Monday, September 11, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
Banks NBFCs and other Financial Institutions are handling an ever-increasing volume of data including personally identifiable information of individual customers. This requires dynamic strategies and processes to ensure data priva
Read More Friday, August 25, 2023
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
The concept of money has evolved over time from commodity to metallic / paper currency and now digital currency. The basic tenet of money performing the primary functions of medium of exchange a unit of account and a store of valu
Read More Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
Cyber risk is today a significant business risk given the increasing use of technology by financial intermediaries. Cyber-attacks can disrupt critical financial operations leading to loss of confidence in the financia
Read More Thursday, July 27, 2023
Crystal Room, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
In recent years most economies have faced increasing uncertainties in the macroeconomic landscape. While policy normalization is far from complete resolute actions by policy makers have contained financial stability concerns to a
Read More Monday, July 24, 2023 to Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Crystal Room, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
CAFRAL and Warwick Business School UK are jointly organizing a workshop on "Economic and Financial Barriers and Opportunities to the Green Transition in Emerging Economies."
This workshop aims to shed light on the challenges and p
Read More Monday, July 17, 2023 to Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
A comprehensive KYC-AML framework is a bulwark to prevent the financial system from being used in money laundering and other unlawful activities. Banks face increased regulatory expectations and enforcement of extant regulations. R
Read More Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Asset quality in banks has important implications for the stability of the overall financial system. Management of Stressed Assets has always been a critical component of the credit function in banks following implementation of In
Read More Thursday, June 22, 2023 to Friday, June 23, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
The smooth functioning of any financial intermediation business depends as much upon a healthy bottom line as upon the robustness of its compliance function. The role of compliance function in banks is becoming more complex and dem
Read More Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
Increasing incidences of financial frauds in the loan portfolio of banks both in terms of number and value continues to be a major concern. Additionally digital and cyber frauds have also seen a spurt. Besides financial loss impl
Read More Monday, May 22, 2023
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
Climate Change and associated risks are a stark reality and the need for an appropriate framework to identify assess and manage financial risks arising out of climate risk has become an imperative. India has committed to generate
Read More Friday, May 12, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Protection of customer interest continues to be a top priority of the Regulator and the Ombudsman Scheme is a significant measure for redressal of grievances of customers in banks NBFCs and PSOs. Tremendous increase in the network
Read More Thursday, April 27, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
The Board of Directors is responsible for the effective governance of Banks Financial Institutions (FIs) and NBFCs. The role of directors is under increasing scrutiny domestically and internationally particularly in the event of
Read More Thursday, April 20, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
While the core function of the Treasury remains to ensure that the assets continue to match the liabilities while ensuring adequate income its role has evolved from being a centralized liquidity management function to that of a co
Read More Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Banking channels could be utilised intentionally or unintentionally by criminal elements for channelizing funds for unscrupulous activities. In order to ensure that adequate controls are in place regulated entities (REs) have be
Read More Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
The financial system in India has one of the largest outreach and mechanisms for channeling delivery of financial services. While Banks / NBFCs have been extending their services with innovative use of technology and customized pro
Read More Friday, March 10, 2023 to Saturday, March 11, 2023
IIM Ahmedabad Campus
CAFRAL co-hosted an International Research Conference on FinTech: Innovation Inclusion and Regulation with IIM Ahmedabad on March 10th and 11th 2023 at the IIM-A campus. The event had multiple high quality domestic and international paper submi
Read More Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Digital lending has been steadily growing in volume over the years along with increasing digitalization driven by fintechs NBFCs & banks. The pandemic provided further impetus to this growth. Given the extent of m
Read More Thursday, February 16, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
Cyber-attacks on banks and financial institutions are becoming increasingly pervasive and sophisticated. Cyber risk is today a business risk of critical nature impacting financial assets business continuity trust and reputation.
Read More Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Rendezvous, Hotel Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
The HR landscape has been changing rapidly after the onslaught of Covid-19 and in the wake of unprecedented economic and financial sector developments impacting the future of work. The pandemic has tremendously impacted
Read More Thursday, January 5, 2023
Ballroom, The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
The Board of Directors (BoD) is responsible for effective governance of Banks Financial Institutions (FIs) and NBFCs. Strategic oversight by the BoD on assurance functions besides the ability to seek / extract vital information i
Read More Wednesday, December 21, 2022 to Thursday, December 22, 2022
Forum & Capitol, Taj President, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai
Background:
Increasing incidences of financial frauds in the loan portfolio of banks both in terms of number and value have been a major concern. Additionally frauds on account of small value card / internet based transactions h
Read More Monday, December 12, 2022 to Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Rendezvous, The Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, Mumbai
CAFRAL is hosting a conference on “CAFRAL Annual Conference: The Financial System and Macroeconomy in Emerging Economies” on December 12-13 2022 in Mumbai.
The conference will feature academic presentations on topics such as macroe
Read More Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Conference
Background:
India is predicted to be one of the fastest growing economies in coming years and it is already the fifth largest economy based on quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) numbers in current dollars for the period ending Decemb
Read More Friday, October 14, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Climate change is becoming an increasingly powerful driver of risk for banks and other financial institutions. It must be noted that climate risk is a transverse risk which means that it will manifest itself in existing risks facin
Read More Friday, September 23, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Agro-MSMEs operating in the intersection of agriculture sector and MSME sector form many commercially viable and socially impactful value chains. These value chains can seamlessly link the rural with the urban sector. Again
Read More Thursday, August 25, 2022
Gateway, Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai
Background:
Advanced technologies (ATs) such as Artificial Intelligence Distributed Ledger Technology / Blockchain Technology Machine Learning and Data Analytics etc. are transforming the nature of financial intermediation in a very fundamen
Read More Thursday, August 18, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
During the last several years Digital Lending (DL) has been steadily growing in volume driven by NBFCs FinTechs and Banks. The circumstances of the pandemic provided significant momentum to that growth.
The most innovative seg
Read More Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
The smooth continuity of any financial intermediation business is dependent upon a healthy bottom-line and sound compliance risk management. In fact in large measure compliance failures and consequent regulatory penalties which ha
Read More Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx - Virtual Learning Program
Background:
A Platform Economy (PE) also known as digital platform economy (DPE) has been evolving for quite some time. A platform or a Platform Technology (PT) which is actually a group of technologies used as a base or infrastructure
Read More Monday, June 20, 2022 to Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Rendezvous, Taj Mahal Tower, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
Regulated Entities (RE) must have a robust efficient and sound operating framework to know their customers. The framework universally known as Know Your Customer (KYC) framework must be strictly compliant with extant r
Read More Monday, May 30, 2022
Online CISCO WebEx
Background:
Individual financial institutions face significant exposure to cyber risk as financial intermediation is information technology-intensive and intermediaries are highly interconnected inter alia through payment systems. Therefore
Read More Friday, May 27, 2022
Gateway Room, The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai
Background:
Climate Change and the risk it entails is no more an uncertainty but a stark reality and therefore the threat posed by climate change must be addressed as a core economic and financial system challenge by all stakeholders with ur
Read More 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
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