Certified Strategic Balance Sheet Management & FTP Masterclass for African Banks

Certified Strategic Balance Sheet Management & FTP Masterclass for African Banks

OVERVIEW

Balance sheet management sits at the intersection of profitability, resilience and regulatory compliance for every banking institution. For African banks, this discipline carries distinctive weight: volatile funding markets, foreign currency scarcity and dollarisation pressures, thin and illiquid local capital markets, rapidly evolving Basel III implementation timelines across different jurisdictions, and interest rate environments shaped by inflation-targeting central banks that can shift abruptly. Treasurers and ALM practitioners across the continent are increasingly expected to manage these dynamics with the same analytical rigour as their global peers, often with less-developed data infrastructure and thinner specialist teams.

At the centre of effective balance sheet management sits a well-functioning ALCO — the forum where liquidity, interest rate risk, funding strategy and capital allocation decisions are made and owned. Alongside strong governance, Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) has become the mechanism through which banks translate balance sheet strategy into business unit accountability: pricing loans and deposits correctly, measuring true product and business unit profitability, and incentivising the right behaviour from front-line teams. Finally, the trading book, smaller in most African banks than in global peers, but no less consequential, requires its own disciplined risk management framework, particularly in the thin, sometimes volatile FX and interest rate markets that characterise the continent.

Banks that get this wrong face margin compression, liquidity stress, mispriced products that erode profitability, ALCOs that rubber-stamp rather than steer, and trading desks operating without adequate limits or oversight. Banks that get it right build a genuine strategic advantage: a resilient, well-priced, well-governed balance sheet that supports sustainable growth through changing market cycles.

The Dupleix Institute 5-Day Certified Strategic Balance Sheet Management & FTP Masterclass is a practitioner-focused, intensive open-enrolment programme designed for Treasurers, ALM Practitioners and Risk Managers across African banking institutions. The programme builds capability across four connected disciplines — effective balance sheet management (including ALCO effectiveness), financial risk management, funds transfer pricing, and trading book management — and threads AI and data analytics techniques through every module, reflecting how modern treasury functions are increasingly run.

The programme’s signature feature is an integrated, three-round Balance Sheet Simulation. Working in teams, participants manage a simulated African bank’s balance sheet through three progressively more complex rounds: first applying balance sheet management principles under a changing market scenario, then embedding a Funds Transfer Pricing framework into their simulated bank’s pricing and performance measurement and finally integrating trading book decisions into a fully consolidated balance sheet, FTP and trading strategy. The simulation converts five days of technical content into an applied, competitive, memorable learning experience.

REGISTRATION:

Investment: R14 999 Excl VAT (Online)

Investment: R21 999 Excl VAT (Face to face)

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