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Risk Management in Banking

A practical professional programme focused on risk management in banking, designed to strengthen financial capability, analytical judgement and organisational performance.

Type
Specialist
Level
Advanced
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Risk Management in Banking develops an integrated understanding of the major risks faced by banking institutions and the governance and control mechanisms used to manage them.

The programme examines credit, market, liquidity, operational and compliance risks and shows how these risks interact with capital, profitability and banking strategy.

Participants learn how risk appetite, limits, controls, monitoring and escalation contribute to sound banking governance and resilience.

Objectives

  • Understand the principal risk categories in banking.

  • Develop awareness of banking risk governance and risk appetite.

  • Assess the interaction between risk, capital and profitability.

  • Understand core approaches to risk measurement and monitoring.

  • Strengthen risk-control and escalation awareness.

Learning outcomes

  • Identify major banking risk categories and their sources.

  • Explain the purpose of risk appetite and risk limits.

  • Assess basic credit, market, liquidity and operational risks.

  • Interpret risk indicators and escalation requirements.

  • Evaluate banking activities from an integrated risk perspective.

Who it is for

  • Banking risk professionals.

  • Credit and lending professionals.

  • Banking operations managers.

  • Internal audit and compliance professionals.

  • Managers requiring an integrated understanding of banking risk.

Programme modules

1. Banking Risk Framework
  • Nature of banking risk

  • Risk governance

  • Risk appetite

  • Three lines of responsibility

2. Credit Risk
  • Borrower default risk

  • Portfolio credit risk

  • Credit concentration

  • Credit monitoring

3. Market Risk
  • Interest-rate risk

  • Foreign-exchange risk

  • Price risk

  • Market-risk indicators

4. Liquidity Risk
  • Funding liquidity

  • Cash-flow mismatches

  • Liquidity buffers

  • Stress considerations

5. Operational and Compliance Risk
  • Process failures

  • People and systems risk

  • Fraud and control

  • Compliance and conduct risk

6. Integrated Risk Monitoring
  • Risk indicators

  • Limits and thresholds

  • Risk reporting

  • Escalation and management action

Methodology

The programme combines banking-risk frameworks, risk scenarios, case analysis and monitoring examples. Participants assess common banking activities and consider the appropriate controls, limits and management responses.

Assessment

Assessment includes banking-risk scenarios and a final integrated case requiring participants to identify material risks, assess controls and recommend appropriate management actions.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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