Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) & Sustainable Financing Masterclass
ESG as a financial discipline rather than a marketing exercise — data, credit risk, regulation and the decisions banks and investors must defend to their own boards.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
Upcoming sessions
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ESG has moved from the annual report’s back pages to the centre of how regulators, investors, customers and employees judge a bank — yet the data behind it remains patchy and the risk discipline immature. This masterclass treats ESG as finance: how sustainability links to financial decision-making, how ESG-related issues translate into credit risk, and how to work around the quality problems in ESG, SDG and CO2 datasets. Drawing on case studies of what banks and asset managers did to protect clients through the COVID-19 crisis — a live rehearsal for ESG shocks — the cohort works through ESG risk analysis, company performance assessment from public information, and supervisory climate stress tests.
What you will do
Who attends
- Portfolio, asset and fund managers
- Credit analysts, ratings advisors and credit risk professionals
- Financial regulators and banking supervisors
- Compliance, governance and front-office teams
- Investment and commercial bankers
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.ESG and the finance link
- What ESG is and its relevance to financial decision-making
- Key environmental, social and governance issues
- How stakeholders influence corporate ESG performance
II.ESG data and its limits
- ESG datasets, reporting gaps and the future of sustainable finance
- Quality issues in ESG, SDG and CO2 data — and how to overcome them
- Assessing ESG performance from publicly available information
III.ESG risk management
- Managing ESG-related risks, especially credit risk
- Analysing ESG risks and opportunities in the portfolio
- Lessons from COVID-19 for coping with ESG shocks
IV.Climate scenarios and supervision
- Potential climate impacts and the risk management tools that address them
- Simplified transition risk scenario analysis
- Supervisory climate risk stress tests
- Key considerations for companies and investors
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.
How do I secure a seat on a banking programme?
Apply for a seat or request the brochure from the programme page. A senior practitioner — not a sales team — responds within one business day, and the brochure arrives with that reply. BIZENIUS runs on enquiry: there is no online checkout.
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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