Aims:
A 2-day intensive course on business continuity and scenario planning focused on the banking/ financial institution environment with a view to provide banking professionals with a firm foundation of the standards of best practices in the critical area of business continuity planning.
The Basel Accords have raised the profile of operational risk. There are a range of challenges within the accords where financial service firms need to consider a wide range of complex issues including events that have not happened yet. One of the most crucial objectives of management is to learn how to deal with the new requirements with regard to business continuity planning.
Business continuity planning is the process through which an organization ensures the maintenance or recovery of operations, including services to customers, when faced with disruptive events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error or terrorism.
This course includes 3 detailed business continuity case studies and an interactive section on developing effective scenarios.
Business continuity is an ongoing priority for financial industry participants. Acts of terrorism over the past decade in New York, London, Istanbul, Madrid and elsewhere, outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the Avian Flu, and various widespread natural disasters such as the 2011 Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Power Plant Failure, the 2004 Asian Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, have served to heighten that priority by underlining the substantial risk of major operational disruptions to the financial system.
Learning Objectives:
Financial authorities and financial industry participants have a shared interest in promoting the toughness of the financial system to major operational disruptions. This interest is the result of many factors, including:
- The vital role that financial intermediation plays in facilitating and promoting national and global economic activity by providing the means for making and receiving payments, for borrowing and lending, for effecting transactions, for insuring risks, and for raising capital and promoting investment
- The increasing complexity and operational risk across financial systems.
- The concentration of clearing and settlement processes in most financial systems.
- Deepening interdependencies among financial industry participants within and across jurisdictions.
- The recurring pattern of natural disasters or extreme weather conditions.
- The possibility of terrorist or other malicious attacks targeted, directly or indirectly, at the infrastructure of the financial system.
- A strong interest in maintaining public confidence in financial systems.
Participants will be able to identify potential risks and their impact as well as to prepare and implement action plans dealing with the business continuity recovery process in their own institutions as well. A key tool in this process is scenario planning.
Who Should Attend?:
This course intended for executive management, senior personnel and operational staff who are responsible to ensure that business continues in their respective business unit/division/branch/industry infrastructure in the event of any emergency, unexpected or extensive disruptive circumstances. Some of the positions that will benefit include:
- Operations Managers
- Risk Managers
- Internal Auditors
- Business Continuity Practitioners
Advance Preparation: None
Delivery Method: Group-Live
Methodology:
This is a highly interactive course comprised of PowerPoint presentations, case studies, multidirectional discussions and exercises.
Course Outline:
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Registration Process: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Session Start Time: 9:00 AM
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Meet Your Instructor
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Richard Barr Operational Risk & Back Office Specialist Richard Barr , holds a B.S. in International Business Administration from San Jose State University in California. His professional experience spans over 23 years, 5 of which were spent with Wells Fargo Bank. Another 5 were spent honing his global banking skills, when Richard was intimately involved with International Trade Finance, Real Time Gross Settlement and Cross Border Banking. The past 14 years have been in the private and high-tech sectors providing high-level consulting services, business analysis, project management and training to a wide range of banking clientele across the globe. Richard has also filled the role of advisor to central banks on payment systems and technical payments issues. Furthermore, key staff members from the Bank of England, South African Reserve Bank, Central Bank of Ireland, Bank Indonesia, European Central Bank and Bank of Portugal have attended training sessions presented by Richard. |
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- Third Party Vendor Management Lead, JPMorgan Chase
The seminar was very informational and the material is very useful in implementing risk assessment program in organizations.
- Cash Management Operations Assistant Manager, Flushing Bank
Instructor was highly knowledgeable and the subjects were well chosen.
- Audit Supervisor, Flushing Bank
Richard did a great job and topics related to operations risk structures and frameworks were highly useful.
- Manager, Discover Home Loans, Inc.
This was a very informative seminar. The presenter had thorough knowledge on the subject. He was providing good examples on each topic as he went through the program.
- Deposit Operations Manager, AVP, Flushing Bank
It was a good introduction into risk assessment.
- AVP, Risk Management, MB Financial Bank
Richard was very knowledgeable on the topic.
- Assistant Vice President/Branch Operations Team Leader, Flushing Bank
Real world examples discussed during the seminar was beneficial.
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