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Duration 35 hours
Course Outline
An introduction to risk
- Defining risk and the rationale for bank risk management
- Perspectives on risk as a downside experience
- The global scope of banking and associated risks
- An overview of the primary types of risk in banking
- Potential consequences of inadequate risk management
- Risk Appetite
- Risk Management principles
Case study
International risk regulations
- The nature of risk-based regulations
- The link between risk exposure and capital requirements
- Understanding capital adequacy
- Key international regulatory frameworks
- Basel Accord
- Sarbanes-Oxley
Case Study
The Basel Accords
- The evolution of international banking risk regulation
- Objectives behind banking risk controls
- Challenges posed by global regulatory harmonization
- Basel I Accord and the Market Risk Amendment
- The Basel II Accord
- Capital requirements under Basel II
- Basel 2.5 and Basel III
- The leverage ratio
- Countercyclical capital buffer
- Systemic interconnectedness
Case study: Capital requirements under Basel III
Market risk
- Defining market risk
- Market activities and trading dynamics
- Primary market instruments
- Cash instruments
- Derivative instruments
- Strategies for managing market risk
- Measuring and controlling market risk
- Regulatory frameworks for market risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study: Consequences of poor market risk management – JP Morgan
Credit risk
- Understanding credit risk
- Credit products in international markets
- Mitigation and management of credit risk
- The credit approval process
- Credit analysis methodologies
- Portfolio Management
- Quantifying credit risk
- Regulatory frameworks for credit risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study
Operational risk
- Defining operational risk and its significance
- Expected versus unexpected losses
- Categorization of operational risk events
- The three lines of defence model
- Operational risk management principles
- Frameworks for operational risk management
- Initial steps in implementation
- Reporting structures for operational risk
- Scope of operational risk management
- Assessment and measurement of operational risk
- Regulatory frameworks for operational risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study: UBS
Liquidity risk
- Defining liquidity risk
- Categorization of liquidity
- Impacts of unmanaged liquidity
- Sources of liquidity
- Metrics for measuring liquidity
- Stress testing techniques
- Liquidity management strategies
- Regulatory frameworks for liquidity risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study:
Asset and Liability Management and other risks
- Defining Asset and Liability Management
- ALCOs and Treasury functions
- Banking book versus Trading Book
- Interest rate risk in the banking book
- Measuring and managing IRRBB
- Contractual versus behavioral approaches
- Stress testing
- ‘Other’ risks
Case study:
Supervision & disclosure
- The role of supervision and disclosure
- Home/host supervisory cooperation
- The ICAAP process
- Supervision and disclosure requirements under Basel
- Changes introduced by Basel III
Case study:
Defining Enterprise Risk Management
- What is ERM?
- Benefits of an ERM framework
- The ERM process lifecycle
- The risk management function
- Portfolio management in ERM
- Risk considerations in new product development
- Basel Committee guidance
- Commonly adopted frameworks
Case study
Integrated risk management
- Integrating risks across the organization
- Role of risk committees
- Formulating risk policies
- Identifying and assessing risks
- Aggregating risk across different types
- Calculating economic capital
- Interactions between various risk types
Case study
Corporate Governance
- Defining corporate governance
- Stakeholder identification and conflict resolution
- Advantages of robust corporate governance
- Evolution of governance standards - Cadbury, Walker, and Hicks reports
- External perspectives on Corporate Governance (rating agencies, regulators)
Case study: Can a bank be “Too big to manage”?
Good corporate governance
- Corporate organizational structures
- The function of non-executive directors
- Governance techniques and strategies
- Committee structures and management practices
- Communication protocols
- The role of senior management
- Internal frameworks for Corporate Governance
- OECD and Basel guidance
Case study:
Risk Governance
- Structuring risk management governance
- Fostering a culture of risk awareness
- Implementing a risk culture
- Establishing risk management committees
- Aligning Governance, risk, and compliance
Case study:
The future
- The emerging regulatory regime
- Implications for the banking industry
- Implications for regulators
- Key priorities in the global banking regulatory agenda
- Anticipated future flashpoints
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