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Introduction to Risk

  • Understanding risk and its importance for banks
  • Is risk solely a negative experience?
  • The global nature of banking and associated risks
  • Introduction to the major types of risk in banking
  • Potential consequences of failing to manage bank risks
  • Risk Appetite
  • Risk Management principles

Case study

International Risk Regulations

  • Understanding risk-based regulations
  • Linking risk with capital requirements
  • Concept of capital adequacy
  • Key international regulations
    • Basel Accord
    • Sarbanes-Oxley

Case Study

The Basel Accords

  • The evolution of international banking risk regulation
  • Objectives of banking risk regulation
  • Challenges of global regulatory alignment
  • The 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 drivers
  • Main market instruments
    • Cash instruments
    • Derivative instruments
  • Strategies for managing market risk
  • Measurement and management of market risk
  • Market risk regulation
    • Basel II
    • Basel III

Case study: Consequences of mismanaging market risk – JPMorgan

Credit Risk

  • Defining credit risk
  • Credit products in an international market
  • Mitigating and managing credit risk
  • The credit approval process
  • The credit analysis process
  • Portfolio Management
  • Credit risk measurement
  • Credit risk regulation
    • Basel II
    • Basel III

Case study

Operational Risk

  • Defining operational risk and its significance
  • Risk of loss: expected vs. unexpected losses
  • Operational risk event categories
  • The three lines of defense model
  • Operational risk management
  • Operational risk management framework
  • Where to begin?
  • Reporting lines for operational risk management
  • Scope of operational risk management
  • Measurement and assessment of operational risk
  • Operational risk regulation
    • Basel II
    • Basel III

Case study: UBS

Liquidity Risk

  • Defining liquidity risk
  • Types of liquidity
  • Consequences of failing to manage liquidity
  • Sources of liquidity
  • Measuring liquidity
  • Stress testing methods
  • Managing liquidity
  • Liquidity risk regulation
    • Basel II
    • Basel III

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Asset and Liability Management and Other Risks

  • Understanding Asset and Liability Management
  • ALCOs and Treasury functions
  • Banking book vs. Trading book
  • Interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB)
  • Measuring and managing IRRBB
    • Contractual vs. behavioral assumptions
    • Stress testing
  • Other risk categories

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Supervision and Disclosure

  • Understanding supervision and disclosure
  • Home and host supervisory cooperation
  • The Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
  • Supervision and disclosure under Basel frameworks
  • Changes introduced by Basel III

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Defining Enterprise Risk Management

  • What is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?
  • Benefits of ERM
  • The ERM process
  • The risk management function
  • Portfolio management
  • New product development
  • Basel Committee guidance
  • Commonly adopted frameworks

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Integrated Risk Management

  • Integrating risks across the bank
  • Risk committees
  • Risk policies
  • Risk recognition and assessment
  • Aggregating risks across risk types
  • Economic capital
  • Interactions between different risk types

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Corporate Governance

  • Defining corporate governance
  • Identifying stakeholders and their conflicts of interest
  • Benefits of effective corporate governance
  • Development of corporate governance: Cadbury, Walker, and Hicks reports
  • External perspectives on Corporate Governance (rating agencies, regulators)

Case study: Can a bank be “Too big to manage”?

Best Practices in Corporate Governance

  • Corporate structures
  • The role of non-executive directors
  • Techniques and strategies
  • Committees and management practices
  • Communication strategies
  • The role of senior management
  • Internal framework of Corporate Governance
  • OECD and Basel guidance

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Risk Governance

  • Risk management governance
  • Cultivating a culture of risk awareness
  • Implementing a risk culture
  • Risk management committees
  • Governance, risk, and compliance integration

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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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