Sustainable Banking

Introduction

The crises have emphasised the importance of increasing our resilience to environmental and social (E&S) risks, with COVID-19 a dress rehearsal for the disruptive impacts of climate change and nature loss, with the 2008 financial crisis, the financial industry all over the world has deeply affected. Moving into the future, it will be more relevant for banks and other financial institutions to implement robust measures to address these emergencies.

These shocks are accelerating the digital and sustainable transformation of banks. The banking industry is vital to achieving sustainable development due to its unique intermediation role, essential for mobilizing financial resources toward sustainable goals. Sustainable banking integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into traditional banking and sets ESG benefits as a key objective. Capital market decisions used to be based on a two-dimensional risk and return analysis. The new era of sustainable banking is based on three dimensions: risk, return, and impacts.

This Sustainable Banking training course will provide the delegates with the fundamental principles and latest tools to enable to implement sustainable banking both internal daily operations (in terms of how to manage the physical branches/locations, human capital, costs, opportunities, risks exposures) and activities relating to external interactions with the clients and the types of funded projects. It will empower the delegates to unlock and apply an innovative new approach to developing more sustainable business models for their organisations.

This GLOMACS training course will highlight:

• The Benefits of Sustainable Banking
• The Environmental, Social and Governance Fundamentals
• Techniques for developing key measures of sustainable banking
• Development of Integrated Reporting systems
• Adapting business risk analysis to manage sustainable banking

Objectives

By the end of this training course you will be able to:

• Master the aims and principles of sustainable banking
• Understand the key environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues
• Identify the impact on business and financial strategy
• Develop meaningful tools for sustainable finance reporting
• Build financial models to assess sustainable finance and other risks

Training Methodology

This Sustainable Banking training course will use various proven learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training course will follow a participative workshop format. It will be focused on developing practical skills that delegates can apply in real-life business situations on return to their organization.

Organisational Impact

By sending delegates to this training course, the organisation will gain the following benefits:

• A better understanding of the importance of banking sustainability to meet the needs of people and safeguard the environment while generating profit
• Improved the quality of their customer interactions (via services and products)
• Being influential in supporting and promoting environmentally and/or socially responsible projects and enterprises
• Increasing efficiencies and improving transparency
• Reputational benefits and commitment towards fulfilling regulatory requirements
• More employee engagement in terms of attracting and retaining talent

Personal Impact

By attending this training course, the delegates will acquire the following skills and competencies:

• A deeper understanding of the concept of sustainable banking
• Improved career growth and prospects
• Increase their knowledge of the latest products & services of sustainable banking.
• Develop professional skills in dealing with different levels of clients.
• Enhance their ability to make financial decisions with the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concept
• Be better placed to engage with their community