Monocle Podcasts

2022 Global Leadership Meeting Recap

Managing the Risks of the Pandemic, War and Climate Change

Click below to listen to our summary of the round table discussions from the 2022 Global Leadership Meeting held on the 23^rd of March. The conference, hosted by the European Risk Management Council and co-sponsored by Monocle, brought together over 140 risk professionals to discuss the critical risk issues facing financial institutions in 2022. Our CEO, David Buckham, was also invited to present his insights on the difficulties of modelling climate risk as part of the climate change and climate risk panel.

BA 900 Reforms - Complying with Enterprise-Wide Regulatory Reporting Reforms

Join Nhlanhla Motha, one of our Senior Executives at Monocle, as he unpacks the reporting changes from the South African Reserve Bank for the BA 900 series. These reports encompass various financial and statistical data from across banks’ balance sheets, making any amendments to these reports an effort intensive and complex initiative. In this episode, we look at the challenges that come with reforming regulatory reporting like the BA 900 series and how banks can approach reporting reforms to produce strategic solutions.

Bank Resolution - Tackling the Risk of the “Too Big to Fail” Financial Institution

Join Ntuthuko Mngomezulu, one of our Senior Executives at Monocle, as he discusses how the SARB and National Treasury aim to mitigate the risk of future bank and systemically important financial institution failures through the Financial Sector Laws Amendment Bill (FSBLAB). In this episode, Ntuthuko takes us through the shift towards resolution bail-ins, the need for new debt instruments

Finance and Risk Integration

Join us as we listen to Rheta Du Preez - our UK Consulting Director - and Jan Ehlers - one of our South African Directors - discuss the principles behind finance and risk integration in the banking industry. Data and process integration can achieve significant efficiencies across the institution however, these programmes are complex and require significant effort and buy in from various business stakeholders. We discuss what is holding back banks from successfully implementing finance and risk integration and how Monocle aims to approach and overcome these inherent challenges for our clients.

What does Consulting mean at Monocle

The term “consultant” is not easy to define and as such, what consulting means as a profession tends to vary from one firm to another. In our latest podcast, we speak to Willie Ehlers, our Chief Operating Officer, who discusses what consulting means to him and provides some key insights into the structures, training and mentorship that Monocle has in place to grow our employees into world-class consultants.

LIBOR Transition, Unravelling $400 Trillion Worth of LIBOR Loans and Derivatives

Join Wiehann Weerts as he discusses the tumultuous history of the London Interbank Offered Rate and how financial institutions around the world are gearing up for the transition to alternative risk-free rates. We look at the complexity behind the transition and how Monocle has been assisting one of Africa’s largest corporate and investment banks with their LIBOR transition engagement.

IFRS 17 Cost Allocation

Click below to listen to Phoebe Maziba discuss the requirements of IFRS 17 cost measurement and treatment. Cost allocation cannot be effectively supported through a manual excel based process and we discuss how an automated cost allocation solution can both help insurers to meet IFRS 17 compliance as well as boost insights and efficiencies.

Insights from our CEO on the Monocle Analyst Graduate Programme

“You can’t help but feel incredibly passionate and positive about the future of this country when you spend time with our grads.” – David Buckham

 

Click below to listen to our CEO, David Buckham, as he shares his insights into the Monocle Analyst Graduate Programme and provides some advice for anyone beginning a career in Management Consulting.

Deposit Insurance Scheme - Implementing a Financial Safety Net for South African Depositors

Join us as we speak to Abu Nadat, one of our Senior Executives, about his insights on the SARB’s deposit insurance scheme and what it means for the banks and banking customers of South Africa. We unpack the operational challenges of such an initiative and why a “single view of customer” is a critical capability regarding the application of the DIS and the collaboration required with the newly established governing body, the Corporation for Deposit Insurance.  

Cloud Computing - migrating your infrastructure, not your inefficiencies

Join us as we speak to Pieter Naude, one of Monocle’s Directors, talking about the advances in cloud computing that have financial institutions across the world thinking carefully about the process of migration. We unpack how Monocle helps our clients design new data architectures and manage the transition, whilst meeting all compliance obligations in the process.