Banking Supervision

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Target Audience: Mid- to senior level banking supervisors.
Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or finance, be familiar with banking regulation and supervision issues, and be involved in microprudential banking supervision, ideally with effective working experience.

Presented by the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
Presents the fundamentals and goals of risk-based supervision (RBS), its challenges, and factors central to its success.
Uses a mix of lectures and practical applications to cover the main RBS components and steps for implementation.
Provides guidance on using risk-based assessment and rating to help supervisors decide relevant supervisory priorities and early intervention measures to address bank fragilities.
Begins by introducing the RBS approach and challenges for effective implementation of RBS in prudential regulations and supervisory processes.
Focuses on RBS assessment methodologies of banks’ financial soundness, with highlights on governance and risk management frameworks, as well as various risk domains: credit, liquidity, market, and operational.
Refers to existing supervisory bank-rating models for illustration.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Understand the importance and methodology of risk-based banking supervision.
Develop risk-based and forward-looking assessments of banks’ risk profiles that may enable preventive and corrective supervisory action targeting weak banks.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of their country’s approach to risk-based banking supervision and ways to improve early identification of material risks to enhance effective banking supervision.
Incorporate the risk-based approach into supervisory objectives, action plans, organization, and processes.