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 Duration 35 hours

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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