Risk-Focused Supervision and Risk Assessment Seminar

1. Overview

To enhance the participants’ analytical and decision-making skills, covering four primary risk categories: credit, operations, market and liquidity. The seminar will focus on processes and techniques for developing a risk assessment in preparation for creating an examination scope and plan the implementation of the examination process that focuses on identified highrisk areas.

2. Main topics

1. Risk-focused supervision principles: skills and responsibilities.
2. Process for identifying and measuring inherent risk for critical risk areas.
3. Examination techniques to review high risk areas identified through the risk assessment process.
4. Identification of material findings of supervisory concern.
5. Credit, Operational, Market, Liquidity and Aggregate Risk Assessment.
6. Credit, Operational and Market/Liquidity Examination Techniques & Modeling.

3. Date and venue

April 1 – 5, 2019. San Salvador, El Salvador.

4. Host Member

Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero

5. Instructor

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FED)

6. Minimum qualification requirements

• The seminar is designed for supervisors with at least 3 years of practical experience in examination of banks; as well as in the core elements of the examination process, such as planning, implementation, and followup.
• Intermediate level of English.

7. Pre-reading material

This seminar has pre-reading materials, which will be sent in advance to the participants.

8. Language

English and Spanish are the official languages for the seminar. Simultaneous interpretation services will be available during the sessions.

9. Application process

1. Request to your training coordinator an access account for the ASBA’s Activities Manager.
2. Once you have your username and password, access the Activities Manager through the following link www.asbaweb.net
3. Complete your profile and personal information.
4. Make your application to the selected course during the registration period.
5. For more information, see the User’s Manual, available at the Annual Training Calendar.

10. Registration Deadline

March 1, 2019.

11. Maximum quota

The seminar is limited to 30 participants who will be selected based on their meeting of the Minimum Qualification Requirements on a first-come firstserved basis.