Basel Disclosure and Regulatory Reporting Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Regulatory Reporting Managers, Financial Controllers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-RM-086

Before you join: Participants should have working familiarity with bank financial statements, regulatory capital concepts and the purpose of prudential reporting.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Basel Pillar 3 disclosures expose a bank’s capital strength, risk profile, risk-weighted assets and liquidity position to investors, counterparties and supervisors. The work is demanding because published tables and narratives must reconcile to prudential returns, financial statements, risk systems and approved methodologies. Weak ownership, incomplete data lineage, late adjustments or inconsistent explanations can create supervisory findings, publication delays and loss of market confidence.

This course develops the practical reporting skills needed to manage Pillar 3 disclosure production under the Basel Framework. Participants examine disclosure scope, fixed and flexible templates, qualitative risk narratives, capital composition, leverage ratio, credit risk, market risk, operational risk, liquidity and risk-weighted asset disclosures. They learn to map regulatory requirements to local rules, establish template inventories, trace data to source systems, reconcile key metrics and explain material movements.

The programme is instructor-led over five days, delivered in a classroom in 50+ cities or live online. Short technical briefings are combined with banking cases, reporting pack reviews, reconciliation tasks, control-design discussions and group analysis of disclosure issues. Participants work with realistic examples drawn from bank reporting cycles, including RWA movements, liquidity ratios, capital reconciliations and supervisory challenge. Each participant receives a certificate of completion and leaves with a reusable Pillar 3 reporting toolkit.

The course is designed for finance, regulatory reporting, risk, treasury, data governance, compliance and internal audit professionals working in banks, banking groups and prudentially regulated financial institutions. It is also relevant to professionals supporting Basel implementation, reporting transformation or disclosure assurance.

What you will be able to do

  • Interpret Basel Pillar 3 disclosure requirements, scope rules and publication obligations
  • Map Pillar 3 templates to prudential returns, financial statements and source systems
  • Construct a disclosure inventory with ownership, deadlines and evidence requirements
  • Reconcile capital, leverage, liquidity and RWA disclosures using documented control procedures
  • Apply BCBS 239 data lineage and risk-data aggregation principles to reporting data
  • Draft qualitative risk disclosures that align with quantitative tables and governance evidence
  • Evaluate disclosure controls, review evidence and escalation arrangements for material exceptions
  • Prepare a risk-based improvement plan for a Pillar 3 reporting process

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Confidence interpreting Pillar 3 templates and disclosure instructions
  • Practical skill reconciling published ratios to regulatory source data
  • A stronger basis for reviewing risk narratives and quantitative movements
  • Evidence for expanded responsibility in regulatory reporting or risk reporting roles
  • A reusable approach for responding to disclosure exceptions and supervisory queries

For your organisation

  • More reliable reconciliation between Pillar 3 disclosures and prudential submissions
  • Clearer ownership and approval evidence across the disclosure production cycle
  • Earlier identification of data-quality issues, late adjustments and reporting gaps
  • More consistent explanations of capital, liquidity and RWA movements
  • Better readiness for internal audit, external assurance and supervisory review

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can determine which Pillar 3 requirements apply to an entity, reporting perimeter and publication cycle.

  • Purpose, scope and market discipline within Basel Framework Pillar 3
  • Disclosure perimeter: consolidated groups, significant subsidiaries and material risk exposures
  • Frequency, reporting dates and publication channels for Basel disclosures
  • Materiality, proprietary information and confidentiality exemptions under Pillar 3
  • Qualitative versus quantitative disclosures and required narrative explanations
  • Mapping Basel standards to local implementation rules and supervisory expectations

Participants can interpret required templates and build a controlled inventory of disclosure obligations.

  • Fixed templates, flexible templates and tables in the Pillar 3 framework
  • Template instruction reading: scope, columns, rows, units and sign conventions
  • Reconcile reporting currency, consolidation basis and reference dates before drafting
  • Distinguish mandatory templates from jurisdiction-specific formats and supervisory add-ons
  • Apply proportionality provisions without omitting material required disclosures
  • Build a disclosure inventory linked to owners and source systems

Participants can design governance, accountability and production schedules for a Pillar 3 reporting cycle.

  • Board-approved disclosure policy, governance structure and documented accountability
  • Three-lines model roles for Finance, Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit
  • Disclosure committee terms of reference, escalation thresholds and sign-off evidence
  • Assign RACI responsibilities for template preparation, challenge, approval and publication
  • Maintain change logs for methodology, template and regulatory rule amendments
  • Design production calendars around close, validation, governance and release milestones

Participants can trace disclosure data from source systems through calculations to published outputs.

  • BCBS 239 principles applied to Pillar 3 risk-data aggregation
  • Trace template cells through transformations to authoritative source data
  • Data lineage records covering source, owner, calculation and control evidence
  • Define critical data elements, reporting hierarchies and reference-data controls
  • Perform completeness, accuracy, timeliness and reconciliation control procedures
  • Document manual adjustments with rationale, approval and repeatability assessment

Participants can analyse and explain RWA disclosures across major Basel risk categories.

  • Credit risk RWA disclosures under standardised and internal ratings-based approaches
  • Reconcile exposure values, credit risk adjustments, CRM and RWA
  • Explain counterparty credit risk, CCR exposures and central clearing disclosures
  • Market risk disclosures for standardised approach and internal models approach
  • Operational risk RWA reporting under Basel III final reforms
  • Interpret RWA flow statements, drivers and period-on-period movements

Participants can prepare and review disclosures on regulatory capital, leverage and eligible liabilities.

  • Capital composition disclosures: CET1, AT1, Tier 2 and deductions
  • Map regulatory capital instruments to balance-sheet and prudential reporting data
  • Calculate leverage ratio exposure measure and disclose numerator reconciliations
  • Present total loss-absorbing capacity disclosures for applicable resolution entities
  • Analyse capital buffers, transitional arrangements and distribution restrictions
  • Explain material differences between accounting equity and regulatory capital

Participants can interpret and reconcile Pillar 3 liquidity and funding disclosures.

  • Liquidity Coverage Ratio disclosures: HQLA, outflows, inflows and averages
  • Net Stable Funding Ratio reporting: available and required stable funding
  • Reconcile liquidity metrics to treasury systems and regulatory submissions
  • Describe liquidity risk management, funding concentrations and contingency plans
  • Apply disclosure requirements for encumbered assets and collateral positions
  • Assess quarter-end window dressing risk in liquidity disclosures

Participants can draft risk narratives that are consistent with quantitative disclosures and governance evidence.

  • Risk governance disclosures linking board oversight, appetite and management information
  • Credit risk narrative covering underwriting, monitoring, impairment and concentration limits
  • Market risk disclosures addressing limits, valuation controls and stress testing
  • Operational risk management narrative, event data and scenario analysis
  • Interest rate risk in banking book disclosures and measurement approaches
  • Connect ICAAP, stress testing and recovery planning to Pillar 3

Participants can operate a control framework that supports accurate, reviewable and auditable disclosures.

  • Disclosure control framework using preventive, detective and compensating controls
  • Reconcile Pillar 3 metrics to FINREP, COREP and published financial statements
  • Investigate variance thresholds through root-cause analysis and documented challenge
  • Operate maker-checker review, evidence retention and version-control procedures
  • Prepare internal audit-ready workpapers for key templates and narrative claims
  • Plan external assurance interactions and management representation support

Participants can prioritise reporting improvements and manage Basel-driven disclosure change.

  • End-to-end reporting workflow from data extraction through publication and archiving
  • Assess Basel reform implementation impacts on templates, systems and governance
  • Prioritise remediation using risk-based gaps, dependencies and accountable owners
  • Create management dashboards for timeliness, exceptions, adjustments and control status
  • Respond to supervisory queries with traceable evidence and consistent explanations
  • Develop a 90-day disclosure improvement plan with measurable milestones

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Pillar 3 disclosure inventory template
  2. Disclosure production RACI matrix
  3. Regulatory data lineage map
  4. Capital and RWA reconciliation checklist
  5. Disclosure control and evidence register
  6. 90-day reporting improvement plan

Who should attend

  • Regulatory Reporting Managers — responsible for timely, accurate prudential disclosures
  • Financial Controllers — reconcile published disclosures with accounts and capital reporting
  • Risk Reporting Managers — own risk metrics, narratives and management challenge
  • Treasury and Liquidity Managers — prepare LCR, NSFR and funding-related disclosures
  • Data Governance Specialists — establish lineage, ownership and data-quality controls
  • Internal Auditors and Compliance Managers — assess disclosure governance and control evidence

Skills and tools covered

Pillar 3 reportingRegulatory data lineageRWA reconciliationDisclosure governanceLiquidity disclosureReporting controls

Tools and standards

Basel Framework, BCBS Pillar 3 disclosure requirements, BCBS 239 Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting, XBRL

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish Basel requirements, followed by bank-reporting cases, template interpretation, reconciliation analysis and control-design discussions. Participants review realistic disclosures, identify reporting dependencies and assess why figures or narratives may not align. Group work addresses ownership, data lineage, validation and escalation decisions. Facilitated simulations focus on disclosure committee challenge and supervisory questions. The final sessions translate course methods into a practical improvement plan for each participant’s reporting environment.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have working familiarity with bank financial statements, regulatory capital concepts and the purpose of prudential reporting. Experience in finance, risk, treasury, regulatory reporting, audit or data management is useful. Participants should be comfortable reading tables, ratios and reconciliations, including common capital and liquidity metrics. Prior exposure to Basel III, COREP, FINREP or local prudential returns is helpful but not essential. The course does not require advanced quantitative modelling, coding, XBRL development or prior responsibility for a published Pillar 3 report.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand basic bank financial reporting, capital ratios and risk concepts. Previous experience with Basel III, COREP, FINREP or Pillar 3 is useful but not required.

Bring a laptop if permitted by your organisation and any non-confidential examples of reporting issues, templates or control questions. Course materials are provided, and no specialist software is required.

It is intended for professionals who prepare, review, govern or assure bank regulatory disclosures. Finance, risk, treasury, reporting, data governance, compliance and audit staff will benefit most.

A general Basel III course focuses on prudential capital, liquidity and risk requirements. This course concentrates on turning those requirements into controlled Pillar 3 disclosures, reconciliations, narratives and publication evidence.

Participants can use the disclosure inventory, lineage map, reconciliation checklist and control register during their next reporting cycle. The methods also support gap assessments, reporting transformation and responses to audit or supervisory questions.

Each day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. The five days progress from requirements and templates through data, risk disclosures, controls and a reporting improvement plan.

Questions about this course?

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