What You’ll Learn

  • Understand how banking regulation, supervision, and ICAAP/SREP shape capital management
  • Integrate capital planning into budgeting, strategy, and risk appetite frameworks
  • Apply cost of capital and risk-adjusted performance metrics across business lines
  • Optimise capital allocation, portfolio efficiency, and RWA consumption
  • Embed capital considerations into pricing, customer profitability, and business decisions
  • Design and interpret stress testing to support capital buffers and ICAAP
  • Navigate governance structures, including boards, committees, and control functions
  • Assess the impact of Basel IV and evolving regulatory requirements on strategy
  • Understand securitisation, asset optimisation, and capital efficiency tools
  • Leverage AI and data-driven approaches in customer and portfolio management
  • Align regulatory requirements with profitability and strategic decision-making

Bank Capital Management: Strategy, Planning and ICAAP best-practice

Course Schedule and Contents and Case Study

Week 1

Introduction and Banking Regulatory Framework

Introduction   

Capital Management in an end to end perspective

  • Capital planning
  • Capital business actions: embedding capital management in business decisions

Regulatory requirements:

  • Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)
  • Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP)

Interlinking of Capital Management to other processes

Banking Regulatory Framework

  • Goal of regulation and difference vs supervision
  • Role of capital and definition
  • Subordinates
  • Regulatory Risk Measurement – Credit: Standard vs Internal rating, by assessing
    • Probability of Default
    • Loss Given default
    • Exposure at Default
  • Regulatory Risk Measurement – Market  Regulatory Risk Measurement – Operational
  • Regulatory ratios: capital, leverage and liquidity
  • Stress Test
    • Definition and Structure
    • Comparison across countries
    • Reverse stress test

Additional subordinates requirements (Total Loss Absorbency Capital, Minimum Regulatory Eligible Liabilities)

Practical Examples

  • calculating RWA of customers: Internal Rating vs. standard approach
  • Worked example and illustration

Case Study: Impact of IFRS16 and IFRS9


Week 2

Starts with Q&A session from week 1

Week 2

Starts with Q&A session from week 1

Banking Supervision & Capital Management Framework

SREP   

  • SREP targets
  • General Framework
  • Outcome
    • Minimum Capital Requirements
  • Other remedial actions
  • On – site inspections
  • Impacts on the bank management

Case Study: how to successfully manage SREP

Capital Management – Part 1: Planning

  • Framework Goal, boundary conditions
  • Budget Process
  • Phases
  • Capital and funding plan
  • Economic and banking scenario
  • Setting capital buffers based on
    • Stress testing
    • benchmarking
    • rating target: shareholders’ vs bondholders’ view
    • profitability trade off
  • Risk Adjusted Profitability KPIs
  • Cost of Capital

Practical Examples:

  • How to calculate cost of capital
  • How to calculate risk adjusted profitability

Week 3

Starts with Q&A session from week 2

Capital Management– Part 2: business capital management

  • Business capital management: overall framework
  • Business Actions
    • stock management: how to manage customer profitability
    • Loan Pricing : a framework based on risk-adjusted return
    • Asset disposal, e.g. real Estate, NPL
  • Links and impacts with other processes
    • Liquidity management
    • Market communication

Focus on securitisation

  • Goals and Drivers of securitisation
  • Securitisation Overview and Key Parties
  • Structuring
  • Cost vs Benefit analysis
  • True Sale vs Synthetic securitisations
  • Evolution of securitisation markets in
    • US
    • EU
    • China

Case Study: How to use AI for customer management


Week 4

Starts with Q&A session from week 3

ICAAP & Basel IV innovation & Banks’ evolution

Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP)

  • Goal of ICAAP
  • General Framework
  • Interaction with Capital Management
  • Core of ICAAP: risk appetite framework
  • Conclusions from stress test outputs: input to the capital buffers and demonstration of regulatory compliance
  • Principles of Governance
    • Corporate bodies and committees: Board vs Managerial ones
    • Roles of bank functions
    • Monitoring & reporting

Basel IV: regulatory framework and bank reaction

  • Main innovations
  • Impacts on Bank management
  • How banks could adapt strategies to the new regulatory framework

Case Study: Basel IV How banks are adapting their business model and practices

Broadening the perspective: evolution of the banking competitive landscape

  • New regulation
  • New actors entering the market: fintech and Private Credit
  • Banks’ competitive advantages

 

  • Discount Structure
  • Super early bird discount
    20% until 17th July 2026

  • Early bird discount
    10% until 21st August 2026

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