Upcoming Corporate Finance Seminar to Focus on Commercial Banking Strategies
¶ Techniques for Assessing Risk and Building Client Relationships
Will Be Shared by Commercial Banking Specialist Omega Performance
During Understanding Corporate Finance -- Coming to Chicago and
Cleveland This November
The key to long-term success in today's sophisticated commercial banking
environment is knowing how to effectively assess credit risk and build
profitable client relationships, two skills that credit training
specialist Omega Performance will teach during Understanding
Corporate Finance—its first U.S. public
seminar to be held on November 6, 2008 in Chicago, Ill., and on November
13, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Designed for commercial lending staff who need to understand clients'
investment and financing decisions or who underwrite and approve credit
risk, the one-day, highly interactive seminar will enable participants
to:
Build stronger relationships by identifying corporate finance
opportunities and assisting clients to appropriately assess options
Better understand clients' capital investment options by using the
principles of time value of money
Assist clients in evaluating appropriate financing options by
quantifying and evaluating a company's cost of capital
Effectively advise clients by assessing corporate finance strategies
Determine appropriate strategies by applying business valuation
techniques
Determine the most appropriate capital structure using corporate finance
instruments, including debt and equity issues
Understanding
Corporate Finance will be facilitated by 32-year commercial banking
veteran, Dr. Jerry Crigger, Omega Performance's vice president and
senior consultant: credit and risk management and Dr. Gary Powell DBA,
CFA, a professor of finance who has taught at the university level for
over 20 years.
“For over three decades, Omega Performance's
world-renowned self-study, workshop, and online credit training
solutions have helped clients improve credit quality and increase
profitability,” said Mario Berard, Omega
Performance's president and CEO. “With our
first public seminar, Understanding Corporate Finance, we're expanding
our portfolio of credit training solutions and giving financial services
companies another way to build commercial lending skills.”
Omega Performance has enabled more than 2,500 firms worldwide to drive
and sustain improved business results. The company is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Informa plc (INF on the London Stock Exchange), the
leading international provider of specialist information and services
for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business
communities. Informa has over 150 offices in more than 40 countries and
employs over 7,000 staff around the world. Omega Performance is
headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., USA, with major offices in Australia,
Canada, China, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
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