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Duration 35 hours
Course Outline
An introduction to risk
- Defining risk and the necessity for banks to manage it
- Whether risk is solely a downside experience
- The global nature of banking and associated risks
- An overview of major risk types in banking
- Potential consequences of inadequate risk management in banks
- Risk Appetite
- Risk Management
Case study
International risk regulations
- Understanding risk-based regulations
- The relationship between risk and capital
- Defining capital adequacy
- Key international regulatory frameworks
- Basel Accord
- Sarbanes-Oxley
Case Study
The Basel Accords
- The evolution of international banking risk regulation
- Objectives of banking risk management
- Challenges posed by global regulations
- Basel I Accord and the Market Risk Amendment
- Basel II Accord
- Capital requirements under Basel II
- Basel 2.5 and Basel III
- Leverage ratio
- Countercyclical capital buffer
- Systemic interconnectedness
Case study: Capital under Basel III
Market risk
- Definition of market risk
- Market activities and trading rationales
- Primary market instruments
- Cash instruments
- Derivative instruments
- Managing market risk
- Measurement and management of market risk
- Regulatory frameworks for market risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study: Consequences of mis-managing market risk – JP Morgan
Credit risk
- Understanding credit risk
- Credit products in the international market
- Mitigation and management of credit risk
- The credit process
- Credit analysis procedures
- Portfolio Management
- Measurement of credit risk
- Regulatory frameworks for credit risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study
Operational risk
- Defining operational risk and its significance
- Risk of loss, including expected and unexpected losses
- Categorization of operational risk events
- The three lines of defence
- Operational risk management
- Operational risk management frameworks
- Initial steps in implementation
- Reporting structures for operational risk management
- 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
- Definition of liquidity risk
- Categories of liquidity
- Consequences of poor liquidity management
- Sources of liquidity
- Liquidity measurement
- Stress testing
- Liquidity management strategies
- Regulatory frameworks for liquidity risk
- Basel II
- Basel III
Case study:
Asset and Liability Management and other risks
- Understanding Asset and Liability Management
- ALCOs and Treasuries
- Banking Book vs. Trading Book
- Interest rate risk in the banking book
- Measuring and managing IRRBB
- Contractual vs. behavioural aspects
- Stress testing
- ‘Other’ risks
Case study:
Supervision & disclosure
- Understanding supervision and disclosure
- Co-operation between home and host supervisors
- The ICAAP
- Supervision and disclosure requirements under Basel
- Changes introduced by Basel III
Case study:
Defining Enterprise Risk Management
- What is ERM?
- Benefits of ERM
- The ERM process
- The risk management function
- Portfolio management
- New product development
- Basel Committee guidance
- Commonly adopted frameworks
Case study
Integrated risk management
- Integrating risks across the bank
- Risk committees
- Risk policies
- Risk recognition and assessment
- Aggregating risk across different risk types
- Economic capital
- Interactions between risk types
Case study
Corporate Governance
- Definition of corporate governance
- Stakeholders and potential conflicts of interest
- Benefits of effective corporate governance
- Evolution of corporate governance – Cadbury, Walker, Hicks reports
- External perspectives on Corporate Governance (rating agencies, regulators)
Case study: Can a bank be “Too big to manage”?
Good corporate governance
- Corporate structures
- The role of non-executive directors
- Techniques and strategies
- Committees and management practices
- Communication
- The role of senior management
- Internal framework of Corporate Governance
- OECD and Basel guidance
Case study:
Risk Governance
- Governance of risk management
- Cultivating a culture of risk awareness
- Implementing a risk culture
- Risk management committees
- Alignment of governance, risk, and compliance
Case study:
The future
- The new regulatory regime
- Implications for the banking industry
- Implications for regulators
- Priorities in the global banking regulatory agenda
- Future flashpoints
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