Building Central Bank Digital Currency Issuance Strategies

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to central bank digital currency.

📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

The audit trail behind central bank digital currency matters as much as the decision itself. Capital, liquidity and reputation are all exposed by weak handling of digital currency. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this part of financial and banking practice in their own setting. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place central bank digital currency among the areas with the widest performance spread. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to the wider financial and banking practice agenda in an order their organisation can absorb. Participants who influence digital currency without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. It treats central bank digital currency as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. Buying a tool rarely fixes digital currency; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this part of financial and banking practice sustainable.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Sequence improvements to central bank digital currency so that each step makes the next one easier.

02

Document decisions about digital currency in a form that remains useful after the people change.

03

Plan the remediation route when a weakness in central bank digital currency is identified.

04

Assess the capital and liquidity implications of digital currency.

05

Document the approval chain for exceptions to policy on central bank digital currency.

06

Build a concise control framework for digital currency that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

07

Review the contractual and legal exposure created by central bank digital currency.

Who Should Attend

01

Financial technology and change staff modernising central bank digital currency.

02

Board risk committee members overseeing digital currency.

03

Officers preparing reports on central bank digital currency for boards or oversight committees.

04

Quality staff verifying that digital currency performs as designed.

05

Regulatory reporting analysts covering central bank digital currency.

06

Treasury and asset-liability staff managing digital currency.

Course Modules

01

Central bank digital currency: risk appetite, limits and policy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Evidencing that central bank digital currency worked as designed

  • Assess the capital consumed by central bank digital currency under current and stressed conditions.
  • Confirm that reporting on digital currency reaches the people who can act.
  • Set escalation thresholds for central bank digital currency that work out of hours.
  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating digital currency operated as designed.

Session 2Reporting digital currency so the reader can act on it

  • Set early warning indicators for central bank digital currency with defined action thresholds.
  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by digital currency.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on central bank digital currency is complete, timely and reconciled.
  • Agree the smallest change to digital currency that would be visibly useful.
02

Digital currency: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Comparing digital currency with recognised practice

  • Agree who signs off central bank digital currency and record that they did.
  • Translate the appetite for digital currency into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about central bank digital currency.
  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of digital currency.

Session 2What digital currency does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to central bank digital currency.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates digital currency is under control.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether central bank digital currency is improving.
  • Review whether digital currency is aligned with the objectives of the business line.
03

Digital currency: regulatory obligation and supervisory expectation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reading the current state of digital currency honestly

  • Prepare the summary of central bank digital currency that senior management will read.
  • Check the accounting treatment applied to digital currency against current standards.
  • Rehearse the briefing on central bank digital currency that would follow an incident.
  • State the risk appetite for digital currency as a number, not an adjective.

Session 2Making central bank digital currency work when resources are constrained

  • Reduce the variation in how central bank digital currency is carried out between teams.
  • Identify single points of dependency in digital currency and reduce them.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside central bank digital currency.
  • Check that records of digital currency answer the questions likely to be asked.
04

Digital currency: reporting that supports a decision

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Stress scenarios for digital currency that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Confirm reporting on central bank digital currency reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in digital currency.
  • Benchmark the organisation's central bank digital currency against comparable operations.
  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in digital currency.

Session 2What a supervisor will ask about digital currency, and in what order

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of central bank digital currency current.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to digital currency are current.
  • Identify the key controls over central bank digital currency and who tests them.
  • Review the pricing of digital currency against the risk being assumed.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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