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Business Continuity & Scenario Planning for Banks & Financial Institutions Training Course
This training course teaches you practical methods to deal with business continuity and scenario planning in the banking/ financial institution environment.
Business Continuity & Scenario Planning for Banks Course overview
This is an intensive course on Business Continuity and Scenario Planning focused on the banking/ financial institution environment.Business Continuity Planning is the process through which an organisation ensures the maintenance or recovery of operations, including services to customers, when faced with disruptive events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error or terrorism.
The course includes 6 detailed case studies and a heavily interactive section on developing effective scenarios.
This course complies with international best practice in the field of Business Continuity Planning and takes cognizance of changes taking place around the globe such as the emerging British Code of practice and Specification for business continuity management (BS 25999).
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Understanding risk, knowing and understanding the basics of:- The theory of risk.
- Environmental risk factors - including but not limited to systems, location, and changes in the environment.
- The business unit¡¦s/ industry's critical processes and interdependencies to other business/industry units.
- Technology and its application within the business unit/industry.
- Bank policies and procedures and their implementation within the business unit/industry.
Identifying potential risks and their impact on the business unit/industry and the industry using Scenario Planning & Other Techniques:
- Scenarios based on a likelihood occurrence over a ten-year span and are examined on the basis of high, medium, and low probability of occurrence.
- All potential risk factors are identified and documented for each critical process within the business unit/industry.
- All possible scenarios are identified and documented to establish the risks to the business unit/industry.
- A business impact analysis is performed and documented to rate the impact of each scenario on the business.
- Priorities in terms of the business impact analysis are determined and documented to determine which functions need to be resumed first in the event of a disaster.
- The order of resuming business processes are identified and documented, while taking into account internal and external dependencies between processes.
Developing and implementing business continuity strategies & plans:
- Strategies are formulated to address identified risks. Strategies include but are not limited to, mitigation, avoidance, elimination, and acceptance.
- Strategies are explained, documented and agreed with senior line management in terms of bank policy.
- Business continuity plans are developed and documented for the agreed upon strategies in terms of bank policy.
- Business continuity plans are implemented within the specified business areas. Implementation includes but is not limited to preparation, procurement, component testing.
- Business continuity plans are communicated to all relevant stakeholders.
- Plans are distributed and stored.
Testing and monitoring business continuity plans:
- Business continuity plans are regularly reviewed and tested against predefined test criteria in terms of bank policy.
- Business continuity plans are regularly updated to reflect changes in the business processes or the environment.
- Post-event analysis is performed after every incident that caused the activation of the business continuity plan. Post-event analysis includes but is not limited to root cause analysis, how to prevent a similar occurrence.
Reports are submitted on a regular basis in terms of bank policy. Reports include but are not limited to status, incident, and management reports.
Business Continuity Planning as it relates to Systematically Important Payment Systems (SIPS)
Case studies
Who should attend?
This course intended for Executive Management, Senior Personnel and Operational Staff whom are responsible to ensure that business continues in their respective business unit/division/branch/industry infrastructure in the event of any emergency, unexpected or extensive disruptive circumstances.
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or call us at: (+852) 2273-4393Why Ethan Hathaway training courses?
- Practical. Learn from experienced and active industry practitioners and what's being practiced by your peers.
- Applicable. Apply what you learn in your job and your career
- Specially designed courses by industry active experts for industry practitioners
- Quality Control. Each expert instructor is interviewed and vetted through our senior management and our 5-point instructor criteria.
- Valuable. Earn more revenue or save your organisation from monetary loss. You and your organisation will quickly earn back your investment on the course fee and more
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- Clear. Turning complex concepts into easy to understand concepts
- Limited seats - each session is limited to between 18-25 seats
What do you receive from an Ethan Hathaway training course?
- You gain knowledge and skills that make you valuable to your company and your career
- Instruction by industry experts
- Course notes and reference package
- Daily lunch, snacks and refreshments
- Certificate of completion
- Meeting your industry peers
- Ask questions relevant to your job
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Your course instructor
Richard Barr:
Richard holds a B.S. in International Business Administration from San Jose State University in California. His professional experience spans 19 years, 5 of which were spent with Wells Fargo Bank. Another 5 were spent honing his global banking skills, when Richard was intimately involved with International Trade Finance, Real Time Gross Settlement and Cross Border Banking. The past 9 years have been in the private and high-tech sectors providing high-level consulting services, business analysis, project management and training to a wide range of banking clientele across the globe. He has spent extensive time servicing a diversity of "financial institutional" clients, in South Africa, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Greece, Bermuda, Malawi, United Kingdom and across North America. Clients that Richard and Citadel Advantage have dealt with such notable firms as AIB Bank, Eurobank, ABSA Bank, CitiBank, Swedbank, INDEbank, IBM, Montran and Fundtech, as well as many others. Richard has also filled the role of advisor to central banks on payment systems and technical payments issues. Furthermore, key staff from the Bank of England, South African Reserve Bank, Central Bank of Ireland and Bank of Portugal who have attended training sessions presented by Richard.
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