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 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
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
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