Building Multi-Currency Financing Strategies for International Organisations

Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run multi-currency financing properly.

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

Course Overview

The audit trail behind multi-currency financing matters as much as the decision itself. Growth built on poorly controlled this area of financial and banking practice reverses faster than it accumulated. Every module pairs a short input on the financial and banking practice discipline with structured practice on the participant's own material. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for multi-currency financing. The programme converts this area of financial and banking practice from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Most organisations already have a policy on the financial and banking practice capability; far fewer can show it working. Participants finish able to explain multi-currency financing to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Applied research in financial and banking practice consistently shows that early structure around the practice within financial and banking practice reduces downstream rework. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this part of financial and banking practice ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Agree the first three actions on multi-currency financing that will be taken on returning to work.

02

Assess the capital and liquidity implications of multi-currency financing.

03

Integrate multi-currency financing into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

04

Assess the current state of multi-currency financing against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

05

Price multi-currency financing to reflect the risk actually being taken.

06

Document the approval chain for exceptions to policy on multi-currency financing.

07

Apply the relevant accounting and disclosure treatment to multi-currency financing.

Who Should Attend

01

Relationship and product managers whose targets depend on multi-currency financing.

02

Operations staff executing and settling multi-currency financing.

03

Internal auditors reviewing the controls around multi-currency financing.

04

Consultants and advisers supporting clients on multi-currency financing.

05

Officers preparing reports on multi-currency financing for boards or oversight committees.

06

Treasury and asset-liability staff managing multi-currency financing.

Course Modules

01

Multi-currency financing: reporting that supports a decision

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The early warning on multi-currency financing that arrives in time

  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of multi-currency financing.
  • Rehearse the briefing on multi-currency financing that would follow an incident.
  • Agree who signs off multi-currency financing and record that they did.
  • Identify the key controls over multi-currency financing and who tests them.

Session 2The assumption inside the model for multi-currency financing that nobody revisits

  • Name a single owner for each element of multi-currency financing.
  • Confirm client due diligence standards applied to multi-currency financing are current.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when multi-currency financing underperforms.
  • Compare the cost of multi-currency financing with the cost of its absence.
02

Multi-currency financing: the control framework and segregation of duties

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The control on multi-currency financing that looks strong and is not

  • Agree what will be standardised in multi-currency financing and what will not.
  • Design the exception process for multi-currency financing and require a documented rationale.
  • Anticipate the objections multi-currency financing will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Verify six months later that changes to multi-currency financing have held.

Session 2Reviewing multi-currency financing when nothing has gone wrong

  • Close out actions on multi-currency financing rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Set early warning indicators for multi-currency financing with defined action thresholds.
  • Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in multi-currency financing.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates multi-currency financing is under control.
03

Multi-currency financing: audit evidence and examiner readiness

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What to measure in multi-currency financing and what to ignore

  • Test the procedure for multi-currency financing against a realistic scenario.
  • Review the pricing of multi-currency financing against the risk being assumed.
  • Set out the decisions in multi-currency financing that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Test multi-currency financing against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.

Session 2Evidencing that multi-currency financing worked as designed

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to multi-currency financing will be introduced.
  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering multi-currency financing.
  • Prepare the summary of multi-currency financing that senior management will read.
  • State the risk appetite for multi-currency financing as a number, not an adjective.
04

Multi-currency financing: regulatory obligation and supervisory expectation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Setting a limit on multi-currency financing that will actually be respected

  • Check the accounting treatment applied to multi-currency financing against current standards.
  • List the assumptions in any model supporting multi-currency financing and when each was last challenged.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside multi-currency financing.
  • Identify the data already collected that bears on multi-currency financing.

Session 2Moving multi-currency financing from approval to execution

  • Build the competence framework that supports multi-currency financing.
  • Assess the capital consumed by multi-currency financing under current and stressed conditions.
  • Confirm reporting on multi-currency financing reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in multi-currency financing.

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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

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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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