Bank Risk Management

Evaluate the impact of current trends and influences on the types of risk to which banks are exposed due to the nature of their activities, and the implications of emerging risks for effective risk management.

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Evaluate the impact of current trends and influences on the types of risk to which banks are exposed due to the nature of their activities, and the implications of emerging risks for effective risk management;

• Assess the extent that regulatory responses to bank failures and financial crises have been effective in improving bank risk management;

• Assess the ways in which banks manage a range of key risks;

• Critically reflect on the extent to which adoption of a holistic approach to risk management is effective in measuring, monitoring and mitigating risks to which a bank is exposed;

• Critically assess the ways in which best practice in risk management could be applied to build and embed an effective risk culture;

• Formulate a view on what the bank of the future may look like and the implications for bank risk management.