Key details
Mode of delivery: Classroom-based
Course code: AFB53B
Duration: 3 days
Fee: £2,775.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 18
Course Overview
This is a focused three-day course on central bank purpose, governance, monetary policy and systemic stability. Participants compare mandates and policy responses, examine transmission and systemic-risk channels, and strengthen approaches to crisis communication, ethics and market signalling.
Agenda
Day 1 — Adapting Mandates and Strategy in a Transforming World
- Redefining Central Bank Mandates: Climate, Digital, and Social Dimensions
- Strategic Foresight and Scenario Planning in Central Banking
- Navigating Geopolitical and Systemic Uncertainty
Day 2 — The Future of Money and Monetary Infrastructure
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): Design, Pilots, and Global Trends
- Cryptoassets, DeFi, and Monetary Sovereignty Challenges
- Cross-Border Payments, Interoperability, and BIS Innovation Hub Use Cases
Day 3 — Governance, Digital Risk, and Institutional Innovation
- AI, Automation, and the Digitalisation of Central Bank Operations
- Cybersecurity, AML/CFT, and Operational Resilience in a Digital Era
- Talent Strategy and Capability Building for Future-Ready Institutions
Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Target Audience
- Central bank strategy and transformation teams.
- Payments, CBDC and financial innovation specialists.
- Monetary operations and market operations professionals.
- Climate, ESG and sustainable finance teams.
- Cybersecurity, technology, data and operational-risk professionals.
- Financial regulators and policy advisers
Learning Outcomes
- Assess how climate, digitalisation and financial inclusion are reshaping central bank man0dates, objectives and policy boundaries.
- Use strategic-foresight approaches to identify emerging drivers, uncertainties and plausible implications for central bank strategy.
- Analyse the channels through which geopolitical risk can affect inflation, capital flows, financial stability and central bank decision-making.
- Compare key CBDC design choices and evaluate trade-offs involving privacy, intermediation, inclusion, resilience and financial stability.
- Assess the monetary, prudential and regulatory implications of crypto-assets and decentralised finance for central banks and supervisors.
- Evaluate cross-border payment innovations and BIS use cases with reference to interoperability, efficiency, governance and policy objectives.
- Evaluate practical applications of AI and automation in central banking and identify the governance, model-risk and control requirements they create.
- Assess cyber-risk and resilience frameworks required to protect critical central bank operations, data and financial infrastructure.
- Develop talent priorities that align workforce capabilities, leadership and specialist skills with a modern central bank’s transformation agenda.
