Core Elements of Banking Supervision - An Overview and Regional Perspectives

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Target audience: Banking supervisors from supervisory authorities from SARTTAC member Countries.
Qualifications: To have experience in banking supervision.

The training program delivered in-person by SARTTAC will cover a range of issues pertaining to the supervision of the banking sector including cross country regulatory and supervisory frameworks.
Vital risk categories addressed: credit, liquidity and operational risk.
Recent banking turmoil: the course discusses perspectives and lessons drawn from the recent turmoil in the US and Swiss banking sectors, highlighting the importance of ensuring banks have sound internal governance and risk management.
The course emphasizes that failures in internal governance and risk management are a common theme underpinning recent events and many past crises.
Medium-term systemic threats covered:
- Climate-related financial risks.
- Digitalization of finance.
The course frames climate-related financial risks and digitalization as "perhaps the most existential medium-term threats to the global banking system."
Focus: priority areas that both banks and supervisors should be focusing on now and going forward.

Objective: Improve supervisory capacity in the region.
Learning approach: Some lectures but will mostly rely on hands-on experience and case studies to reinforce participant understanding.