June 16-21, 2013 Toronto, Canada TC International Program for Banking Supervisors PROGRAM OVERVIEW AND AGENDA Register on-line at www.torontocentre.org
June 16-21, 2013 Toronto, Canada Register Now TC International Program for Banking Supervisors Program Overview Supervisors internationally are grappling on how to connect the dots around global banking reforms and the associated guidance that is being introduced. These changes impact their own organizations and internal processes. And, of course, these reforms have a major impact on the institutions they supervise. The program is meant for supervisors to share and discuss their practical implementation experiences and challenges. Another important area to be discussed is that while the intentions of global regulatory bodies are noble, the question remains on whether these initiatives will mitigate or at least minimize the impact of the next crisis. New global reforms such as Basel III, Macro Prudential surveillance, Resolution and Recovery Plans, stress testing, Revised Basel Core Principles, Corporate Governance and additional requirements on global and national systemically important financial institutions are in various stages of implementation internationally. A panel discussion on the first day, led by regulatory experts will discuss the above two areas and set the stage for the program. In addition, later in the week, we have devoted half a day to hear from senior persons from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada (OSFI), a Chief Risk Officer from one of the large Canadian banks, as well as an independent financial services organization GRI (Global Risk Institute in Financial Services) to provide their own view on what supervisors and the industry should be doing to mitigate a crisis in the future. This banking program is an annual event that is conducted in Toronto, Canada. In addition to a key theme that is chosen each year, the program will include our popular Action Planning and Effective Stakeholder Communication topics. Along with theoretical presentations, there will be group interaction, case studies and panel discussions, to allow for effective sharing of ideas and best practices. Other relevant topics that participants will find interesting that will be presented by expert speakers and practitioners: Contingency planning for a crisis and why it is important. A real life liquidity crisis. Using Northern Rock as the case study. A real life foreign exchange crisis. Using Indonesia as the case study. Macro prudential surveillance and how to go about implementing such a process. Supervisory colleges and cross border supervision and how to make them more effective. Risk Based Supervision. Did it work during the crisis? What modifications, if any, are being made by supervisory agencies? Resolution and Recovery Plan initiatives. How these are being rolled out by Supervisors. Dodd-Frank and Basel III activities in the United States. Program Objectives There are many who would argue that more regulation and capital need to be relatively balanced with more intense and pro-active risk based supervision and early intervention. Hopefully, the presentations and group discussions will allow you to make your own conclusion of what the right balance should be for your jurisdiction. The objectives of the program are to bring together expert supervisors and regulators, together with participants from both developing and developed countries to discuss and share their views and perspectives on: What impact the global financial reform changes are having on their: i. Organization structures and resources ii. On how they carry out their on site and monitoring activities Whether there are any unintended consequences that might result from these reforms What impact these changes are having on the institutions they supervise Other practical supervisory changes that have been identified which they believe would be effective and how these are being implemented in their jurisdictions Whether these new reforms will be effective in mitigating the next crisis, i.e. will they be effective in strengthening supervisory oversight What the early results are showing from the implementation of any new reforms and other changes Upon completion of this 5-day course, participants will better understand how other countries are implementing some of the more relevant banking reforms in their jurisdictions. In addition the course should allow allow them to develop processes to better conduct their supervisory work. English Language Competency is Required. Who should attend? This program is designed for mid to senior-level staff involved in regulatory and supervisory activities at central banks, supervisory authorities, deposit insurers and resolution agencies who want to expand their knowledge, share best practices, and be better prepared for future financial crises. Participants should have at least 3 years working experience in financial sector supervision, analysis, or policy and planning. Group Exercises and Case Studies Participants who have attended past Toronto Centre programs have rated the Toronto Centre very highly for the case studies used in our programs. These are delivered by our experienced Program Leaders, who are regulatory and supervisory experts. Sessions are highly interactive, using group activities to allow participants to learn from each other, share experiences, and compare best practices from countries around the world. Prerequisites Participants will be expected to complete pre-course reading that should take approximately 3 to 4 hours. In addition, participants will be required to identify a key challenge they face at their home agency. Throughout the program, participants will work on an Action Plan to address this challenge; additional details on Action Planning will be sent to participants once accepted to the program.
PROGRAM AGENDA Sunday, JuNE 16 - Networking Tour to Niagara Falls 18:00 21:00 Ice breaker and welcome dinner 1 day Monday, JuNE 17 08:15 08:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks Mr. Babak Abbaszadeh, President and CEO, Toronto Centre Group Photograph 08:45 10:00 Session 1: Round table of Participants Participants introduce themselves and provide their objectives for the program. 10:00 10:15 Break 10:15 12:30 Session 2: Global Reforms Post the Financial Crisis and Supervisory Impact. Panel Discussion Supervisory Perspectives Alvir Hoffmann Clive Briault Jan Willem Van der Vossen Chris Cardoza Speakers to provide their perspectives on: Global responses to the financial crisis and the current state Impact on banks, intended and unintended consequences What regulatory reforms are still not completed Asymmetries between regulators and banks Will it work? And what else is needed? 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Session 3: The Importance of Contingency Planning Jan Willem Van der Vossen Participants will learn about the importance of contingency planning. Costs and benefits of contingency planning How to develop a contingency plan and maintain a crisis binder Simulate and conduct a readiness test for your organization Legal powers, resources and contingency planning 15:00 15:15 Break 15:15 16:30 Session 4: Action Planning Salvador Chang Participants will learn about a framework for tackling challenges faced at work. Assess the challenge confronting you with options to consider Outline a plan, analyze stakeholders, and project implementation 16:30 17:00 Action Planning Participants will start applying the action planning methodology with the assistance of program leaders. The first day will focus on understanding the situation and the development of a precise definition of the problem/challenge identified by the participant.
2 day Tuesday, JuNE 18 08:15 08:30 Ideas I will Use 08:30 10:00 Session 5: Cross Border Supervision and Supervisory Colleges Alvir Hoffmann Participants will learn about: Benefits and implementation challenges of cross border supervision How to maximize the benefits of supervisory colleges How to strengthen ongoing information exchange and cooperation amongst supervisors 10:00 10:15 Break 10:15 12:30 Session 6: Case Study: Northern Rock Clive Briault Participants will learn about: The causes of the failure The vulnerability of banks to liquidity market conditions Learn about the importance of identifying and monitoring risks Lessons for supervisors 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Session 6: Case Study: Northern Rock (cont d) 15:00 15:15 Break 15:15 16:30 Session 7: Stakeholder Communication Gerry Lewis A session on the approach for persuading stakeholders to support your Action Plans: Analyze stakeholders who they are, what they like and dislike about your proposal, and what is needed to get their support and overcome resistance Four box model for effective persuasion and communication How to build a burning platform for change 16:30 17:00 Action Plans Participants will continue working in the action planning methodology with the assistance of program leaders. On this session, they should be working in setting the goal and the outline of the plan.
3 day Wednesday, June 19 08:15 08:30 Ideas I will Use 08:30 10:00 Session 8: Risk Based Supervision: How Can We Do Better? An Australian Supervisory Perspective David Lewis Participants will hear about: What lessons can supervisors draw from the global financial crisis? Can supervisory activities be better organized to prevent, and respond to future financial crises? Risk-Based Supervision: Putting the concept into practice Targeting emerging risks: How do we know what we don t know? 10:00 10:15 Break 10:15 12:30 Session 9: Changes in Resolution and Recovery Planning A Canadian Perspective Olga Krokhina Thomas Vice Participants will learn about: What is resolution and recovery planning How is it being implemented? Timelines Supervisory experiences. Benefits and challenges Bank response Work to date and next steps 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Session 10: Dodd Frank and Basel III: A US Perspective Robert Schenck Supervisory weaknesses revealed by the U.S. meltdown Summary description of the reforms Bank response What has been the pace of implementation and target completion timelines Reform pros and cons from the supervisory perspective Prospects for success 15:00 15:15 Break 15:15 16:30 Session 11: Corporate Governance Jan Willem Van der Vossen Why is Corporate Governance important? Basic Principles of good governance Good Corporate Governance and enforcement challenges Where does Corporate Governance stand after the crisis? Are we doing anything different? 16:30 17:00 Action Plan Participants will continue to work on their Action Plan. On this session participant should finish the details of the plan to address the challenge and/or problem identified, analyze stakeholders and define the communication strategy to gain their support.
4 day Thursday, June 20 08:00 08:15 Ideas I will Use 08:15 10:15 Session 12: Emerging Risks and Oversight Challenges What should Supervisors and Bankers be doing to mitigate future risks? Ben Gully and Vlasios Melessanakis, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI) Emerging risks / trends and what OSFI is doing to mitigate these risks Regulatory and Supervisory changes and proposed timelines Implementation challenges Nico Meijer, BMO Capital Markets Emerging risks / trends in the global environment and what they are doing internally about them Lessons drawn and changes made in their Risk Management Groups, post the crisis The interaction with supervisors: what has changed? Interactions with boards and committees: what has changed? Michel Maila, Global Risk Institute in Financial Services Emerging risks / trends and who should be doing what about them Expected outcomes and possible unintended consequences from financial reforms 10:15 10:30 Break 10:30 12:30 Emerging Risks and Oversight Challenges (cont d.) What should Supervisors and Bankers be doing to mitigate future risks and crises? 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 15:00 Session 13: Macroprudential Surveillance Identifying Risks / Indicators Clive Briault Participants will learn about the benefits and implementation challenges regarding macroprudential surveillance: What is macroprudential surveillance and its importance in achieving financial stability Identifying sources of Financial Instability Using coincident and leading Indicators Group Activity to reinforce concepts 15:00 15:15 Break 15:15 16:45 Macroprudential Surveillance Institutional Structure Clive Briault Mandate, powers and accountability Advantages and disadvantages of alternative institutional structures Group activity to reinforce concepts 16:45 17:15 Individual Action Plan Participants will finalize their Action Plan material for presentations on Friday
5 day Friday, June 21 08:15 08:30 Ideas I will Use 08:30 10:00 Session 14: Case Study: The Foreign Exchange Crisis in Indonesia Dr. Halim Alamsyah Participants will learn about: Details on how a foreign exchange crisis develops and unfolds Lessons learned from the foreign exchange crisis that regulators and supervisors should think about What regulatory and supervisory changes were made post that crisis What has worked and any unintended consequences 10:00 10:15 Break 10:15 12:30 Action Plans Presentations by participants Closing Ceremony and Certificate Presentation
Program Leader Biographies Dr. Halim Alamsyah is currently Deputy Governor in Bank Indonesia. Prior to this position, he was Director of Banking Research and Regulation, Director of Monetary Statistics and Balance of Payments, Director of Economic Research and Monetary Policy, and Director of Office of the Governor. He started his career in Bank Indonesia as credit analysts in the Credit for Cooperatives Department in 1982, and spent about 25 years as economic researcher dealing with macro-modeling & forecasting and monetary policy analysis. During the last several years his research has been focused more on macro-prudential as well as micro-prudential in banking and financial policy analysis. He has also served the Board of Governor of Bank Indonesia in many roles & functions in the formulation and recommendations of monetary and banking policies. Among his overseas stints was his secondment as business cycle analyst in the Central Planning Bureau, The Hague - the Netherlands in 1990-1992 and as economist in the Asia Pacific Department of the IMF, Washington DC in 1996-1997. Dr. Halim Alamsyah completed his undergraduate studies in Management from Indonesia Islamic University (1980) and in Agrarian Law from Gadjah Mada University (1981). He also obtained his master degree in Development Economics from Boston University, USA (1985) and a doctorate degree from University of Indonesia. His PhD dissertation was on monetary policy framework in a highly persistent inflation environment using dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. Dr. Halim Alamsyah teaches macroeconomics, monetary and exchange rate analysis as well as modeling and forecasting in several universities, institutes and research centers in Indonesia and overseas. He has published widely mostly in the area of monetary economics. Clive Briault is a senior adviser on regulation at KPMG, an adviser to a number of supervisory authorities in Europe, and has acted as a consultant to the IMF, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. He is also a non-executive director of a financial services company in the UK. After completing an MPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford, Clive joined the Bank of England in 1980. His roles there included Head of Monetary Assessment and Strategy (1991-1996), and Head of Capital and Wholesale Markets Division (from 1996-1998). He joined the Financial Services Authority (FSA) at its formation in 1998 as Director of Central Policy, and was Director, Prudential Standards from 2001 to 2004. Clive was Managing Director of Retail Markets at the FSA from April 2004 to April 2008. He had responsibility for the regulation of firms and groups which offer services primarily for the retail markets, as well as the associated policy framework, the FSA s firm and consumer contact center, and its financial capability work. Chris Cardoza is currently a Program Director at the Toronto Centre. He is on secondment from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) Canada where he had served for 23 years. In his role as Senior Director, he was responsible for the industry wide monitoring of the deposit taking industry, and the life and property and casualty insurance industries. In addition, he was responsible for the Emerging Risk Committee processes that identify and recommend action regarding potential emerging risks, along with the tracking of leading indicators for economic, credit risk, market risk, and liquidity. Mr. Cardoza was also responsible for managing the regulatory financial data needs for supervisors along with the enabling business intelligence analytical tool requirements. His previous activities at OSFI included the supervisory responsibility for the big 5 conglomerate banks in Canada for five years; he was part of the OSFI team that developed the OSFI Supervisory Framework and was involved with the implementation of Basel II activities with respect to home/host, capital and credit data and the corporate governance work streams. Mr. Cardoza was also the lead supervisor on two medium sized problem deposit taking institutions and was actively involved in problem resolution and their ultimate closure.
Ben Gully is Senior Director of the Deposit-Taking Group, Conglomerate Banks ( DTGC ) at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Ben joined OSFI in 2001 and was responsible for credit risk analytics in OSFI s Capital Division. Over subsequent years, he achieved broader responsibilities related to Basel II implementation and risk analytics review. Ben s current responsibilities within DTGC include the supervision of the large complex Canadian Banks. As part of this role, Ben is involved in the rollout of new international standards (such as Basel III) as well as the application of system-wide stress tests. Prior to joining OSFI, Ben worked for the Bank of England s Financial Stability Area. Alvir Hoffmann joined the Toronto Centre Board of Directors and the position of Chair of the Banking Advisory Board in 2011. He brings with him over 30 years in banking supervision. Alvir was Deputy Governor for Supervision at the Central Bank of Brazil from December 2007 to March 2011, and Chairman of the Association of Banks Supervisors of the Americas (ASBA) from October 2008 to November 2010. He also served as Chairman of the Standards Implementation Group-Validation of the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision in 2010. For many years, Alvir was the Central Bank of Brazil s delegate to the working groups of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and to the Board of ASBA. He has worked with the IMF, World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), working on programs and missions in several countries. Currently, he is a consultant in Ernst &Young s Regulatory Practice. Olga Krokhina is a manager, Recovery and Resolution Planning, at the Office of Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI). In this capacity, Olga has been developing RRP expectations for Canadian financial institutions, leading RRP assessment work and interfacing with domestic and international regulatory agencies. Since 2002, Olga has held a variety of supervisory positions at OSFI, including supervision of the largest bank, credit risk assessment, Basel II implementation and ERM. Prior to joining OSFI, Olga worked in the financial sector and academia.
David Lewis is currently General Manager of the Supervision Framework Team at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). The Supervision Framework Team oversees the implementation of APRA s risk-based supervisory approach. It is responsible for developing and maintaining the supervisory processes and systems used by APRA to implement its prudential policies. Apart from a short period as an academic, David has spent his career as a financial regulator, working at both APRA and the Reserve Bank. He has 30 years experience in prudential regulation of banks and financial conglomerates - encompassing frontline supervision, policy development and specialist risk advice. David has a Master of Laws from the University of London; and a Bachelor of Economics (Honors) and a Bachelor of Laws (Honors First Class) from Macquarie University. Dr. Michel G. Maila, President and CEO, is a financial economist with over 30 years of international financial experience, recently served as Vice President, Risk Management at the International Finance Corporation (the Washington-based private sector arm of the World Bank Group). Previously, he worked with BMO Financial Group for 22 years, rising to the position of Executive Vice- President and Head of Corporate Risk Management. Dr. Maila received a BA degree in Economics in 1972 and an MBA degree in Economics and Finance in 1974, both from the American University of Beirut. He earned another MBA degree in International Business in 1981 and his PhD in International Finance in 1983, both from the University of Chicago. Dr. Maila is fluent in English, French, Arabic and Spanish. Nico Meijer is Executive Vice-President and Chief Risk Officer, BMO Capital Markets, Enterprise Risk & Portfolio Management. He is accountable for market risk management functions enterprise wide and works closely with BMO s business leaders to drive forward the strategic agenda for the Capital Markets business. Nico is also accountable for certain enterprise groups including Economic Capital and Stress Testing, Risk Models, and Insurance Risk. Mr. Meijer joined BMO from another large Canadian bank where he held roles as Senior Vice-President, Head of Global Risk Strategy; Senior Vice- President, Global Head of Trading Risk; and Senior Vice-President, Global Head of Market Risk. Prior to his risk roles, Mr. Meijer ran a range of derivative trading businesses for a major US bank in Toronto, Tokyo, and London. Nico received his PhD and MASc in Engineering from the University of Toronto, and his BASc from the University of Waterloo.
Vlasios Melessanakis is the Director of Policy Development at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada (OSFI), where he provides policy advice to the Superintendent and OSFI senior management on a wide range of regulatory issues relating to the financial sector. Vlasios has over 14 years of experience in economic research, analysis and policy development in the private sector, government and academia, of which 9 were as a Senior Economist for the Financial Sector Policy Branch of the Department of Finance, Canada. He also served as Departmental Secretary, a key executive position of the Department of Finance, during the transition of the new federal government in 2006. Beyond his professional duties at OSFI, Vlasios teaches several courses at Carleton University s Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and School of Public Policy and Administration (Ottawa), most notably a graduate course on the Regulation of Financial Institutions the only policy-oriented course of its kind currently in Canada. As well, he occasionally gives seminars on financial regulation for the Schulich School of Business at York University Executive Education Program (Toronto). Vlasios was nominated for the 2010 TVO Best Lecturer Award, which honours the most engaging and intellectually-stimulating lecturers in Ontario. In 2012, he received an award from Carleton University for being the Top Contract Instructor. Vlasios has a diverse educational background, including a B.A and M.A. in Economics from Wilfrid Laurier University, an M.B.A. in Finance from the Schulich School of Business (York University), and a Graduate Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He has also completed doctoral studies in Public Policy at Carleton University. Robert M. Schenck retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in mid-october 2012 as a vice president with 22 years of experience in domestic and international bank/holding company examinations, professional development, policy assignments, and senior management in the Bank s Supervision and Regulation Department (S&R). He was a member of FRB Atlanta s Senior Leadership Team in S&R, the Federal Reserve System s International Supervision Management Group (ISMG), and the Interagency Country Exposure Review Committee (ICERC). Prior to the Fed, Rob worked 18 years for Chase Manhattan Bank in a variety of positions both domestically and internationally in line management, commercial banking, asset based lending, private banking, corporate finance, credit risk analysis, correspondent banking, and training. He is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the Columbia University Business School Senior Executive Program, a member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of Atlanta, and he is currently enrolled as a CFA Level III Candidate.
Jan Willem Van der Vossen, is currently a Financial Stability Consultant and formerly an advisor in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF. Prior to joining the IMF in 1993, he was Deputy Chief, Banking Supervision Department-General Affairs of the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Before entering the service of the Central Bank, Mr. Van der Vossen was an officer in the Foreign Service of the Netherlands. At the IMF, Mr. Van der Vossen most recently worked on the development of criteria for the assessment of countries Basel II implementation, represented the IMF at meetings of the Basel Committee s Core Principles Liaison Group, later renamed International Liaison Group. In this context he was a member of the drafting group for the revision of the Basel Core Principles, and collaborated with the Basel Committee in drafting guidelines for Basel Core Principles self-assessments. He headed IMF FSAP teams to a variety of countries, and in cooperation with the World Bank and the Federal Reserve organized a series of successful annual policy level seminars on topical issues in banking supervision. He has accepted numerous speaking and teaching assignments on topics of banking supervision for the IMF, World Bank, Basel Committee, Financial Stability Institute and the Netherlands Central. Thomas J. Vice is an experienced executive with a background in economics, accounting and finance. With prior experience at the Bank of Montreal and OSFI (Canada s Financial Services Regulator), he has been with CDIC for more than 20 years. Mr. Vice was appointed Vice-President, Complex Resolutions in 2011 after 8 years acting as CDIC s Chief Financial Officer. During his tenure at CDIC, he has gained hands on experience in all facets of CDIC s operations including direct involvement in the resolution of 20 financial institution failures. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and maintaining Resolution Plans for Canada s largest banks, enhancing CDIC s preparation for large bank resolution and advancing coordination with domestic and international regulatory and protective agencies. Canada is considered a leader in deposit matters and CDIC s systems and processes are regularly sought after by deposit insurers elsewhere in the world. Mr. Vice has represented CDIC internationally in deposit insurance matters and has presented several papers on such topics in Canada.