Certified Basel iii Professional CBiiiPro - Distance Learning and Online Certification Program

Certified Basel iii Professional (CBiiiPro)
Objectives:
The seminar has been designed to provide with the knowledge and skills needed to understand the new Basel III framework and to work in Basel III Projects.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for managers and professionals working in Banks, Financial Organizations, Financial Groups and Financial Conglomerates who need to understand the new Basel III requirements, challenges and opportunities. It is also intended for management consultants, vendors, suppliers and service providers working for financial organizations.
This course is highly recommended for:
Managers and Professionals involved in Basel III (decision making and implementation)
Risk and Compliance Officers
Auditors
IT Professionals
Strategic Planners
Analysts
Legal Counsels
Process Owners
Course Synopsis:
What is Basel III?
The Basel III papers
Was Basel II responsible for the market crisis?
Introduction to the Basel III Amendments
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the G20 and the Basel III framework
1. The New Basel III Principles for risk management and corporate governance
The key areas where the Basel Committee believes the greatest focus is necessary
1. Board practices
2. Senior management
3. Risk management and internal controls
4. Compensation
5. Complex or opaque corporate structures
6. Disclosure and transparency
Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk
The 9 principles
2. The Quality of Capital
The numerator: A strict definition of capital
Limits and Minima
Common Equity Tier 1
Common shares issued by the bank
Additional Tier 1 capital
Tier 2 capital
Investments held by banks in capital instruments of other banks and financial and insurance entities
The corresponding deduction approach and the changes in the business model
Double Gearing and Basel III
Securitisation and Resecuritisation
3. The Risk Weighted Assets
The denominator: Enhanced risk coverage
Understanding securitization
4. The Capital Ratio
In addition to the quality of capital and risk coverage
Calibration
Transition period
5. Global Liquidity Standards
Introduction of global minimum liquidity standards
The Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) that makes banks more resilient to potential short-term disruptions
Stock of high-quality liquid assets
Total net cash outflows
The Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) that addresses longer-term structural liquidity mismatches
Available stable funding (ASF)
Required stable funding (RSF)
Contractual maturity mismatch
Concentration of funding
Available unencumbered assets
LCR by significant currency
Market-related monitoring tools
Transitional arrangements
6. Capital Conservation
Distribution policies that are inconsistent with sound capital conservation principles
Supervisors enforce capital conservation discipline
7. Leverage Ratio
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
8. Countercyclical Capital Buffer
Procyclical or Countercyclical?
The new countercyclical capital buffer
Home / Host Challenges
Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer
Principles underpinning the role of judgement
Principle 1: (Objectives)
Principle 2: (Common reference guide)
Principle 3: (Risk of misleading signals)
Principle 4: (Prompt release)
Principle 5: (Other macroprudential tools)
Jurisdictional reciprocity
Frequency of buffer decisions and communications
Treatment of surplus when buffer returns to zero
Interaction with Pillar 1 and 2
9. Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs)
SIFIs and G-SIFIs
Improvements to resolution regimes
Additional loss absorption capacity
More intensive supervisory oversight
Stronger robustness standards
Peer review
Developments at the national and regional level
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)
Strengthening SIFI supervision
10. Systemically Important Markets and Infrastructures (SIMIs)
The Basel Committee and Financial Stability Board endorse central clearing and trade reporting on OTC derivatives
Derivative counterparty credit exposures to central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs)
11. Risk Modelling, Stress Testing and Scenario Analysis
Capture of systemic risk/ tail events in stress testing and risk modelling
VaR shortcomings: the normality assumption
Need for a strong stress testing programme
Systemic risk capture in banks risk models
12. Stressed Value-at-Risk (S-VaR), Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR), Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA), Wrong-Way Risk
Overview of the new requirements
Stressed Value-at-Risk (S-VaR)
Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR)
Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA)
Wrong-Way Risk
Pillar 2 Amendments: Stress testing
Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision
Use of stress testing and integration in risk governance
Stress testing methodologies
Scenario selection
Principles for sound stress testing practices and supervision
Firm-wide stress testing
15 stress testing principles for banks
6 stress testing principles for supervisors
Recognising the risk-mitigating impact of insurance in operational risk modelling
Insurance industry supervision
Banking supervisors assessment processes
Approval of insurance contracts
Revoking approval for recognising insurance mitigation in capital
Maximum 20 operational risk capital charge reduction
Modelling methodology
Traditional and proposed insurance policies
Criteria for recognising insurance mitigation
Partial insurance modeling
Understanding Supervisory Colleges
Good practice principles on supervisory colleges
Principles for both home and host supervisors
Principle 1: College objectives
Principle 2: College structures
Home supervisors, Host supervisors
Principle 3: Information sharing
Principle 4: Communication channels
Principle 5: Collaborative work
Principle 6: Interaction with the institution
Principle 7: Crisis management
Principle 8: Macroprudential work
Case Study: Committee of European Banking Supervisors, Joint decision on model validation
Basel III for international financial organizations
The Dodd-Frank Act in the USA and the Basel III framework
The Capital Requirements Directives (II, III, IV) of the European Union and the Basel III framework
The Impact of Basel III
Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Retail Banking
Investment banks are primarily affected, particularly in trading and securitization businesses
The new capital rules have a substantial impact on profitability
Banks with insurance subsidiaries
Minority investments after Basel III
Interaction between Solvency II and Basel III
Regulatory Arbitrage after Basel III
Examples and Case Studies
Closing remarks