WATSON & WELLS SOLUTIONS · PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
COHORT 07 · ENROLLING NOW
Watson & WellsProfessional Certification
Commercial Lending & OTC Derivatives

You don't learn the system.
You operate it.

Two professional certifications built on the real screens bankers and traders use every day — CBS deal tickets, trade blotters, covenant monitors, GL postings. Not slides. Not theory. The desk, simulated end to end.

Explore CCLP™Commercial Lending · 40 hrs
Explore CODP™OTC Derivatives · 50 hrs
9 system simulators·15 modules·real bank source material
Commercial Lending · CBS
OTC Derivatives · TRM.3
LIVE PREVIEW
CBS — CLTREDIT · Facility InquiryWW-LOC-2025-0091
CBS › Commercial Lending › Line of Credit › Facility Inquiry › CLTREDIT
// FACILITY
BORROWER
Apex Communications Corp
PRODUCT
REVOLVING LOC
COMMITMENT
$25,000,000
DRAWN
$16,400,000
AVAILABLE
$8,600,000
STATUS
ACTIVE
// COVENANT COMPLIANCE — CREDCOVENANT
FCCR
1.42×  PASS
LEVERAGE
2.8×  PASS
CURRENT RATIO
1.05×  WATCH
CLEAN-UP
30 days @ $0
CBS — CLTREDIT | Watson & Wells Bank N.A.MAKER ✓   CHECKER ✓
TRM.3 — OTC Trade Blotter · Front OfficeSESSION 2026-06-14
PRODUCTCCY/NOTIONALRATEMTMUTISTATUS
IRS · SOFRUSD 50.0M3.92%+184,200WW…A1F9CLEARED
CDS · 5YEUR 20.0M112 bps−47,800WW…C7B2CONFIRMED
FX SWAPUSD/JPY 30.0M—+22,650WW…D3E0SETTLED
SWAPTIONGBP 15.0M1Y5Y+9,310WW…F844BOOKED
GOLD · ASIANUSD 10.0M—−3,120WW…B910BOOKED
5 TRADES · INITIAL MARGIN POSTED · CSA: BILATERALNET MTM +165,240
40hrsCCLP™ · Lending
50hrsCODP™ · Derivatives
15Modules total
9System simulators
100%Hands-on assessment
Two certifications · one standard

Pick the desk you want to run.

Each track is built front-to-back on its own real system. You finish able to set up, book, and service live deals — assessed on the screens themselves, not on a multiple-choice sheet.

CB
CBS · Core Banking System

Commercial Lending

Certified Commercial Lending Professional — CCLP™

The full US commercial-loan lifecycle: introduce the products, originate the deal, underwrite the credit, document the collateral, book the loan, and service it to maturity — across LOC, CRE, equipment, construction, factoring, syndicated and trade finance.

  • CLTPARTY · CLTREDIT · CLTLIMIT — origination
  • OLDTRONL · OLDLIQD · ICCF — booking & interest
  • OBELCM · CREDCOVENANT — collateral & covenants
40Hours
7Modules
8Simulators
View the CCLP™ outline →
DV
TRM.3 · Treasury & Risk Management

OTC Derivatives

Certified OTC Derivatives Professional — CODP™

Book and run a cross-asset derivatives book end to end — rates, FX, credit, equity, commodity and inflation — then take trades through confirmation, clearing, margin, collateral and settlement on a live trade-and-risk platform.

  • IRS · FRA · Swaption · Cap/Floor — rates
  • CDS · FX Swap · Variance · Barrier — cross-asset
  • Clearing · IM/VM · CSA · settlement — lifecycle
50Hours
8Modules
13Products
View the CODP™ outline →
Simulator Lab

Slides tell you. The screen makes you prove it.

Every concept is taught on a working recreation of the production system — the same screen codes, fields, GL entries and validations a real operator faces. Here's what you actually touch.

OLDTRONL:21 · Drawdown

Book money, generate the GL

Process a maker/checker drawdown, watch availability fall, and reconcile the postings the system generates.

DR LOANS$2,000,000
CR NOSTRO$2,000,000
AVAIL AFTER$6,600,000
CREDCOVENANT · Monitor

Trip a covenant, then fix it

Move the inputs, breach a maintenance test, and work the remediation — the way a credit officer does at quarter-end.

FCCR1.42× PASS
LEVERAGE2.8× PASS
DSCR0.97× BREACH
TRM.3 · Trade Blotter

Run a cross-asset book

Book an IRS, a CDS and an FX swap, then push them through clearing, margin and settlement on one blotter.

IRS · SOFR+184,200
CDS · 5Y−47,800
NET MTM+165,240
Who it's for

Built for people who'll be judged on the work, not the certificate.

01

Finance & MBA graduates

Convert classroom theory into the system fluency a desk actually hires for.

02

Junior credit & markets analysts

Close the gap between what you were taught and what the screen demands on day one.

03

Banking technology professionals

Understand the business logic behind the screens you build, test and support.

04

Career changers & laterals

Walk into interviews able to talk through a live deal or a booked trade with confidence.

Faculty

Taught by people who have done the work.

Practitioners first, trainers second — they've run the deals and booked the trades they teach. Profiles are kept practitioner-led; the roster grows with each cohort.

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Lead Faculty · Global Markets & Derivatives

Markets & Derivatives SME 20+ yrs

A subject-matter expert in OTC derivatives, fixed income, money markets and commodities who has trained more than 6,000 professionals across global financial institutions, and designed a commercial-lending certification for a major US bank. Brings the trade life cycle alive with live market data and real desk workflows.

PhD · ManagementEquipment Finance — CFI USAPrime Services & Securities Lending — CFI USANISM Equity Research Analyst
Delivered atBNY Mellon · Société Générale · Wells Fargo · UBS · Northern Trust
CODP™CCLP™
02
Lead Faculty · Corporate Credit & Banking

Corporate Credit Veteran 31 yrs

Three decades across corporate and project finance, banking, risk management, M&A, valuations and private equity — including a managing-director role investing ~USD 200m for a global asset manager, and eleven years at a leading bank in project finance, corporate banking and distressed-asset management. A corporate trainer to senior management since 2011.

MMS — NMIMS MumbaiB.E. Chemical — UDCT MumbaiCredit UnderwritingValuation & Financial Modelling
Delivered atBank of America · BNP Paribas · Deutsche Bank · JPMorgan · Société Générale · Wells Fargo
CCLP™CODP™
Faculty roster is growing. Additional practitioners are added each cohort across credit, rates and structured products.
Join the faculty →
Alumni voices

From people who now run the desk.

Past CCLP™ and CODP™ participants — each card links to their LinkedIn so you can see the careers behind the words.

I came in able to define a swap and a covenant. I left able to book one. Running a deal end to end on the actual screens — then a trade through clearing and margin — is what made the interviews easy.
AJ
Abhilash L JalageriCCLP™ & CODP™ Alumnus
in · LinkedIn
The first time I processed a drawdown and watched my own GL entries balance, commercial lending stopped being a textbook chapter. That muscle memory is what the desk actually wants.
Daivik D RCCLP™ Alumnusin/daivik-dr
Booking an IRS, then watching it move through a CCP versus a CSA, taught me more about margin in an afternoon than months of reading had. The blotter makes it concrete.
Santhosh RaoCODP™ Alumnusin/santhosh-rao
Spreading a CRE T-12, normalising NOI and building the credit memo on the system — not in a slide — is the part of underwriting nobody else teaches you to do by hand.
Vinay BettadaCCLP™ Alumnusin/vinay-bettada
The cross-asset capstone — rates, credit and FX on one book through to settlement — is the closest thing to a live trading-and-risk desk I'd seen before I actually joined one.
Arun S KumarCODP™ Alumnusin/arunskumar
Insights

Notes from the desk.

Short, practical writing on the things the systems quietly teach you — pulled from the same source material as the certifications.

Commercial Lending

What a borrowing-base certificate is really testing

Eligibility rules, dilution, and why the BBC — not the commitment — sets your true availability.

6 MIN READ · CCLP™
OTC Derivatives

Cleared vs bilateral: where the margin actually goes

Walk an IRS through a CCP and a CSA side by side and watch the collateral mechanics diverge.

7 MIN READ · CODP™
Quiz

Can you spread a CRE T-12 in 10 questions?

A quick, shareable check on NOI normalisation, DSCR and debt yield. Post your score.

QUIZ · 10 Q · SHARE
Cohort 07 · enrolling

Get desk-ready on the real system.

Apply to the next CCLP™ or CODP™ cohort, or download the full programme outline to see every module and simulator.

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