Who should attend

Target group

  • ALM and Treasury Managers and Professionals: Specialists responsible for managing the bank’s balance sheet, interest rate risk, liquidity, funding and related ALCO analyses.

  • ALCO Members and ALCO Support Teams: Decision-makers and specialists involved in preparing ALCO materials, analysing balance-sheet developments, evaluating scenarios and proposing management actions.

  • Risk Managers: Professionals responsible for IRRBB, liquidity and other financial risks who need to understand how different risk factors interact under combined stress scenarios.

  • Finance, Planning and Controlling Professionals: Specialists involved in budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis and forward-looking balance-sheet and P&L projections.

  • Bank Executives and Senior Managers: Executives involved in balance-sheet strategy, risk appetite, profitability, funding and other strategic decisions supported by ALCO.

Course Description

From forward-looking scenario analysis to better balance sheet decisions

How prepared is your ALCO for several market and business shocks occurring at the same time? This webinar explores how banks can move from traditional ALCO monitoring towards forward-looking, scenario-based balance sheet management. It examines the role of ALCO in connecting interest rate risk, liquidity, funding, profitability and business strategy, while responding to evolving regulatory expectations. The course combines expert perspectives on ALCO best practices, stress testing and quantitative planning with a practical case study. Using a model bank, the case demonstrates how simultaneous changes in interest rates, inflation, economic growth, unemployment, real estate prices and funding spreads can affect the bank's balance sheet, profitability and IRRBB metrics. Participants will see how integrated scenario analysis can help ALCO understand interactions between different risk factors, evaluate possible management actions and translate quantitative results into better-informed balance sheet decisions.
Professional ALM Process: Data, Analysis and Decisions

Content

✅ 15:00 – 15:15 Welcome & Current Banking Challenges (Martin Macko)

○ Current market environment: interest rates, inflation, liquidity and macroeconomic uncertainty

○ Emerging risks and opportunities for banks

○ How ALCO reporting is evolving from monitoring to strategic decision support

○ Enhancing ALCO discussions through scenario analysis and forward-looking balance sheet insights

○ The growing role of quantitative planning in modern bank management

○ Latest regulatory developments affecting ALM and ALCO

○ Growing supervisory expectations for forward-looking risk management

○ Current regulatory challenges for banks


✅ 15:15 – 15:30 Bank performance - what success looks like (Paul Garvin)

○ Building an accurate and forward-looking view of balance sheet performance

○ Modelling future business, market and customer scenarios

○ Stress testing the balance sheet to support strategic decision-making

○ Optimising the balance sheet in line with Board objectives, risk appetite and customer needs

○ ALCO best practices: KPIs, dashboards, traffic-light reporting and management actions


✅ 15:30 – 15:55 Live Case Study: Can Your ALCO Quantify the Impact of Multiple Shocks?(Michal Lopušan)

○ Simulating an adverse macroeconomic scenario affecting interest rates, inflation, credit quality, liquidity, funding spreads and FX markets

○ Assessing impacts on profitability, liquidity position and key balance sheet metrics across the planning horizon

○ Understanding the interaction between interest rate risk (IRRBB), credit risk, and business performance

○ Evaluating alternative management actions and strategic responses available to ALCO

○ Demonstrating how integrated stress testing provides risk and balance sheet insights that support internal management and regulatory processes

○ Showing how quantitative planning can generate consistent data inputs for key risk areas (e.g. IRRBB) within the broader supervisory context


✅ 15:55 – 16:00 Expert Q&A and Closing Remarks (Moderated by Martin Macko)

Course curriculum

    1. About Bearning

    2. About QuantPlan

    3. About this course & Disclaimer

    1. Downloads

    2. Is Your ALCO Ready for the Next Shocks?

    1. Webinar Agenda

    2. Webinar Recording

    1. Before you go, please share your opinion

    2. More resources for you

About this course

  • Free
  • 9 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Instructor

CEO, Bearning Martin Macko

Martin started his career in banking in 1994 as an MM&FX Treasury trader. Later he was appointed Treasury Director and Chairman of ALCO at a subsidiary of an international banking group. In 2007, Martin founded a consulting company. Later, Bearning expanded its activities to include professional banking education in the areas of ALM & Treasury, financial markets, risk management, fintech and digitalization. Martin holds several degrees and qualifications: Ing. (equivalent to M.Sc.) from the Slovak Technical University, ACI Dipl. (ACI Dipl.) from the Financial Markets Association, Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® and Certified Banking & Credit Analyst (CBCA)™ and Capital Markets & Securities Analyst (CMSA)® from the Corporate Finance Institute.

Founder of QuantALM Michal Lopušan

Michal graduated from Comenius University in 2005 with a degree in economics and financial mathematics. Since graduation he has worked for an international banking group in Central Europe as an ALM analyst. In 2009 Michal co-founded QuantALM - Quantitative Asset Liability Management team that developed the QuantPlan tool - a strategy and scenario based modelling system that banks can use to plan and manage their balance sheets. In addition, Michal broadened his education and is a CFA charterholder.

ALM Expert Paul Garvin

is an experienced fintech, banking and management consulting professional with extensive expertise in balance sheet optimisation, quantitative planning and large-scale business transformation. He has led major change programmes across banking operations, core banking systems and strategic performance improvement initiatives, helping financial institutions strengthen decision-making, efficiency and profitability.

What makes this course different

Focus on real ALCO decisions, not isolated risk metrics | Connects multiple shocks across the entire balance sheet | Combines scenario analysis, stress testing and quantitative planning | Demonstrates the approach through a realistic bank case study

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