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Basel ii Certification and Training
 
Basel ii Certification and Training
Become a Certified Basel ii Professional (CBiiPro)

Certified Basel ii Professional (CBiiPro) Distance Learning and Online Certification Program
The Cost: US$ 297
What is included in this price:

A. The official presentations we use in our instructor-led classes (430 slides)

B. Up to 3 Online Exams

C. Personalized Membership Certificate printed in full colour.
Processing, printing, packing and posting to your office or home.
 
D. The additional official presentations we use in our Basel ii (instructor-led) classes in the countries of the European Union (395 slides). The Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) is the common framework for the implementation of Basel ii in European Union.

To learn more:
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Course Title
Basel II – Pillar 2
The Supervisory Review & Evaluation Process (SREP)
and the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
Implementation and Compliance Training
2 days
 
Overview:
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has identified four key principles that underpin Pillar 2:
 
1. Institutions must have a process for assessing their overall capital adequacy in relation to their risk profile and a strategy for maintaining their capital levels - Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, ICAAP
 
2. Supervisors must review the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process, ICAAP and take supervisory action if they are not satisfied with the results of this process - Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process, SREP
 
3. Supervisors must expect institutions to operate above the minimum requirements  - and should have the ability to require them to hold capital in excess of the minimum.
 
4. Supervisors should seek to intervene at an early stage to prevent capital from falling below the minimum levels required to support the risk characteristics of a particular institution and should require rapid remedial action if capital is not maintained or restored.
 
 
Objectives:
The seminar has been designed to provide with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, make decisions and work for the Second Pillar of Basel II.
 
 
Target Audience:
This course is intended for managers and professionals from Banks, Financial Institutions, Multinational Corporations, Supervisory Agencies. 

This course is highly recommended for: 

  • Directors, Managers and Professionals involved in Basel ii (decision making and implementation)
  • Risk and Compliance Officers
  • Legal Counsels
  • Strategic Planners
  • Analysts
  • Process Owners
  • Network, System and Security Administrators
  • Auditors
  • IT, Security and Management Consultants
 
 
Duration:
2 Days, 09:00 to 17:00.
 
Course Synopsis:
 
  • Second Pillar: The two tier process
  • The internal assessment - the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
  • The evaluation of the Assessment - the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP)
  • Risks that are not adequately covered by Pillar 1
  • Enhancing the link between risk profile, risk management systems and capital
 
  • The Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
  • The firm’s opinion and evidence of its internal capital adequacy assessment
  • Structure of ICAAP
  • Corporate governance elements
  • The obligation to conduct an ICAAP
  • Processes, strategies and systems used in ICAAP
  • Documenting the ICAAP
  • Review of the ICAAP
  • The proportionality principle
  • Assumptions, methodology, coverage and outcome of the bank’s ICAAP
  • Group/parent ICAAPs
  • The framework from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) - a model around the world
  • The 11 ICAAP High Level Principles
  • Templates, Examples and Case Studies
 
  • The Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP)
  • The supervisor’s  review and evaluation of the firm’s risk profile and the adequacy and reliability of the firm’s ICAAP
  • Is there sufficient capital to support all material risks?
  • Principles & Key Components of the SREP
  • The supervisory  review of the group/parent ICAAPs
  • The Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) as part of the wider Supervisory Review Process
  • The framework from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS)
  • The 11 SREP High Level Principles
 
  • The Basel ii / Pillar ii challenges
  • A. Technical
  • B. Organisational
  • C. Regulatory
  • Home and host supervisors
  • Synchronising Pillar 2 work across borders
  • Communicating home and hosts’ Pillar 2 assessments
  • Pillar 2 in the EU - The Capital Requirements Directive
  • Pillar 2 in the USA
  • Pillar 2 in countries around the world. Interesting differences
  • Regulatory Arbitrage: Using Pillar 2 as an advantage for the country
  • Using Pillar 2 as an advantage for the financial firm
  
 
 
Course Title
Basel II – Pillar 3 after the global crisis
Implementation and Compliance Training
2 days 
Overview:
According to the Bank of International Settlements, markets contain disciplinary mechanisms that can reinforce the efforts of supervisors by rewarding banks that manage risk effectively and penalising those whose risk management is inept or imprudent.
 
Market discipline, however, can only work if market participants have access to timely and reliable information which enables them to assess a bank’s activities and the risks inherent in those activities.
 
The purpose of Pillar 3 - market discipline - is to complement the operation of minimum capital requirements (Pillar 1) and the supervisory review process (Pillar 2). 
 
Transparency has become much more important after the current global market crisis. Financial firms must disclose more information so as to allow all stakeholders to make informed judgments as to whether the bank is meeting international standards and is acting in their best interests.
 
The supervisors, the investors, the credit rating agencies, the journalists and the analysts to name only some of the stakeholders, want to receive frequent, relevant and meaningful information regarding the risk profile, the management and the capital adequacy of every institution.
 
Objectives:
The seminar has been designed to provide with the knowledge and skills needed to understand, make decisions and work for the Third Pillar of Basel II.
 
Target Audience:
This course is intended for managers and professionals from Banks, Financial Institutions, Multinational Corporations, Supervisory Agencies.
 
This course is highly recommended for:
 
  • Directors, Managers and Professionals involved in Basel ii (decision making and implementation)
  • Investor Relations Managers
  • Risk and Compliance Officers
  • Legal Counsels
  • Strategic Planners
  • Analysts
  • Process Owners
  • Network, System and Security Administrators
  • Auditors
  • IT, Security and Management Consultants
 
Duration:
2 Days, 09:00 to 17:00.
 
Course Synopsis:
 
  • Pillar 3: The project
  • Scope of application of Pillar 3 disclosure requirements
  • The formal policy to comply with the disclosure requirements
  • The policies for assessing the appropriateness of disclosures, including their verification and frequency
  • Interaction with accounting disclosures
  • Materiality
  • Frequency
  • Proprietary and confidential information
  • Appropriate medium and location
  • Application of the proportionality principle
  • Supervisory actions in the absence of proper disclosures
  • General disclosure principle
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Disclosures
  • Capital, Capital structure, Capital Adequacy
  • Risk exposure and assessment
  • Credit risk
  • Counterparty credit risk
  • Securitisation
  • Market risk
  • Interest rate risk in the banking book
  • Operational risk
  • Equities  
  • Examples and Case Studies
  • Templates
 
  • Pillar 3 around the world
  • Home and Host Countries: The Pillar 3 challenges
  • Pillar 3 at the top consolidated level of the banking group
  • Application for significant subsidiaries
  • The waiver allowing countries to exempt credit institutions from the full or partial application of the disclosure requirements
  • Pillar 3 in the EU - The Capital Requirements Directive
  • COPER and Pillar 3 - Defining a COmmon REPorting framework under the European Union Capital Requirements.
  • Pillar 3 in the USA
  • Pillar 3 in countries around the world. Interesting differences
  • Regulatory Arbitrage: Using Pillar 3 as an advantage for the country
  • Using Pillar 3 as an advantage for the financial firm
 
 
 
 
Our Policy
 
A. In-House Training
Fixed fees, fixed terms. You know the exact final cost. Everything is included in this price (expenses, flights, tax etc.).

For training in most major cities of Europe, Middle East and America:
 
US$ 13,800 for 3 days and US$ 2,000 for each additional day
 
This is the final cost. This fee includes tax, expenses, hotels, flights etc.
50% due 20 days before the first day of the class / event and 50% due the last day
 
 
B. Open Classes
Excellent Courses, Exceptional Venues
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We are proud to have the legal assistance of John J. Maalouf, Senior Partner of the Firm, a globally recognized expert that has been ranked as one of the Top 10 International Trade & Finance Lawyers in the United States for the past 4 years in a row.
 
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