Following recent high profile failures, investors, regulators, counterparties and clients will expect financial services firms to have a clearer awareness and understanding of risk embedded throughout the business.

This highly practical two day course will help financial services professionals who are not risk specialists, or are new to a risk management role, develop a more systematic and effective approach to understanding and managing risk in thier business.

Just some of the benefits of attending this event:

• Develop a practical risk management model you can take away and adapt in your own organisation
• Define KPIs that help you monitor the overall level of operational risk
• Usefully interpret and present risk data you receive
• Recognise the different types of risk and determine the most appropriate measures and controls
• Identify and assess options for improving your current control of risks
• Pinpoint the real causes for risk issues, using a range of the most recent case studies
• Examine the risk measurement and management techniques available and evaluate their suitability for your role
• Review your current risk management methodology in the light of industry experiences and FSA expectations
• Align your risk management effort with wider business objectives, including sales development, customer service and compliance
• Distinguish between controllable and uncontrollable risks, and target resources where meaningful and value adding outcomes are possible
• Anticipate some of the more challenging issues surrounding operational risk, and how these might be resolved.