Effective Debt Management and Sustainability
Sovereign debt strategy in plain language — raising the required funding at acceptable risk and cost, sustaining debt burdens and managing contingent liabilities.
Format
Classroom · Virtual
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A government that cannot articulate its debt strategy ends up borrowing on the market’s terms rather than its own. Effective debt management means establishing and executing a strategy that raises the required funding, achieves the government’s risk and cost objectives, and serves wider goals such as an efficient market for government securities. This course explains the discipline in user-friendly language — country examples and simple illustrations rather than mathematics. The cohort works through debt sustainability, public debt management in the budgetary context, the facets of external and domestic public borrowing, and the meaning and implications of contingent liability and risk management.
What you will do
Who attends
- Debt managers and practitioners of finance
- Monetary authorities
- Public sector officials responsible for debt management policy and key sovereign asset portfolios
- Senior and mid-level government officials
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Debt management fundamentals
- Strategy: required funding, risk and cost objectives
- Debt management goals beyond the borrowing programme
- Developing an efficient market for government securities
II.Sustainability and the budget
- Debt sustainability issues in depth
- Public debt management in the budgetary context
- Country examples and lessons from experience
III.Borrowing and contingent risk
- Facets of external and domestic public borrowing
- The meaning and implications of contingent liability
- Risk management for the sovereign balance sheet
Frequently asked
What does the debt management and sustainability course cover?
The course covers establishing and executing a debt management strategy that raises required funding at acceptable risk and cost, debt sustainability, public debt management in the budgetary context, the facets of external and domestic public borrowing, contingent liabilities and their risks, and developing an efficient market for government securities.
Is the course heavily mathematical?
No. The discipline is explained in user-friendly language, using country examples and simple illustrations rather than mathematics. That makes it accessible to senior and mid-level government officials and public sector managers, not only quantitative specialists.
Who attends, and can a ministry or central bank commission a private session?
Typical participants are debt managers, monetary authorities, officials responsible for debt management policy and key sovereign asset portfolios, and finance practitioners. BIZENIUS delivers in-house editions tailored to the institution, in English or French; public dates follow a rolling calendar and are confirmed on request, with fees quoted on enquiry.
Who teaches this
Practitioners, not presenters.
Led by practitioners who hold, or have held, the seats this programme prepares you for: group treasurers and heads of asset–liability management, chief risk officers, heads of credit and capital management, and former central-bank supervisors who examined the very frameworks they now teach. Between cohorts the same people advise banks on those frameworks, so what you learn is what is being defended in front of boards and regulators today.
What the bench brings
- Financial modelling, valuation and forecasting
- Treasury products and trading-book management
- Derivatives, market and counterparty risk
- Mergers, acquisitions and transaction models
- Business modelling and scenario design
- Digital wealth and fintech models
Where they have practised
Current and former practitioners — people who hold the seat today alongside those who have held it.
Sectors: Banking & financial services · Professional services · Technology & fintech
Regions: Africa · the Middle East · Europe · Asia · the Americas
How they teach
- Live case studies from real institutions
- Worked exercises on realistic bank data
- Regulator-style challenge sessions
- Group problem-solving on realistic institutional cases
- Knowledge checks and a personal action plan
Cohorts are kept small so every exercise is worked on the participants’ own situations — in person or live virtual.
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