Fundamentals of Risk Management (FoRM) & Financial Services Masterclass
The four families of financial risk — market, credit, liquidity and interconnected — with measurement and mitigation methods practised through hands-on, real-life exercises.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Financial risks rarely arrive one at a time; they interact, change and escalate — and a team fluent in only one category misses the compound event. This masterclass covers the four categories of financial risk — market, credit, liquidity and interconnected — with the terminology, measurement methods and mitigation techniques for each, practised through hands-on exercises that replicate real-life risk situations. The programme is anchored in the financial services sector: tools such as RCSA, the significant role regulation plays in risk management, and the behavioural and organisational biases that distort risk decisions. The cohort finishes with a working command of the toolkit and its limits.
What you will do
Who attends
- Risk, treasury and capital management teams
- ALM, ALCO and credit risk professionals
- Finance, accounting and financial control staff
- Portfolio managers, corporate treasurers, dealers and investment managers
- Bank supervisors, auditors and financial analysts
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.The risk taxonomy
- The four categories: market, credit, liquidity and interconnected risk
- Risk terminology and concepts
- How risks interact, change and escalate
II.Measurement and mitigation
- Measurement methods by risk category
- Mitigation methods and when each applies
- Appropriateness, reliability and limitations of the tools
III.Practice
- Hands-on exercises replicating real risk situations
- Financial-services tools such as RCSA
- Behavioural and organisational biases in risk decisions
IV.Regulation and trends
- The role of regulation in financial services risk management
- Recent trends across corporate and financial sectors
- Emerging practices and industry developments
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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One request — the full agenda, the faculty and the next cohort dates, sent personally by the admissions team.