## Quantitative Techniques for Debt Management

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**Canonical URL:** [Quantitative Techniques for Debt Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/qdmst24-18)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 24.18
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: May 20-24, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience and qualifications
- Target audience: Officials from finance ministries, treasury departments, debt management offices, and central banks.
- Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, or equivalent experience, as well as at least two years of working experience in debt management.

### Course description
- Presented by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
- Aim: To build capacity on key quantitative concepts in fixed income for debt managers, and for undertaking debt management operations.
- Designed to enable participants to:
  - Improve analysis of potential financing options.
  - Evaluate the pricing of loans and securities.
  - Understand quantitative techniques in liability management operations.
  - Explore options for developing and publishing yield curves when pursuing a benchmark issuance strategy.

### Course objectives (competencies upon completion)
- Understand the characteristics of different debt management instruments in terms of their cashflows and be able to calculate price, yield, modified duration and other metrics.
- Understand the difference between forward, spot and par yields and be able to build basic yield curves using fitting techniques in Excel.
- Understand how to actively manage the redemption profile with debt buybacks, reverse and switch auctions, including the pricing mechanics of such operations.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of other relevant financial instruments for a debt manager, including repo, interest rate and exchange rate swaps.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2024/qdmst24-18_