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 · Live 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
Do these programmes cover the Basel III final reforms and the ICAAP/ILAAP cycle?
Yes. The BIZENIUS banking curriculum is built around the Basel III endgame, ICAAP, ILAAP, IRRBB, IFRS 9 provisioning, stress testing and BCBS 239. Participants leave able to quantify the output floor on their own portfolios, write capital and liquidity documents that withstand supervisory review, and defend the numbers to their board.
Are the programmes adapted to regional supervisors such as SAMA, CBUAE or BCEAO?
Casework is built around supervisory documents rather than textbook theory, and faculty include former practitioners who have sat on both sides of an examination. Programmes address the questions SAMA, CBUAE, BCEAO and other home regulators actually put to the desk, and an in-house edition can be tailored to a single jurisdiction.
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Can a programme run in-house for our bank?
Every BIZENIUS programme can be delivered in-house, tailored to your balance sheet, your regulator and your data, in English or French. Many institutions start with an open cohort, then commission a private edition for the wider team.
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