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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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