The role of Corporate Governance and what does that mean for internal audit, the customer’s view – what do they need to know, how this relates to compliance and the objectives, benefits of a coordinated approach to all aspects of risk management, compliance and its responsibilities, how it relates to other parts of the business, compliance reporting lines, matrix management, the contents of an ethical framework, CISI ethical standards, ICAEW ethical standard, what they mean in practice, bank ethical statements and the impact on the business environment, Political misbehaviour, Anti-bribery and corruption, .Anti-money laundering, Insider-dealing, Links to risk management, Links to corporate reputation, when it goes wrong, Codes of Conduct, Conduct of business and facilitation payments, Developing culture within an organisation, Tone at the top, Leadership and culture, Key organisational issues, Accounting controls, HR, Management and stakeholder expectations, Nature of Human Behaviours, Remuneration, Incentive structures and Conduct risk, developing the audits, sensitivities and problem areas for auditors and much more.

Delegates will gain specialist technical and behavioural knowledge, an understanding of the core components of corporate culture and an effective ethical framework including how to:

• Appreciate the importance of ethics and culture to an organisation
• Appreciate the ethical dilemmas likely to be faced in practice
• Identify the key sources of conduct and reputational risks for your organization
• What is ethical behaviour?
• The drivers of culture and implementing appropriate frameworks
• Understand the key drivers of reputational risk and how these are managed

Practical Group Case Studies will include What do these terms really mean to you and to your firm?  How does this impact your audit approach? Bank penalties and failure through ethical failure – what should the bank have done?  Could audit have helped? Lessons from real cases – what can we learn?

Led by a Tier 1 global bank risk  and audit expert delegates will develop technical audit programmes as a group – a key course take-away – including the audit of governance and ethics embedding ethical behaviour within a bank, culture within your bank, the role of HR in implementing a bank culture, Conduct Risk, reputational risk management in a bank, and much more.

All delegates who complete this course will receive a Certificate in Auditing Ethics, Culture, Conduct and Reputational Risk in Banks. For those who require a demonstration of training competency by means of an assessment, a 20 multiple choice questions assessment, remotely invigilated, with results reporting and a resit is available at no additional cost when requested at time of booking.

Highly interactive expert-led presentation, Q&A, group real-time in-depth case studies, audit writing programmes, and discussion supported by key principles and theory.

The virtual learning platform uses safe, industry preferred encrypted Cisco WebEx to optimize live face-to-face visual interaction, discrete chat, for polling and quizzes. (An invitation via email with access link is included for all participants.)