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The Bank Run: Leading a Financial Institution Through a Liquidity Panic

For chief executives, directors and senior managers of African banks and deposit-takers. Command the first hours of a run, build the liquidity picture, work with the regulator, serve frightened customers and rebuild confidence. Includes a live boardroom simulation.

  • Price₦325,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelExecutive
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, chairs, treasurers, risk and retail heads of African banks, microfinance banks and deposit-taking institutions.

What you will learn

  • Recognise the signals of a run and take command within the first hour
  • Run a small crisis cell with an hourly dashboard and a survival horizon
  • List and rank every source of liquidity, and stress the plan
  • Engage the regulator and central bank early, honestly and in writing
  • Keep branches and digital channels open, calm and safe for customers
  • Communicate with facts, in order, and treat all depositors fairly
  • Rebuild confidence and fix the weaknesses the run exposed

Course outline

  1. Anatomy of a run
  2. The first hours: command and facts
  3. Liquidity in numbers
  4. The regulator and the central bank
  5. Branches, channels and customers
  6. Communications under a rumour
  7. Big depositors and counterparties
  8. Hard decisions
  9. After the storm: rebuilding confidence
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Executive · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days