Thursday, April 28, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Post pandemic most economies face unique policy challenges in the midst of increasing uncertainties in the macroeconomic landscape. Pandemic outbreak in major links of global supply chains have resulted in lingering supply disrupt
Read More Friday, April 22, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
In recent times there have been several regulatory changes relating to banks’ operations in Indian financial markets. Reserve Bank of India (Credit Derivatives) Directions 2022 have been issued relating to credit derivative
Read More Monday, March 28, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Advanced Technologies are increasingly redefining the structure function organisational culture and operating environment of financial intermediaries. While strategically calibrated adoption of advanced technologies could on the
Read More Thursday, March 10, 2022 to Friday, March 11, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
The Board of Directors (BOD) is ultimately responsible for effective governance of a Bank or a Financial Institution. Primarily the BOD builds its capability to govern through three streams of assurance functions (risk
Read More Wednesday, March 2, 2022 to Thursday, March 3, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Incidences of Financial Frauds in large loan accounts with huge financial loss implications have sharply risen in recent times. Digital & cyber frauds are also on the rise with increasing use of technology. Money laundering and
Read More Friday, February 18, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background: The Internal Audit function provides assurance to the executive management and the Board of Directors that governance processes are sound and that existing internal controls are adequate to mitigate risks. However the fast cha
Read More Thursday, February 10, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
The HR landscape has been changing rapidly due to recent public health social economic and financial sector developments including the far reaching impact of the COVID 19 outbreak. One of the worldwide surveys done by a lead
Read More Monday, January 24, 2022 to Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
In recent times the NBFC sector has come under sharper regulatory focus due to several reasons. The sector has been playing an increasingly important role in the financial system contributing to nearly 20% of the total credit flow
Read More Monday, December 27, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Today data and analytics are arguably the most powerful enablers of business. Given that they play a crucial role in digital banking and digital transformation banks now handle an ever increasing volume of data which makes sound m
Read More Thursday, December 23, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
LIBOR transition is no more a future event. With regulatory prescriptions in place with a roadmap it is already a work in progress for banks financial institutions and corporates. Banks and other financial institutions following
Read More Tuesday, November 9, 2021 to Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background:
The role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of banks and other financial intermediaries has been evolving over time to acquire increasingly enhanced status. In recent times the RBI and other financial regulators have tended to recogn
Read More Tuesday, September 28, 2021 to Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Risk Management (RM) continues to evolve marked by bouts of advancements along with setbacks. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) resulting largely from private sector initiatives promises to potentially aid the advancement in RM an
Read More Thursday, September 16, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Objective: If and when the climate change risk accentuates there could be sharp and large scale deterioration in the quality of assets on the books of financial intermediaries. Immediate and sweeping regulatory changes triggered by such crisis
Read More Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Conference
Background:
In recent years there has been increasingly heightened research deliberations and activities on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). CBDC is no more just a concept. Now we are talking in terms of not only CBDC but CBDCs.
Some
Read More Thursday, August 26, 2021 to Friday, August 27, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background:
Agriculture and MSME are crucial sectors of the Indian economy. In the current pandemic situation while agriculture has remained largely unaffected the MSME sector has suffered impacting output and employment. Acknowledging the r
Read More Thursday, July 15, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Objective: This is a unique virtual leadership program for women officers at senior and middle levels in Banks Financial Institutions and NBFCs. This program has five building blocks. One it seeks to expose the participants to key theoretical
Read More Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Workshop
Objective Recent developments including a spate of regulatory penalties on many Banks and Financial Institutions both in India and abroad due to serious compliance breaches and RBIs new regulatory framework on compliance function in banks have
Read More Friday, May 28, 2021 to Saturday, May 29, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background: Retail lending (RL) in India has seen significant changes during the pandemic. The Pandemic has in general accelerated digitization initiatives across the banking sector. Several regulatory changes have cleared the way for new player
Read More Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx
Background: COVID19 pandemic which has already lasted longer than a year has disrupted the normal operations in banks and financial institutions. This has resulted in potential systemic stress which in turn could exacerbate the stress on i
Read More Thursday, March 18, 2021 to Friday, March 19, 2021
Virtual Learning Program
Objective of the Program
This Virtual Learning Program (VLP) the first of its kind will provide unique learning opportunity to the Company Secretaries (CS) and Secretaries to the Boards (SB) working in the financial sector.
The VLP seeks to
Read More Thursday, November 19, 2020 to Friday, November 20, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background: Risk Management in banks and financial institutions have seen repeated failures despite adoption of sophisticated approaches increasing stringency in regulation and intensive use of technology. Among other things the reasons for f
Read More Thursday, October 29, 2020 to Friday, October 30, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background: There is need for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) that runs as an overlay on or adjunct to the usual risk management function in financial institutions. ERM encourages institutions to recognise and manage risks beyond the “sil
Read More Thursday, October 22, 2020 to Friday, October 23, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) traditionally owned the accounting & book keeping functions in banks. The key task before CFOs was the preparation of financial reports & statements. Over time they have been called upon to own the financ
Read More Friday, October 9, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
Covid-19 pandemic an unprecedented event in our history has severely impacted lives across societies and economies. The risk of contagion which this pandemic has generated has forced lifestyle and work culture changes on individuals and organi
Read More Monday, September 28, 2020 to Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background: Frauds reported by banks and financial institutions increased 159% by value to Rs 1.85 lakh crore from Rs 71 543 crore in 2018-19. By volume the increase in 2019-20 was 28% (8 707 cases) as per data released by Reserve Bank of India
Read More Thursday, September 24, 2020 to Friday, September 25, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Objective:
Agro-MSMEs which operate in the intersection of Agriculture and MSME sectors can be powerful vehicles of growth in the post-pandemic environment. The CAFRAL VLP seeks to build a business case for lending profitably to the Agro-MSME
Read More Monday, August 31, 2020 to Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Objective of the Program
This is CAFRAL’s first Virtual Learning Program (VLP) for the Non-Executive Chairpersons & Directors (NEC&D) of the Banks and Financial Institutions. This VLP will deal with some of the core and strategic
Read More Monday, August 17, 2020 to Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background: Digital Lending (DL) can potentially bring about exponential change in financial intermediation. A private sector joint study states that in India DL to MSMEs alone can grow upto seven lakh crore by 2023. To start with GST reform an
Read More Monday, August 17, 2020 to Thursday, August 20, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
Objective
The objective of the series is to provide participants with a detailed understanding of key policy issues in international trade and how theory helps understand them.
• Why does India export textile
Read More Saturday, August 8, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
The CAFRAL Web Conference seeks to engage with the Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) and Chief Learning Officers (CLOs) of the banks on challenges and opportunities thrown up by the COVID outbreak for HR Management and Learning Management.
Read More Monday, July 27, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
With a view to strengthening corporate governance in Indian banks the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a discussion paper (DP) on ‘Governance in Commercial Banks in India’ last month. Among other things the DP proposes to limit
Read More Friday, July 10, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
Banks conduct Stress Tests (ST) as part of the regulatory capital framework for assessing minimum level of capital requirement under stressed situations as also from liquidity adequacy risk management and strategic perspectives. A robust ST Fr
Read More Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
The Reserve Bank had issued Guidelines on Sale of Loan Exposures (which included direct assignment transactions) vide circular dated February 1 2006. They were updated on May 7 2012 and July 1 2013. Subsequently BCBS issued guidelines on sec
Read More Friday, June 26, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
The Reserve Bank had issued Guidelines on Securitisation of Standard Assets (which included direct assignment transactions) vide circular dated February 1 2006. They were updated on May 7 2012 and July 1 2013. Subsequently BCBS issued guidel
Read More Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Online CISCO WebEx
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently introduced an amendment to its Master Direction – Know Your Customer (KYC) Direction 2016 (KYC Directions) requiring Regulated Entities (REs) to carry out Risk Assessment Exercises periodically to
Read More Monday, June 22, 2020 to Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Workshop
Objective: Recent developments including a spate of regulatory penalties on many Banks and Financial Institutions both in India and abroad due to serious compliance breaches and RBIs draft regulatory framework on compliance function in banks h
Read More Thursday, June 11, 2020
Online WebEx
Pandemic has rendered the current rating and risk assessment system inadequate. Post COVID, certain new ways of rating and assessing risk might evolve. Already some changes are taken place. What is the evolving shape of things?
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 to Thursday, February 27, 2020
Mumbai
CAFRAL and the World Bank are jointly hosting a conference on “State Intervention in the Financial Sector” in Mumbai India.
The conference will feature academic presentations on topics such as banking bank-firm relationships and
Read More Tuesday, February 25, 2020 to Friday, February 28, 2020
Hotel Oberoi, Nariman Point, Mumbai.
Financial markets are the mainstay of matured and emerging economies; however banks invariably play a crucial role as investors issuers and market makers for providing depth and liquidity in the financial markets across jurisdictions. Again
Read More Wednesday, February 5, 2020 to Thursday, February 6, 2020
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai
Objective of the Program
The program seeks to enhance the insight of the participants on policy and practical aspects of Board governance and functioning. The program has three building blocks. The first block will set the backdrop through a qu
Read More Wednesday, January 29, 2020 to Thursday, January 30, 2020
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal, Colaba, Mumbai
Incidences of Financial Frauds (FF) in large loan accounts with huge financial loss implications have sharply risen in recent times. Digital & cyber frauds are also on the rise with increased use of technology. Fraudulent transactions in d
Read More Monday, January 20, 2020 to Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Gateway Room, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Colaba, Mumbai.
Retails lending in India is getting increasingly crowded. While there is intense competition in the traditional segments of retail lending there is enormous opportunities in emerging and niche areas. Retail lending capacity will need to lever
Read More Friday, December 13, 2019 to Saturday, December 14, 2019
Hotel Taj President, Mumbai
Objective
This Conference would provide a forum to the heads of banks’ risk function to meet and discuss the emerging issues surrounding risk management after reviewing the range of known risks facing banks and financial institutions aga
Read More Wednesday, November 27, 2019 to Thursday, November 28, 2019
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Conference Objective
The role of compliance function in banks is becoming more complex and demanding. The regulatory and supervisory expectations are rising and the business units within the bank are focusing on cost reduction and value additio
Read More Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai
Objective of the Program
India’s banking sector has been facing a large overhang of balance sheet stress in recent times. The persisting deterioration in asset quality has necessitated sharp increases in provisions and for the first time
Read More Friday, November 15, 2019 to Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Hotel Orchid, Mumbai
The program is aimed at developing the skills of senior officers so as to improve their effectiveness and enable them to assume the role of future leader. Apart from the current issues and other developments in the financial sector topics like
Read More Thursday, October 31, 2019 to Saturday, November 9, 2019
Indian leg : Hotel Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai, India Overseas leg: Reputed Business School, Washington DC, USA
About the Program
It is a capsuled program that potentially shapes and reinforces financial leadership traits around technical skills in uniquely blended ways. This Program has been designed and will be delivered in collaboration with the 
Read More Tuesday, October 15, 2019 to Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Classroom, Taj Lands’ End, Bandra (W), Mumbai
s
· Review the revised regulation on KYC for banks and NBFCs including Digital KYC
· Review the important aspects and issues surrounding regulatory guidelines on KYC-AML-CFT
&mi
Read More Monday, October 14, 2019 to Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Vivanta by Taj, Panaji
Objective of the Program
The objective of the program is to focus on current issues and challenges faced by banks including those relating to governance risk compliance business strategy asset quality and capital planning. The program would
Read More Monday, September 30, 2019
Classroom, Taj Lands End, Bandra(W), Mumbai
and Highlights
The Conference will provide a forum for discussion on several key issues and emerging trends in the areas of HR management for Chief Human Resource Officers and Chief Learning Officers of Banks and Financial Institutions.
The
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