Program  Objective

The objective of the program is to discuss and understand topics of current relevance to senior officers of banks, financial institutions and Reserve Bank of India. This program will cover topics like governance, risk management, fundamentals of derivatives, financial markets, resolution of stressed assets, cyber risk management, etc. The program would also provide the participants a platform to interact and exchange views with the regulators and peers.

Program Highlights

The lead speaker for this program would be Dr. Richard Flavell, who is a well-known risk manager and trainer. He has conducted a series of intensive programmes for senior bankers in India. Dr. Flavell’s approach to training is structured and practical. He has extensive experience and success in teaching both recent entrants to the derivatives markets and risk management, as well as highly experienced technical experts and market participants.

• Corporate Governance
  • Assessing governance effectiveness; State-owned enterprises and governance issues
  • Improving governance – examples of weak and strong governance, what the board and senior management need to do?
• Credit risk management
  • Credit risk and capital - standardized and revised standardized approaches
  • Credit risk management under IFRS 9, Expected credit loss, and implications
• Market risk management
  • Understanding interest rate risk and forex risk
  • Measurement of market risk - Gap analysis, Duration, and VaR concepts
• Fundamentals of Derivatives
  • Interest rate and forex derivatives - Swaps, Futures, and Options
  • Derivatives as a tool for risk management
• Financial markets
  • Overview of financial markets
  • Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF), Repo & OMO
• Asset quality management
  • Recovery and resolution of stressed assets
  • Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, Asset Management Company
• Operational risk - Cyber risk management
  • Cyber threats, attacks/incidents, and impact
  • Cyber security governance model/framework and strategies
  • Cyber risk preparedness by banks
• Current credit crisis and way forward
  • Lessons learnt from the current credit crisis
  • What could be the way forward?