CoVID19 Banking Webinar

CoVID-19 - What should Banks and Supervisory Authorities do?

Thursday 9th July 2020
11.30am (BST)

Our free webinar will focus on how banks and regulators are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the strategies being implemented to mitigate its impact on the banking sector and the manner in which the banking business is likely to evolve going forward. Our host is Amarendra Mohan, a University of Birmingham MBA Alumnus, who has the experience and knowledge from an impressive career spanning three decades, where he’s worked for organisations including the Financial Stability Institute for the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, and the Reserve Bank of India (in the role of Chief General Manager). An expert in risk, digital transformation, financial sector regulation/ supervision and financial stability from various perspectives (national and international), Amarendra is in a better position than most to offer advice on how financial institutions should navigate CoVID-19.

The COVID-19 Pandemic is several crises rolled into one. It is a public health crisis affecting millions across the globe. The necessary containment measures to limit the spread of the virus have impacted economic activity and due to the second-order effects vulnerabilities are building up in the financial sector. The World Health Organisation states that we are fighting not only a pandemic but also an “Infodemic” or misinformation arising out of fake news. The United Nations has observed that there is a major Mental Health crisis looming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID -19 pandemic will transform human lives, organisations, societies and countries in a very fundamental way. Life and businesses will never remain the same in the post-COVID 19 period.