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Risk Management
Total risk management is the combination of all the elements of risk management into a consistent strategy...
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Training - Commercial Banking
Modern Banking:
5 Days
Course Aim
The aim of this course is to provide a good grasp of both the
basics (the structure and environment of banking) and selected
aspects of the applied economics of the modern banking firm.
The topics covered include financial and credit intermediation,
structure-conduct-performance, bank efficiency, risks of
banking, regulation, technology and innovation.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course participants should be able to:
• Evaluate the impact of the main environmental forces of
change on the strategies and performance of modern global
banks.
• Evaluate critically the empirical evidence related to the
industrial structure of banking and efficiency.
• Appraise the role of banks as risk monitors and managers.
• Understand why banks need regulation and distinguish between
the different types of regulation.
Course Outline
1: Financial and credit intermediation: basic concepts
Transactions costs; agency problems; asymmetric information
and role of banks; genesis of the financial system; functions
of financial intermediaries.
2: ‘Specialness’ of financial intermediaries and role of
central bank
Specialness of financial intermediaries in a changing
environment; central banking; theory of banking clubs.
3: Market structure and bank performance
SCP and relative market power hypotheses;
4. Microeconomics of banks: production process and efficiency
Bank inputs and outputs; scale and scope economies;
X-efficiencies.
5: Main risks of banking
Banks strategic business plan; types of risks in banking;
frameworks for risk management; focus on interest rate risk
and liquidity risk.
6: Credit risk
Banks’ lending function; agency problems; credit analysis;
pricing of loans;
adverse selection; techniques to measure and manage credit
risk.
7: Bank regulation
Rationale for financial regulation; types of regulation; bank
deregulation.
8: Capital adequacy
Functions of capital; objectives of ‘re-regulation’; Basel I
and II.
9: Banking and the EMU
Single market for financial services; EMU and the euro; the
FSAP.
ECB (1999a), European Commission (1999), Gardener et al.
(2001)
10: Technology, financial innovation and globalisation trends
Causes of innovation and technological advances; changes in
the payment
systems and banks’ delivery channels; internet banking.
Course Fees
VAT to be included at the local rate, if applicable. Costs
shown are per delegate inclusive of refreshments, lunches and
seminar materials. Cost of accommodation is not included.
GBP 4000
Certificates of Participation
Certificates of participation are remitted to course
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