Risk Management and Internal Controls Seminar

Course Overview

This course is designed to provide examiners with an understanding of the importance of internal controls and risk management in banks, and how the review of internal controls and risk management fits into the overall bank rating assessment. The course is also intended to give examiners guidance on assessing the risk management and internal control environment in key functions such as credit administration, investments, trading operations, deposits, and payment systems risk.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this 4 day seminar, the participant will have:

• Gained an overall understanding of key risk management and internal control concepts.
• Understood the role of internal and external audits and the internal control environment in a bank.
• Become familiar with the role of information technology in banking institutions and the general risk factors and control areas.
• Developed examination skills for assessing the risk management and internal control environment of banks in such areas as lending function management and operating areas (funding transfer, trading and investments, trade finance/letters of credit, etc.), resulting in the assignment of an internal control rating.
• Developed the ability to apply risk management and internal control exmaination concepts consistently among banks.

Type of Participant Targeted

This program is for all examiners with more than six months of field examination experience.

Washington, D.C. 

Supervision and Regulation International Training and Assistance Team

Registration Deadline: July 20, 2026

Registration for all programs will open on March 3, 2026, and applications will be reviewed as they are received within the registration period. 

Registration closes two weeks prior to the start of the program.