About this Lesson

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Risk management is more than identifying potential threats. It is about understanding how risks connect, whether your controls work in practice, and how leadership makes informed decisions when exposure exceeds acceptable limits.

This practical session explores the foundations of risk management for fintechs and financial institutions, connecting risk frameworks with real organisational responsibilities and decision-making.

What’s covered?

• Risk appetite and exposure – understanding risk appetite, tolerance and limits, inherent versus residual risk, and what the gap between them reveals about your controls.
• The 11 interconnected risk groups – exploring risks ranging from governance and ICT to ESG and financial crime, and understanding why risks should be viewed as an interconnected system rather than isolated categories.
• Governance and accountability – understanding the three lines of defence and the responsibilities of the Board, senior management, risk and compliance, information security and internal audit.
• Threats, vulnerabilities and controls – learning how to distinguish between them and assess whether controls are properly designed and operating effectively.
• KPIs vs KRIs – understanding the difference between performance and risk indicators, and why business growth should never come at the expense of effective risk management.
• When risk exceeds appetite – exploring how the Board should respond when residual risk goes beyond acceptable limits, including four possible actions: structural redesign, explicit contraction, genuine risk transfer or conscious acceptance.

Who is this lesson for?

This session is relevant for professionals working in risk management, compliance, governance, information security, financial crime prevention, senior management, and Board-level decision-making.

Whether you are building a risk management framework, strengthening existing controls, or making strategic decisions about risk exposure, this session offers a practical perspective on how the different pieces fit together.

Your learning experience

The session includes a 40-minute expert presentation, followed by a 1-hour, 11-minute Q&A and open discussion, making the total learning experience approximately 1 hour and 52 minutes.

🎓 Participants receive a certificate of attendance upon completion.

Webinar recording access fee

Members: €50 + VAT
Non-members: €75 + VAT