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Audit & Taxation
Posted: 09 Jul 2024

Risk, regulatory, audit & accounting seminar

15
Oct
2024

Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Location: Birmingham
Organised By: BSA Events
£395 Members/Associates & £495 Non-members

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This year's annual update will return as an in-person event held in Birmingham.

The full-day event will include the latest updates and key topics with sessions being led by a range of BSA Associates and other experts, including the PRA.

Who should attend?
The event is primarily designed for building society delegates (finance, risk and regulatory staff and
non-executives) but some content will also be relevant to credit unions.

(Registration closes at 5pm on Friday 11th October 2024)

Cancellation policy

Presentations:

Links to the presentation slides are highlighted below in blue and are available for BSA Members and Associate Members to
view and download. Please note that you must be logged into the members section of the website to view them.

If you're a non-member who attended the event and wish to see the presentations, please contact the events team who will be able
to assist: events@bsa.org.uk

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Welcome and introduction

Robin Fieth, Chief Executive, BSA

Economic update

Thomas Pugh, Economist, RSM UK
Thomas will give an update on the economic outlook for UK building societies.

PRA Supervisory update

Chris Donald, Senior Manager, PRA
Chris will provide an update to the sector about the PRA’s current supervisory strategy, policy developments, the results of recent thematic work, and other prudential priorities.

Climate risk management insights

Ruth Doubleday, Head of Prudential Regulation, BSA (Chair)
Pierre-Alexandre Germont, Director – Global Climate Risk Lead, Forvis Mazars
Xavier Larrieu, Partner - Co-head of Quantitative Solutions UK, Forvis Mazars
Pierre-Alexandre and Xavier will present insights on emerging best practices for climate risk modelling, such as for flood risk. They will also present the findings of their survey of building societies’ approaches.

Corporate Governance code

Andrew Hopkins, Policy Manager, BSA (Chair)
Saheet Gohil, Partner - EMEIA Financial Services, EY
Andrew Adeoye, Partner - Internal Audit, SOX, Governance and Controls, EY
Saheet and Andrew from EY will provide an overview of the 2024 changes to the Corporate Governance Code with a particular focus on provision 29 on risk and controls. This will be followed by a Q&A on proportionate implementation for building societies where Andrew Hopkins will give an update on the BSA annotated guide.

Solvent exit analysis

Ruth Doubleday, Head of Prudential Regulation, BSA (Chair)
Alex Brown, Partner, Deloitte
Alastair Morley, Partner, Deloitte
Tess Kelly, Partner - Financial Regulation Team, Addleshaw Goddard
Alex and Alastair will present an overview of the new solvent exit requirements in PS5/24 and SS2/24. This session will discuss the practical aspects of implementing the new requirements by the deadline of October 2025.

Transformation and/or cost optimisation

Ruth Doubleday, Head of Prudential Regulation, BSA (Chair)
Sara Forbes, Partner - Transformational Services, KPMG
Peter Westlake, Partner - Head of Building Societies and Challenger Banks, KPMG
Owen Lewis, Partner - Management Consulting, KPMG
KPMG will lead a discussion on how to manage the finance and risk aspects of large business transformation programmes, while not distracting BAU activity, and focussing on cost optimisation. (Speaker to be confirmed).

Proportionality in audit

Robin Fieth, Chief Executive, BSA (Chair)
Aisling Morgan, Policy Manager - Prudential Regulation, BSA
Patrick Healy, Chief Operating Officer, HarbourPoint AI
Daniel Brydon, Building Society Audit Partner, PwC
This session will start with a presentation of the BSA analysis of audit fees and competition by Aisling Morgan. It will then be followed by a panel discussion with PwC and Patrick Healy on why the building society audit market and audit processes are disproportionately affecting the majority of building societies, as well as how firms may look to increase efficiency in audit processes in the future.

Strong & Simple /Basel 3.1 update

Ruth Doubleday, Head of Prudential Regulation, BSA (Chair)
Oivind Andresen, Principal, Financial Services Risk and Regulatory Advisory, BDO
Oivind will present on practical implementation of Basel 3.1 and Strong & Simple.

Summary and close

Robin Fieth, Chief Executive, BSA

Speaker biographies

* Programme may be subject to change

Event Summary

Tuesday, 15 October 2024
09:30 - 16:30
The Eastside Rooms, Birmingham B7 4BL
£395 Members/Associates & £495 Non-members

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