Kuwait Financial Risk Management Conference

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Due to the changing financial environment, corporations must keep up with the continuous trends, get prepared for the arising challenges and learn how to stay ahead of the game.

In recent years, both the Kuwait and the GCC market have started to adjust to the post-financial crisis status, while still paying attention to the importance of the emerging markets. Their Risk Culture objectives has been shifting; Market-,Credit- and Operational Risk still play an important part in Risk Management; however on one hand now organizations must prioritize on the Regulatory and Compliance Risk, and on the other put a vital focus on Cyber Risk. The fundamental aim for banks now is to stay liquid, ensure a credit Risk Cycle, and exploit their Credit Portfolio Management.

The Volatility vs. Stability, which is your path will bring together industry professionals from the banking, insurance and investment sector, uniting both the Corporate and Supervisory side of Risk Management. The event offers an excellent opportunity to meet with key decision makers, leading financial and banking experts in Risk Culture, and provides an outstanding platform to learn more about the best practices in Financial Risk Management.

Mr. Issam Al Tawari
Managing Partner – Newbury Economic Consultancy Company
Former Chairman and Managing Director of Rasameel Structured Finance Company
Topic: The credit and liquidity crunch and its impact on organizations

Mr. Horst Simon
Risk Culture Building Training and Advisory Services- Professional Development
Topic: The importance of having an effective Risk Culture

Dr. Ayman Fathi Aalgubari
Financial Adviser – Office of the Under Secretary State Audit Bureau of Kuwait
Topic: Internal audit response to ensure coordination Among risk, strategy and performance

Mr. Amr Hafiz
Legal Advisor at Kuwait Financial Centre
Topic: Management of legal and financial risks 

Mrs. Amira Abdel Rahman
Head Of Risk Management and Compliance – National Investment Company
Topic: Corporate Governance and Institutions Performance

Mr. Hesham Hamdy
International Consultant / Trainer in Risk Management, Corporate Governance & Audit – Arab Expertise House – Ain Shams University
Topic: Three Boundaries of the Corporate Governance: Risk Management, Internal Audit and Compliance

Mr. Mohamed Shoukry
Group Compliance Manager / Leading regional bank – MENA and Turkey
Topic: Compliance Risk management

Mr. Mohammad Altarakma
Head of Enterprise Risk Management – Burgan Bank
Topic: Challenges in managing your credit portfolio in stressed scenarios with early warning indicators

WHY ATTEND

• Get familiar with new trends of Compliance Risk
• Learn how banks are facing the challenge of reporting LCR and NSFR Data
• Get the latest updates about the SSM Approach
• Take part in our industry discussion about the future of Basel III
• Be up-to-date with the Regulatory Risk changes
• Optimize your Credit Cycle
• Identifying Credit Portfolio Management potentials
• Gain insight into the latest Stress Testing challenges
• Discuss the threats and disadvantages of recent market changes

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

CROs, CFOs, Senior Regulators and Supervisors, Directors, Heads, VPs, General Managers, Sr. Management of Capital Management, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk, Regulatory Risk Portfolio Strategy, Stress Testing, Ministries and Government representatives and Basel III professional

• Risk management and financial markets
• Corporate finance and risk management
• Banking and financial intermediation
• Quantitative methods in risk management

• Economic risks and accounting standards
• The role of derivatives in the financial system
• Risk governance and compensation (risk shifting)

Risk Management Taxonomies –
Existing and Evolving Risks

Mr. Hesham Hamdy
International Consultant / Trainer in Risk Management,
Corporate Governance & Audit
Arab Expertise House – Ain Shams University

Workshop Objective 

This workshop gives attendees with no prior background in Enterprise Risk Management the basic foundation to understand risk categories, risk-based auditing and risk-based compliance principles.

This workshop will enable the attendees with experience to develop their skills and knowledge in relation to major risk areas that they have to deal with while running the business in order to enable them to effectively carry out their pertinent duties in a highly professional standard.

Workshop Langauge

Materials and handouts will be in English. Delivery will be in English/Arabic.

Risk Culture Building Workshop
Building a robust and persistent risk management culture in your organization for long term viability transformation.

Mr. Horst Simon
Risk Culture Building Training and Advisory Services- Professional Development

Workshop Objective 

This Executive and risk practitioner workshop will help delegates to understand ERM and provide guidance and practical tools on how to design and develop a unique ERM and Risk Culture Building program for their organization.

Leaders from all industries will benefit by attending this workshop. Organisations are at different levels of maturity and different stages of implementation of ERM and building a Risk Culture; this program will help you to assess the level of maturity for your organisation and help you to formulate an action plan to build an effective risk culture in your organisation.