Events & Training

In our tenth cohort of the award-winning Vulnerability Academy, we will be bringing this to life across twelve sessions. The Academy runs from 21 September 2023 to 22 March 2024.

UK Finance’s flagship Mortgage Dinner returns on 12 December 2023 at the Hilton London Bankside, London.

Firms are either drowning in KRI data or a finding it difficult to identify indicators of key risks that give true business benefit. This course will enable you to design key risk indicators and key control indicators that assist the business, as well as being suitable for concepts such as risk appetite. You will be able to benchmark your current key risk indicator work against the many anonymised examples that will be given.

Operational risk losses are notoriously difficult to capture even though the analysis of them gives great business benefit. This course will enable attendees to benchmark their firm’s loss and event capture and analysis leading to an improved understanding of the firm’s risk profile. The course will include a section on the analysis and use of losses and events suffered by competitors, again enabling benchmarking of the attendee’s firm to take place.

Many firms did not have a pandemic in their set of scenarios when Covid-19 struck. Used with care, stress tests and scenarios can show a firm the sensitivities of its risk profile to exceptional events. Some scenarios can be very damaging whilst others can be relatively benign. Attendees will learn how to develop scenarios that reflect a firm’s own risk profile and apply the scenarios to that profile.

The ability to evaluate, design and monitor risk appetite is fundamental to a firm’s well-being and successful growth. Many firms find it difficult to clearly state their operational risk appetite, preferring to use terms such as ‘We have a low overall appetite’. This course will show you how to state your operational risk appetite both qualitatively and quantitatively, clearly and precisely on a risk-by-risk basis. The course will also review the easier-to-grasp concept of control appetite and show how control appetite is the more straightforward part of risk appetite.

UK Finance provides several eLearning invoice finance and asset-based lending industry risk modules readily accessible to all staff of member and associate companies.

The course is designed to give delegates an understanding of how this industry has developed and a detailed but simple explanation of how the main invoice finance products work.

The Foundation course is the first level of the UK Finances IF/ABL distance learning programme and provides an overview of the invoice finance industry.