Building Microfinance Partnerships with Cooperative Societies

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to cooperative microfinance partnerships.

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

Course Overview

Models supporting cooperative microfinance partnerships fail quietly, and usually at the worst moment. Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over the practice within financial and banking practice. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of this aspect of financial and banking practice to standardise and which to leave flexible. The version of cooperative microfinance partnerships described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place this part of financial and banking practice among the areas with the widest performance spread. Every module pairs a short input on the wider financial and banking practice agenda with structured practice on the participant's own material. The level assumes working familiarity with the business line but no prior formal training in cooperative microfinance partnerships. The programme is built to be used, and every section of this aspect of financial and banking practice it covers ends in something applicable. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this strand of financial and banking practice that participants can repeat annually.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Sequence improvements to cooperative microfinance partnerships so that each step makes the next one easier.

02

Build the control framework around cooperative microfinance partnerships that an examiner would accept.

03

Review the contractual and legal exposure created by cooperative microfinance partnerships.

04

Integrate cooperative microfinance partnerships into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

05

Price cooperative microfinance partnerships to reflect the risk actually being taken.

06

Validate the assumptions inside any model supporting cooperative microfinance partnerships.

07

Handle the trade-offs in cooperative microfinance partnerships between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.

Who Should Attend

01

Risk managers responsible for cooperative microfinance partnerships.

02

Anyone whose accountability for cooperative microfinance partnerships exceeds their current formal training in it.

03

Board risk committee members overseeing cooperative microfinance partnerships.

04

Risk managers assessing the exposure created by cooperative microfinance partnerships.

05

Compliance officers overseeing cooperative microfinance partnerships.

06

Treasury and asset-liability staff managing cooperative microfinance partnerships.

Course Modules

01

Cooperative microfinance partnerships: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Escalation and decision rights in cooperative microfinance partnerships

  • Rehearse the briefing on cooperative microfinance partnerships that would follow an incident.
  • Estimate the resource cooperative microfinance partnerships requires to run as designed.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of cooperative microfinance partnerships before proposing changes.
  • Reduce the variation in how cooperative microfinance partnerships is carried out between teams.

Session 2Comparing cooperative microfinance partnerships with recognised practice

  • Set early warning indicators for cooperative microfinance partnerships with defined action thresholds.
  • State the risk appetite for cooperative microfinance partnerships as a number, not an adjective.
  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by cooperative microfinance partnerships.
  • Identify the key controls over cooperative microfinance partnerships and who tests them.
02

Cooperative microfinance partnerships: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What a supervisor will ask about cooperative microfinance partnerships, and in what order

  • Agree who signs off cooperative microfinance partnerships and record that they did.
  • Agree what will be standardised in cooperative microfinance partnerships and what will not.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains cooperative microfinance partnerships to those affected.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside cooperative microfinance partnerships.

Session 2Handling a breach of policy on cooperative microfinance partnerships properly

  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering cooperative microfinance partnerships.
  • List the assumptions in any model supporting cooperative microfinance partnerships and when each was last challenged.
  • Set escalation thresholds for cooperative microfinance partnerships that work out of hours.
  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in cooperative microfinance partnerships.
03

Cooperative microfinance partnerships: measurement, models and their assumptions

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in cooperative microfinance partnerships and what to ignore

  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for cooperative microfinance partnerships.
  • Name a single owner for each element of cooperative microfinance partnerships.
  • Remove steps in cooperative microfinance partnerships that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Confirm reporting on cooperative microfinance partnerships reaches the committee that can act on it.

Session 2Stress scenarios for cooperative microfinance partnerships that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to cooperative microfinance partnerships are current.
  • Check that records of cooperative microfinance partnerships answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Verify six months later that changes to cooperative microfinance partnerships have held.
  • Assess the capital consumed by cooperative microfinance partnerships under current and stressed conditions.
04

Cooperative microfinance partnerships: the control framework and segregation of duties

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What cooperative microfinance partnerships does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Record what was learned when cooperative microfinance partnerships did not go as planned.
  • Prepare the summary of cooperative microfinance partnerships that senior management will read.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around cooperative microfinance partnerships are understood.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on cooperative microfinance partnerships is complete, timely and reconciled.

Session 2Concentration building quietly inside cooperative microfinance partnerships

  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of cooperative microfinance partnerships.
  • Translate the appetite for cooperative microfinance partnerships into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Review the pricing of cooperative microfinance partnerships against the risk being assumed.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to cooperative microfinance partnerships will be introduced.

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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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