The British Academy for Training and Development offers a Sustainable Banking training course. This crisis has shown that the appropriate resilience to environment and social (E&S) risks is becoming increasingly salient. The lessons from COVID-19 reveal a gilt-edged warning that climate change and natural losses can affect people's lives; like the 2008 financial crisis, such levels of financial industry turmoil have left the world over. Thus, moving into the future will become all the more relevant for such an institution as banks or other financial institutions to implement all proper measures to alleviate these emergencies.

Banking transformations are speeding up due to all these shocks. The banking sector will play a pivotal role in the delivery of sustainable development, the new intermediation will become a requisite for mobilising and channeling financial resources toward sustainable objectives. Sustainable banks will integrate ESG-sustainable impact into their traditional banking models and then consider such benefits as a major target of ESG. Historically, capital market decisions were premised on two dimensional risk and return analyses. The new paradigm of sustainable banking will revolve around three dimensions, namely: risk, return, and impact.

This Sustainable Banking training course will provide attendees with all of the principles and latest tools for enabling sustainable banking, both on the daily internal operations regarding how to run the physical branches/locations, human capital, costs, opportunities, risks-exposures and on activities that relate to external interactions with the clients, as well as what types of funded projects.

Fundamentals of Sustainable Banking

• Concept of Sustainable Banking

• Objectives of Sustainable Banking

• Environmental, Social & Governance issues

• Principles of Sustainable Banking

• Products & Services of Sustainable Banking

• The Sustainable Bonds Market

• Progress on Sustainable Banking

Banking Commitment to Sustainability

• Redefine the Mission

• Evaluate the Portfolio

• Redefine the Strategy

• Publish Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Metrics

• Build Capacity, Train, Motivate, and Reward Employees

• Foster Innovation

• Identify Key Performance Indicators

Governance in Sustainable Banking

• Principles and Practices in Corporate Governance

• Ensure Adequate Information Disclosure

• Ensure Fair and Inclusive Retail Financing Practices

• Establish a Complaint Mechanism

• Develop Responsibility Guidelines

• Disclose Details of Important Clients

• Support Transparency within the Extractive Industries

Risk Management in Sustainable Banking

• Redefinition of Risk

• Evaluate & Measure Risk

• Minimizing Social and Environmental Risks

• Define the Scope of Policies

• Environmental and Social Risk Management System

• Accept responsibility for Indirect Impacts

• Accept responsibility in Sphere of Influence

Sustainable Banking in Practice

• Reputational Benefits and Regulatory Requirements

• Energy Efficiency and Financial Inclusion

• New Sustainability Initiatives

• Environmental and Social Capacity Building

• Improved Brand Value and Reduced Costs

• Improved engagement by the regulatory and international organisation