Stress test underwriting and share pricing against scenarios that are plausible rather than comfortable.
Building Underwriting Strategies and Pricing New Share Issues
An applied course in underwriting and share pricing built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
Course Overview
In finance the difference between a healthy position on underwriting and share pricing and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. Growth built on poorly controlled share pricing reverses faster than it accumulated. Practitioner evidence points the same way: the financial and banking practice discipline improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. The programme converts underwriting and share pricing from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. Participants who influence the practice within financial and banking practice without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about share pricing in their own setting. Most organisations already have a policy on underwriting and share pricing; far fewer can show it working. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to share pricing in an order their organisation can absorb. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the financial and banking practice discipline rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around share pricing.
Align underwriting and share pricing with the wider objectives of the business line rather than optimising it in isolation.
Set acceptance criteria for share pricing before work begins rather than after.
Establish the segregation of duties required around underwriting and share pricing.
Build the audit evidence that demonstrates share pricing operated as designed.
Design the reporting on underwriting and share pricing that reaches decision makers in time to act.
Who Should Attend
Officers preparing reports on underwriting and share pricing for boards or oversight committees.
Credit and underwriting officers assessing share pricing.
Internal auditors reviewing the controls around underwriting and share pricing.
Treasury and asset-liability staff managing share pricing.
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to underwriting and share pricing that has grown up informally.
Operations staff executing and settling share pricing.
Course Modules
Underwriting and share pricing: exceptions, breaches and remediation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What underwriting and share pricing does to capital and liquidity under stress
- Confirm that those complying with underwriting and share pricing understand why it exists.
- Check the legal and contractual exposure created by share pricing.
- Check the accounting treatment applied to underwriting and share pricing against current standards.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of share pricing current.
Session 2What a supervisor will ask about share pricing, and in what order
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in underwriting and share pricing.
- Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating share pricing operated as designed.
- Remove steps in underwriting and share pricing that add effort without adding assurance.
- Design the exception process for share pricing and require a documented rationale.
Share pricing: audit evidence and examiner readiness
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The control on share pricing that looks strong and is not
- Test underwriting and share pricing against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
- Confirm regulatory reporting on share pricing is complete, timely and reconciled.
- Confirm reporting on underwriting and share pricing reaches the committee that can act on it.
- Set out the decisions in share pricing that require sign-off and by whom.
Session 2Stress scenarios for share pricing that are plausible rather than convenient
- Set early warning indicators for underwriting and share pricing with defined action thresholds.
- Name a single owner for each element of share pricing.
- Confirm client due diligence standards applied to underwriting and share pricing are current.
- Review the pricing of share pricing against the risk being assumed.
Share pricing: the control framework and segregation of duties
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of share pricing honestly
- Document the remediation plan for each known weakness in underwriting and share pricing.
- Assess the capital consumed by share pricing under current and stressed conditions.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates underwriting and share pricing is under control.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about share pricing.
Session 2Moving underwriting and share pricing from approval to execution
- Identify the key controls over underwriting and share pricing and who tests them.
- Rank the weaknesses in share pricing by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Compare the cost of underwriting and share pricing with the cost of its absence.
- List the assumptions in any model supporting share pricing and when each was last challenged.
Share pricing: capital, liquidity and balance sheet effect
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Closing out share pricing and capturing what was learned
- Collect evidence on the present handling of underwriting and share pricing before proposing changes.
- Agree who signs off share pricing and record that they did.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to underwriting and share pricing will be introduced.
- Set out how exceptions to share pricing are requested and approved.
Session 2Setting a limit on share pricing that will actually be respected
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when underwriting and share pricing underperforms.
- Set escalation thresholds for share pricing that work out of hours.
- Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside underwriting and share pricing.
- Define acceptance criteria for share pricing in advance.
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Silver Package
At least 3 people
- 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
- 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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