Risk management workshops

Intel-act, in collaboration with Opti Risk Systems, is organising a series of workshops on the financial risk sector this month and in April. The first two half-day workshops will focus on business risk and corporate governance as well as building a risk management framework.

These workshops, which start on Friday, will provide participants with a thorough understanding of the nature of risk, how it can be managed, its relationship to corporate governance and how to build a risk management framework. Topics such as assessing the various categories of risk, measuring and managing risk management, identifying risks, risk assessment, and risk controls will be covered.

The tutor is John Thirlwell, an acknowledged authority on business and operational risk in the UK and internationally within the banking and insurance sectors. He is a well-known speaker and writer on risk management and regulatory and governance issues.

His early career was spent in banking, initially with Barclays and Lloyds TSB, primarily as a credit risk specialist, culminating in his appointment as director and chief risk officer of Hill Samuel Bank in 1991. He remained at Hill Samuel until December 1996, when he joined the British Bankers' Association (BBA) as director responsible for risk and regulatory issues.

He was recently asked by the Financial Times to co-author a book on operational risk management. Since leaving the BBA in 2003, he has continued to speak, write and advise on risk and regulatory issues.

To learn more about these workshops, call Intel-act Co. Ltd on 7900 7273 or e-mail info@intel-act.com.