Liquidity Risk and Bank Performance During Crises Masterclass
Why banks with weak liquidity underperform in crises — and the Basel III-aligned framework, stress testing and audit discipline that prevent it.
Format
Classroom · Live Virtual
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Liquidity creation is a bank’s core function and its most dangerous one. The subprime crisis made the point: banks carrying higher liquidity risk suffered worse stock performance, cut credit production harder and paid more for deposits — which is why the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision imposed its two liquidity regulations. This masterclass builds a practical framework for implementing liquidity risk management in banks and financial institutions, works through the Basel III liquidity standards and the difficulty of adopting them in a live banking environment, and equips participants to manage the balance sheet from the liquidity perspective or audit it. The cohort leaves with the tools to embed a liquidity stress-testing framework and carry its results into decision-making.
What you will do
Who attends
- Risk, treasury and capital management teams
- ALM, ALCO and ICAAP/ILAAP professionals
- Finance, accounting and financial control functions
- Bank supervisors and auditors
- Business heads and recovery and crisis management teams
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Liquidity risk and bank performance
- Liquidity creation as core function and core risk
- Evidence from the subprime crisis
- Why the Basel Committee imposed two liquidity regulations
II.The framework
- Implementing liquidity risk management in banks and FIs
- Basel III liquidity standards in a live banking environment
- Limits of traditional measures like the current and quick ratios
III.Crisis management
- Early recognition through key risk indicators
- Contingency funding plans that activate
- Establishing the treasury function and a risk management strategy
IV.Governance, stress and audit
- Liquidity governance, forecasting and stress testing
- Optimising the balance sheet for liquidity purposes
- Internal and external audit of the liquidity framework
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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