How does a bank work?
Combining customer business and risk business

Content

Over the three days of the seminar teams of participants manage their bank, define their strategy and try to achieve the best possible shareholder value.

Learning for the real world

• Defining a business strategy using a model bank
• How the general economic framework and the legal framework influence the decision-making process
• Using the mark-to-market method in calculating customer margins
• Calculation of minimum margin, contribution margin costing and evaluation of the success of individual transactions
• Aims and objectives of asset & liability management and interfaces with risk departments
• Basic principles of credit risk management
• Asset & liability management: managing interest rate risk and liquidity risk
• Basic features of the bond and investment funds business
• Optimising the use of risk capital to optimise the risk/return ratio
• Pricing individual transactions in the retail, corporate and institutional segments
• Decision-making in asset & liability management, using swaps to control interest rate risk, using interest rate statistics as a limit system

Cyber*Preparation

• Goals of total bank management
• Separation of customer and risk business
• Legal framework, Basel II
• Bank calculation methods
• Transfer price models
• Asset & liability management
• Credit risk management

Target group

• Staff from branch offices and the retail and corporate desks with responsibility for performance
• Staff involved in controlling and planning activities
• Participants in in-house management training courses
• Specialists seeking an understanding of total bank management and interrelationships