## Bank Restructuring and Resolution

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**Canonical URL:** [Bank Restructuring and Resolution](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2019/brct19-15)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 19.15
- Location: Dalian, China
- Dates: September 23-27, 2019 (1 week)
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Chinese

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### Overview
- Training Program presented by the IMF's Legal and Monetary and Capital Markets Departments.
- Invitation: Session No.: CT 19.15.
- Location: Dalian, China.
- Date: September 23-27, 2019 (1 week).
- Primary Language: English.
- Interpretation Language: Chinese.

### Target Audience and Qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - Mid- to senior-level staff from the People's Bank of China and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission with responsibility for supervision, resolution, and the operation of financial safety nets.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, finance, accounting or law, or have equivalent experience in these fields.

### Course Description — major themes and topics
- Institutional framework and effective crisis preparedness:
  - agencies' roles and responsibilities; interagency coordination; capacity building; and communications.
- Identification and supervision of weak banks:
  - common causes of banking problems and how to identify them; tools and strategies for identifying problem banks; early intervention tools; and role of recovery planning.
- Designing effective resolution regimes:
  - objectives; resolution authorities and their mandates; triggers for initiating resolution proceedings; resolution powers and safeguards; treatment of financial contracts; role of valuations in resolution; legal remedies and judicial action; and resolution funding mechanisms.
- Bank resolution in practice:
  - assessing systemic importance and the economic impact of bank failures; resolving systemic and non-systemic institutions; bank intervention and liquidation procedures; role of deposit insurance agency and benefits of depositor preference; resolution planning; operational continuity in resolution; and cross-border resolution issues.
- Recapitalizing banks with public funds outside of resolution:
  - rationale for recapitalizing banks with public funds; good practices for effective recapitalization strategies; recapitalization instruments; and financing considerations.

### Course Objectives — competencies on completion
- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
  - explain the key building blocks of effective crisis preparedness;
  - identify weak banks and develop strategies for dealing with such institutions;
  - benchmark their national bank resolution frameworks against international good practices;
  - identify the main elements of effective resolution strategies, differentiated between systemically important and non-systemic institutions;
  - explain good practices for bank recapitalization and the role of recapitalization programs in crisis management strategies.

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## References

- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2019/brct19-15_