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Agency building corporate resilience to manage blind spots
BY CHINYERE OBIORA – DataPro Limited, Africa’s fastest-growing credit rating agency, is launching an intensive, one-week boot-camp for financial operators and industry stakeholders tagged “A-Z of ERM” to elevate Enterprise Risk Management standards across the continent’s financial sector.
Designed to shift institutions from reactive handling to a value-driven, proactive risk management culture, the specialized training program aims to provide finance industry professionals with the critical technical expertise and enterprise-wide perspective necessary to navigate today’s complex economic landscape.
Participants will learn to consolidate distinct risk pillars, including credit, market, operational, compliance, and liquidity risks, into a single, unified corporate framework for executing complex risk calculations, including IFRS 9 Expected Credit Losses (ECL), VaR (Value at Risk), and EVE (Economic Value of Equity), and meeting Basel III/IV and CBN RBS (Risk-Based Supervision) requirements with confidence.
According to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of DataPro, Abimbola Adeseyoju, the One Week Bootcamp is specifically tailored to elevate risk professionals from operational executors to strategic enterprise risk leaders, building the technical proficiency, regulatory fluency, and cultural authority needed to proactively identify, integrate, and mitigate risks across the institution.
He said this would ultimately drive informed decision-making that balances regulatory compliance with sustainable business performance, stressing that the main purpose of the training is to demonstrate the ability to move beyond “siloed” thinking by integrating Credit, Operational, Market, and Liquidity risks into a single, cohesive Enterprise Risk Management framework.
Adeseyoju stated that the targeted participants in the physical training programme, scheduled to hold between August 3rd to 7th, 2026 at DataPro Academy in Lagos, include, Chief Risk Officers (CROs), Risk Manager and Officers, Finance and Treasury Officers, Compliance staff, Senior Management and Board members as well as other relevant stakeholders.
On the training benefits, the DataPro boss explained that participants are expected to acquire the technical proficiency to execute complex financial risk calculations, including IFRS 9 ECL modeling, Value at Risk (VaR) and Economic Value of Equity (EVE), while also being equipped to design and execute rigorous, multi-factor stress tests that evaluate institutional stability against “severe but plausible” macroeconomic shocks and emerging threats and lead the transition from a compliance-only mindset to a value-added risk culture, effectively utilizing the Three Lines of Defense to protect assets while optimizing risk-weighted returns.
Listing some of the courses to include, Enterprise Risk Definition, Governance & Strategy, Credit Underwriting & Risk Management, Operational Risk Management (ORM) Processes, Market & Liquidity Risk Management and Asset and Liability Management (ALM), he said Operational Risk Management (ORM) Processes would focus on the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people, and systems.
Adeseyoju further explained that this module provides the tools to identify hidden vulnerabilities and mathematically quantify potential operational impacts while techniques for mapping end-to-end processes to identify “failure points” in People, Systems, Processes, and External Events.
For Enterprise Risk Definition and Governance & Strategy, he said the training module establishes the structural and cultural bedrock of ERM, focusing on the “tone at the top,” defining how an institution identifies, communicates, and accepts risk in alignment with its strategic mission, while the Credit Underwriting and Risk Management will cover the end-to-end credit lifecycle and move from granular counter-party analysis and collateral security to portfolio-wide management and the strategic recovery of distressed debts.
