Bank Restructuring and Resolution (BR)
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- Session: CE 26.11
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: December 6-10, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Apply online by October 23, 2026
Target audience
- Mid-level to senior officials in:
- central banks
- regulatory agencies
- supervisory authorities
- ministries of finance
- deposit insurance funds
- other agencies with responsibility for bank supervision, bank resolution, and the operation of financial sector safety nets
Course description — scope and content
- Comprehensive overview of conceptual and operational issues related to restructuring and resolution of weak and failing banks, including:
- identification and supervision of weak banks:
- common causes of banking problems and how to identify them
- early intervention tools and supervisory approaches for dealing with weak banks
- operational preparedness:
- institutional foundations of the financial safety net
- inter-agency coordination
- building blocks of effective resolution regimes:
- guided by the Financial Stability Board’s Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes
- recovery and resolution planning
- initiatives to test operational preparedness
- role of deposit insurance and depositor preference
- crisis containment:
- liquidity support
- government guarantees
- exceptional administrative measures to stop persistent liquidity outflows
- bank restructuring and resolution:
- initiation of resolution proceedings
- resolution options for systemically important and non-systemic banks
- cross-border resolution
- system-wide diagnostics and restructuring strategies
- policy considerations and instruments for public capital support
- dealing with distressed assets:
- market failures and policy reforms
- approaches for resolving nonperforming loans — supervisory policies, insolvency and debt enforcement, distressed asset markets and the role of asset management companies
Course objectives — expected participant outcomes
- Explain the building blocks of crisis preparedness and management.
- Identify weak banks and devise strategies for dealing with them.
- Pinpoint key design features of effective resolution regimes and options for enhancing operational preparedness.
- Identify stabilization options in response to financial panic and design credible strategies for bank restructuring and resolution at an individual and system-wide level.
- Compare options for dealing with distressed assets.
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