Board and executive
For directors and C-suite governing models they did not build and cannot inspect. What to challenge, what to ask for, and what a credible answer sounds like. Short, sharp and framed around governance rather than mathematics.
Academy
Capability that stays after we leave.
Training delivered by the people who build the models — for boards governing models they cannot inspect, for management defending numbers to a regulator, and for the teams running them.
Purpose
Why this exists
A model your team cannot explain is a model your institution does not own.
We have watched capable risk functions inherit methodologies they had no part in choosing, then be asked to defend them to an auditor or a supervisor. The methodology was usually fine. The transfer was not. So we treat training as a discipline in its own right rather than a closing slide, and we teach from the models we actually build.
Audiences
Three tiers
Senior management
For the people who sign the numbers and sit in front of the regulator and the audit committee. Methodology at the level needed to defend a result and direct a team.
Practitioners and risk champions
For the teams who run the models and the systems. Hands-on model build, validation, stress testing and platform operation, in Excel, Python and the platform itself.
Curriculum
Subject areas
IFRS 9
expected credit loss methodology, PD, LGD and EAD estimation, staging and SICR, macroeconomic overlays, and model validation.
Financial risk management
credit, market, liquidity and operational risk.
Basel II, III and IV
proportionate adoption, risk-weighted assets and capital adequacy.
ICAAP and ILAAP
stress testing methodology, behavioural modelling, and building a submission that withstands supervisory review.
Enterprise risk management
frameworks, risk appetite, and benchmarking against ISO 31000 and COSO.
Model risk governance
model inventories, tiering, validation standards and board oversight.
Financial and valuation modelling
Excel-based model construction and review.
Data analytics for risk and finance
Power BI, Python and automation of recurring analysis.
Delivery
Formats
In-house.
Built around your portfolio, your regulator and your models. Delivered at your offices or ours, from a half-day board session to a multi-week practitioner programme.
Open programmes.
Scheduled sessions bringing together risk and finance teams from institutions across the region — useful where the value is partly in the room.
Next step
Tell us who needs to learn what.
Send us the audience and the subject and we will come back with a proposed outline, a duration and a cost.