Background:
The Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) play a very important role in the Indian Financial System by catering to diverse financial needs of a wide variety of customers, both in urban and rural areas. The NBFCs and HFCs play a complementary role to the banks as well as provide them competition. Some recent failures in such entities has brought to focus the collateral impact of such institutions on the stability of the financial system, concerns regarding their exposures, quality of assets, mismatches in asset-liability and governance issues. The need to therefore have in place sound risk management systems, sound governance mechanism, robust customer grievance redressal mechanism and timely compliance processes has assumed critical importance.
Objective:
The Program will focus on the recent developments in the NBFC and HFC sector, the lessons to be drawn for risk management and governance, implementation of recent regulations and implications for business strategy going forward. The program also aims at updating the participants on the various aspects of “Three Lines of Defence” enabling these financial institutions to have an effective internal control and compliance function. It would also focus on the regulatory perspective for addressing customer grievances.
Program Highlights:
The Program will deal with the following:
- Risk Management and Governance function of NBFCs and HFCs – Challenges and Expectations
- Strengthening Internal Control & Compliance - Building a compliance culture and monitoring compliance risk
- Asset Liability Management in NBFCs / HFCs – Managing Liquidity and Interest Rate Risk
- Issues in the NBFC sector – Resilience and impact on the financial system