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Risk & Compliance Challenges
Risk & Compliance challenges put you inside the work of spotting exposure and keeping a business on the right side of the rules. You'll build skills in risk identification, telling inherent vs residual risk apart, control testing, key risk indicators and regulatory analysis, and run regulatory compliance the way risk teams expect.
From there you'll tackle the harder edges — anti-money laundering (AML), KYC/CDD/EDD workflows, OFAC sanctions screening and Basel III/IV regulatory frameworks — modeling credit risk, value-at-risk (VaR), expected shortfall and running stress testing. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- StrategySeniorNew
Run a Mock Algorithmic-Discrimination Investigation for a Hiring-Tech Vendor
As a 3-person team, design and execute a 3-week mock inquiry. Produce: (1) the demand letter you imagine the regulator sending (scope, legal basis, data requested); (2) the vend…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Ai Governance
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Internationalization Strategy for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are the head of international growth at DataFlow. Your task is to develop a strategy for entering the German and French markets within 12 months. You must decide between a d…
- Internationalization Strategy
- Product Localization
- Sales Channel Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Architecture Evaluation via ATAM for a Healthcare Platform
Run a 2-phase ATAM (Phase 1: present architecture + elicit quality-attribute goals + analyze approaches; Phase 2: broader stakeholder validation). Capture: business drivers, qua…
- Atam
- Architecture Evaluation
- Quality Attributes
Software Architecture - DesignSeniorNew
Structuring an Interest Rate Swap for a UK Infrastructure Fund
You are a structured finance associate at a bank advising InfraBridge. Design a plain vanilla interest rate swap that converts the floating-rate liability to fixed. Provide the …
- Interest Rate Swaps
- Derivatives Pricing
- Credit Risk
Open coursework Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- DesignBeginnerNew
Draft a Model Card for a Generative Image Product
You receive the model's training-data summary, evaluation metrics, intended-use statement, and known failure modes from the ML team. Write: (a) a 3-page plain-language model car…
- Model Cards
- Transparency Documentation
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Draft GDPR + AI Act Data Provisions for a Training-Data Vendor
Anchor the work on (1) GDPR Articles 28 (processor obligations) and 32 (security), (2) the EU AI Regulation's data-governance article for high-risk systems, and (3) the EDPB's p…
- Data Protection Law
- Contract Redlining
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Investigate Germany's Market for EcoThreads' Entry
Your task is to investigate the German sustainable fashion market and produce a recommended entry strategy for EcoThreads. Start from the company facts in the EcoThreads briefin…
- Market Entry
- Competitive Analysis
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Auditing Bias in a Fintech Credit Scoring Model
Conduct a quantitative fairness audit using a public proxy dataset (e.g., the UCI Adult or Give Me Some Credit dataset re-framed as BNPL decisions) and apply at least three fair…
- Algorithmic Fairness
- Ai Audit
- Regulatory Analysis
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Non-Market Strategy for Boston D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior strategy consultant hired by Glow Naturals. Your task is to develop a non-market strategy that includes: (1) a stakeholder mapping and engagement plan, (2) a po…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Public Policy
- Non Market Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize Stop-Loss Policies with Dynamic Programming at a Quant Fund
You receive five years of daily PnL series for 12 momentum strategies plus a small set of state features (rolling vol, drawdown, regime indicator). Calibrate a discrete Markov m…
- Dynamic Programming
- Backward Induction
- State Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Climate Risk Stress Test for a Regional Bank
Your task is to develop a climate risk stress test framework for the bank's commercial loan book. Deliver a scenario analysis (2-3 scenarios), a methodology to estimate probabil…
- Climate Risk
- Stress Testing
- Scenario Analysis
Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Regulatory Compliance Strategy for PayBridge in India
Working as a pair of regulatory analysts, design a regulatory strategy proposal for PayBridge's leadership. Ground every claim in the provided materials: use the PayBridge compa…
- Regulatory Compliance
- Public Policy
- Stakeholder Engagement
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Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
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- DesignSeniorNew
Digital Innovation Lab for a Regional Bank
Your task is to design a blueprint for the innovation lab. Define its structure (e.g., hub-and-spoke, virtual team), governance (e.g., stage-gate process), and funding model. Pr…
- Innovation Lab Design
- Regulatory Compliance
- Legacy System Integration
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map a Healthtech Startup's Triage Bot to the EU AI Regulation
Read the EU AI Regulation's Annex III (high-risk areas) carefully. Classify the triage bot's components and explain whether the system is high-risk; if so, enumerate the applica…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Ai Governance
- Risk Mapping
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Design an Internal AI-Use Policy for a Mid-Cap Bank
You receive the bank's existing IT-acceptable-use policy and a description of which AI tools are being rolled out (an internal Anthropic Claude wrapper for general use; a code-c…
- Ai Governance
- Policy Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screening Model for Demographic Bias
You receive: (a) inference API access to the production model (black-box), (b) a 12,000-resume audit benchmark with self-declared gender and age-band labels (consented, GDPR-com…
- Fairness Metrics
- Bias Auditing
- Model Evaluation
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Compliance Strategy for an AI Robo-Advisor in the EU
Anchor the work on the published EU AI Regulation risk classification (limited vs. high-risk systems) and the European Securities and Markets Authority guidelines on robo-advice…
- Ai Governance
- Regulatory Analysis
- Product Strategy
AI and Quantitative Finance - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Solar Exporter
Your task is to quantify Solara's net exposure in each currency, recommend a hedging mix (e.g., 70% forwards, 30% options) with rationale, calculate the cost of the strategy usi…
- Currency Hedging
- Financial Modeling
- Risk Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field Investigation: Heartland Bank's Liquidity Under a Deposit Run
Investigate, then plan. Step one: aggregate the position-level holdings in the Heartland Bank position ledger (heartland-position-ledger) to compute the bank's Liquidity Coverag…
- Liquidity Risk
- Lcr
- Nsfr
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Plan PayBridge's Cross-Border Payments Entry into Southeast Asia
Design a market entry proposal for PayBridge covering Indonesia and Vietnam, and recommend one entry mode — acquisition, partnership, or organic build. Ground every claim in the…
- Market Entry
- Game Theory
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Launch GlowSF Skincare in Tokyo: A Market-Entry Judgment
Working only from the four provided materials, produce a market-entry recommendation for GlowSF's Tokyo launch. Examine the GlowSF company file to fix the brand identity, produc…
- Cross Cultural Analysis
- Market Entry Strategy
- Marketing Mix Adaptation
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Geopolitical Strategy for a UK Fintech Expanding to the Middle East
Students will work in teams to produce a geopolitical market entry strategy for PayBridge. The strategy must include a comparative analysis of the UAE and Saudi Arabia, a risk m…
- Market Entry Strategy
- Geopolitical Risk Mitigation
- Regulatory Analysis
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Design a Virtual Ideation Workshop for EcoThreads' Circular Line
Design a facilitation package for a single 4-hour virtual ideation workshop with twelve EcoThreads participants. Using only the company brief (mat-company-brief), the participan…
- Ideation
- Workshop Facilitation
- Circular Economy
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
International Expansion Strategy for a Fintech Startup
You are a strategy team of 3. Analyze three target markets (Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines) using macroeconomic data, regulatory barriers, and competitive landscape. Recommend …
- Market Entry Strategy
- Macroeconomic Analysis
- Regulatory Analysis
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