Institute of Banking

Who is this programme for?

The Professional Diploma in Advanced Banking Risk Management is a specialist risk management programme specifically designed for senior risk and compliance professionals who are working in senior risk management or related roles in banking, financial institutions or providing risk management advisory services to banks.

It covers a broad technical curriculum encompassing the key conceptual foundations of banking risk management and it will enable participants to think strategically in order to manage the key risks in accordance with the bank’s competitive advantages and risk appetite.

This programme is designed for:

•Banking and financial institutions’ senior risk and compliance professionals who are members of the bank risk committees and related roles including, but not limited to, governance, risk, regulatory and liquidity committees

•Banking, financial and regulatory institutions’ senior risk and compliance professionals who are working in risk and compliance roles including:

•Compliance
•Credit review
•Capital and credit modelling
•Conduct risk
•Asset and liability management
•Market risk
•Operational risk
•Internal audit
•Legal
•Finance
•Technology
•Change management

•Risk professionals working in the Central Bank of Ireland, National Treasury Management Agency, accountants, business consultants, lawyers and other professionals who provide risk management advisory services.

This programme will support your professional development and provide you with:

•An internationally recognised university qualification at master’s degree level from University College Dublin.

•A globally recognised professional award from PRMIA who are globally recognised as a leading educator of risk management.

•At the strategic level, an understanding of the sources and nature of the key risks inherent in the banking model and the inter-relationships between those risks, the bank’s competitive advantage, capital requirements, regulatory requirements and customer imperatives.

•An understanding of corporate and risk governance and its relevance within the overall business context including global best practice governance standards.

•The current global best practice risk management approaches used by banks to identify, measure, mitigate and manage these risks in an enterprise-wide risk context.

•The technical risk skills and knowledge to critically evaluate and implement practical solutions to the key risk challenges facing banks’ senior management teams.

•An understanding of the regulatory imperatives that drive risk management in banking and an understanding of what regulators are seeking to achieve.