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Campus: Milan
School: Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences
Intake: November 2021
Language of instruction: English
Duration: November 2021 - October 2022
Total ECTS: 60
CRERIM is the only Specializing Master programme on Credit Risk Management in Italy. It combines quantitative training with a multidisciplinary vision of the credit risk, its management and its measurement. Being a SAS accredited Academic Master programme, it offers the possibility to work in software SAS and prepare for the official examination, and a chance to obtain the internationally valued SAS certificate.
Learning objectives
- Offer in-depth technical-legal training and vision of risk management to other corporate functions
- Provide a deeper understanding of innovative and specific areas of credit risk management: communication, retail credit risk, governance and influence of cognitive and behavioral distortions in the emergence of credit risk retail
- Provide a thematic focus on credit risk in the following credit management phases: client acquisition, portfolio management and planning
- Offer a solid knowledge of computer analytical instruments in order to carry out the operational side of credit risk management
- Provide an adequate overview of statistical techniques for acquisition strategies, segmentation and propensity of retail clientele
- Provide in-depth knowledge of relevant Credit Risk software (SAS) enabling students to perform well day-to-day professional activities
Career opportunities
Graduate placement
The placement rate of CRERIM Alumni is above 90% (100% in the last two years). Placement opportunities are also provided by the internship phase offered, over the years, by a wide range of companies such as: Alba Factoring, Banca di Asti, Banca Mediolanum, Banca Popolare di Milano, Banca Sella, Barclays Bank, Be Consulting, BNP Paribas, CheBanca, Cofidis, Consilia Business Management, Crif, Deloitte Consulting, Deutsche Bank, Diner’s, Eurizon Capital, Experian, Farmafactoring, Fiditalia, Generali RE, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo, Juno Consulting, McKinsey Company & C., Prometeia, SAS, Unicredit Spa, Unipol Sai.
Faculty
Elena Beccalli, Dean of the School of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences and Full Professor of Banking Faculty of Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Scientific Committee
Elena Beccalli
Mario Anolli, Full professor of Economics of financial intermediaries, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Tommaso Giordani, Head of Risk Management, Banca Sella
Giovanni Petrella, Full Professor of Economics of financial intermediaries, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Diego Zappa, Associate Professor of Statistics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Teaching Coordinator
Giuliana Borello, internship tutor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Lara Faverzani, academic tutor, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Advisory Board
The Scientific Committee is assisted by an Advisory Board composed by managers and corporate consultants from the banking and the financial world.
Antonio Arfè, Partner, Deloitte Consulting
Lorenzo Bocchi, Head of Credit and Operational Risk Practice, Prometeia
Andrea Consonni, Head of Pricing Unit Retail Sub - Department International Subsidiary Banks, Intesa Sanpaolo
Matteo Namari, Responsible for the Italian Markets, Moody’s Analytics
Emanuele Giovannini, Head of Italy Credit Risk Modelling, Unicredit
Anselmo Marmonti, Director Risk Practice - South EMEA, SAS
Network
“CRERIM is the only Italian Specializing Master programme on Credit Risk Management. Managing credit model development at Unicredit, I think that after Basilea 2 credit models have become fundamental and today play a key role in financial companies and banks like Unicredit. What we need is the possibility to hire highly specialized resources. That is why this Master’s programme, through its specific design and perspective, allows professionals to meet potentially skilled figures who may become the new generation of organizations like ours”.
Emanuele Giovannini - Head of Credit Models Development Italy at Unicredit
“The specific training in risk management is extremely important to meet the demands of banks nowadays. The placement opportunities in the area of risk management is more and more relevant. The competence provided by CRERIM, besides specializing on contents, has also the plus of equipping participants with a logic approach and methods on which they will be able to rely throughout their future professional experience”.
Tommaso Giordani - Chief Risk Officer, Banca Sella
“CRERIM is a fundamental qualification in order to face in the best way possible the consulting activity, by combining organizational aspects with methods and with the knowledge necessary to develop risk measurement tools and techniques. CRERIM therefore represents an excellent model to consulting companies like Deloitte, that demand highly skilled profiles”.
Antonio Arfè - Partner at Deloitte
“The value of the contribution provided by managers and case studies within the curriculum of the programme enables the participants to acquire a better knowledge of the professional environment, i.e. of their possible activities, and of the issues they will need to face in their field everyday. CRERIM enables them to understand corporate processes and the kind of functions they will be have to manage, thanks to the expertise acquired during the Master’s course”.
Anselmo Marmonti – Manager Business Development, Risk Management Solutions at SAS
“Prometeia is a market leader for risk management solutions and supports an “hands on” approach to teaching. CRERIM is a pragmatic Master with a 90% placement rate. A unique opportunity to learn benefiting from the direct experience of leading managers and in an international environment”.
Lorenzo Bocchi – Director, Deputy Head – Practice Enterprise Risk Management and Deputy Head – Business Line Enterprise Risk Management – Italy, Prometeia
Alumni
Stefano Marotta - ING Bank Read
“Thanks to CRERIM, moreover, I had the opportunity to learn a powerful instrument for data analysis like SAS: the Master gave me the possibility to attend intensive courses for learning the basics of the software and, at the end, gave me also the chance to get a certification.
This is another great result coming from CRERIM as, throughout the internship experience, I’m realizing that having SAS programming skills is really appreciated on the job. In addition, CRERIM provided me the right means to get a first job experience within the banking industry since, at the end of the courses, I started an internship within the Retail Credit Risk team of ING Bank and, what is more, in October I will start a traineeship at the European Central Bank within the Single Supervisory Mechanism.”