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
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Sequence improvements to cooperative microfinance partnerships so that each step makes the next one easier.
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Build the control framework around cooperative microfinance partnerships that an examiner would accept.
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Review the contractual and legal exposure created by cooperative microfinance partnerships.
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Integrate cooperative microfinance partnerships into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
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Price cooperative microfinance partnerships to reflect the risk actually being taken.
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Validate the assumptions inside any model supporting cooperative microfinance partnerships.
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Handle the trade-offs in cooperative microfinance partnerships between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Who Should Attend
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Risk managers responsible for cooperative microfinance partnerships.
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Anyone whose accountability for cooperative microfinance partnerships exceeds their current formal training in it.
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Board risk committee members overseeing cooperative microfinance partnerships.
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Risk managers assessing the exposure created by cooperative microfinance partnerships.
