- Mandate
- № 02
- Sector
- Banking & Financial Services
- Region
- Africa
- Discipline
- Recovery & resolution planning
Recovery and resolution plans that stood up to the supervisor — twice
Two African banks
“A recovery plan is not a document. It is an argument the board must win under stress.”
The record shows
- Compliant
- BRRP reviewed, strengthened and presented to the supervisor
- 2
- African banks now running board-owned recovery and resolution plans
The dossier
The brief
Resolution regimes written for global banks after 2008 have reached African jurisdictions — and boards are discovering that a Bank Recovery and Resolution Plan is not a document you buy, it is a case you must be able to argue: which options restore capital and liquidity under real stress, how fast they execute, and who owns each trigger. A Central African bank had a plan that needed to survive supervisory presentation; a second African bank needed to build its plan — and the capability behind it — largely from the ground up.
The work
For the Central African bank, BIZENIUS reviewed the existing plan line by line, strengthened the recovery options and their financial logic, and worked with the team on the presentation itself — the plan went in front of the supervisor fully compliant. For the second bank, we trained the team on the discipline first, then built and improved the plan alongside them.
What stands
Two institutions now hold recovery and resolution plans their boards can defend — one presented to the supervisor fully compliant, one built with the team that maintains it. Both survive the only test that matters for a BRRP: supervisory scrutiny.
Run the same arc
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