cases highlighting a new idea, new application or a new structure. Most of our cases are fairly recent.

See here some of the sample cases we discuss in our courses.

This again, depends. In some courses we do call a guest speaker who we think is better acquainted with the market dynamics of a particular region/subject.

You get a very comprehensive hard copy of the presentation. The course material is quite comprehensive and is updated with latest data and information.

In some courses, the participants are also given a free copy of Vinod Kothari's book on securitisation.

Private/ in-house training: Will you be willing to organise a workshop in my country, for me or for public participation?

We will be more than happy to do so. Actually, if you have 7-8 persons to be trained, an in-house course is the best option. Apart from privacy and tailoring, in-house courses stimulate group thinking and often we have found brilliant ideas emerge during the discussions.

I is advisable to consult us about availability, travel schedules etc. before moving any further. If you have any questions, please do get back.

Who actually conducts the lectures?

Generally speaking, Vinod Kothari. But we reserve our right to assign the job to any other properly qualified trainer.

Who actually conducts the lectures?

Generally speaking, Vinod Kothari. But we reserve our right to assign the job to any ot

What are the typical fees we charge?

For private courses, we will expect to charge approximately Euro 3000 per day of time spent. Time spent includes time in travelling. The minimum fees for any workshop will be Euro 6000. This is apart from reimbursement of actual expenses.

How many faculties/ trainers will be travelling?

Only one.

How do we ensure audience satisfaction?

Our past performance does this. In the past, well over 75% of the participants have consistently rated our courses are excellent.

What equipment do you require?

Usual presentation devices - a computer projector. Mostly we would bring along our own laptop, but should it be required, you might have to arrange for one.

What is the typical size of the audience?

Upto you - from 25 to 40. But we would suggest you should cap it to 40.

I have more questions.

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