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Provides an array of professional business and financial training services that stem from improving a corporate's treasury workflow —all the way to efficient, finance training programs.

Course Overview

Knowledge of Basel principle rules is essential for all participants in the banking sector.
This is however a significant challenge both due to their complexity and because they keep changing, thus making it imperative for top management, executives, and professionals to ensure they always have updated knowledge.
The course covers the main changes introduced, since the financial crisis in 2007 / 2008, by both Basel III and Basel IV

Learning Outcome

understand how the main pillars of Basel III and IV, along with some of the calculations are done on a high-level scheme

identify what areas of regulation are changing and in which way, and understand the degree of impact each regulation has on banks’ financial indicators (profitability, liquidity, …etc.)

understand the overall impact of the regulations on the decision-making process and business model

have insights on how much top management will need to change their current processes, monitoring tools, and policies, to comply with the new regulations

Course Outline

  • The Basel III papers
  • Was Basel II responsible for the market crisis?
  • Introduction to the Basel III Amendments


  • SIFIs, G-SIB, and D-SIB
  • Developments at the national and regional level

  • Introduction to global/overall minimum liquidity standards
  • Inflows, outflows, net cash outflows, and the stock of High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA)
  • The Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) that makes banks more resilient to potential short-term disruptions
  • The Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) that addresses longer-term structural liquidity mismatches
  • Required Stable Funding (RSF) vs Available stable funding (ASF) – the different weights

  • Strong Tier 1 risk-based ratios with high levels of on and off-balance sheet leverage
  • Simple, non-risk-based leverage ratio
  • introducing additional safeguards against model risk and measurement error
  • Calculation of the leverage ratio. The January 2014 amendment

  • Credit risk


Who Should Attend

Financial analysts=Risk managers=Compliance officers=Regulators=Auditors and other professionals working in the banking and financial services industry.

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