As a part of ongoing efforts to the capacity building of State Bank of Pakistan’s employees of Banking Cluster, Banking Surveillance Department organized a half-day workshop on “Stress Testing” on Thursday, 23 November, 2006 at the SBP Learning Resource Centre, Karachi.

The purpose of the Workshop was to get officials in loop to familiarize them with the Stress Testing, its Needs, Uses, Guidelines issued by the SBP, Stress Testing by Financial Institutions & their Understanding of the key issues; Reporting formats; Future roadmap, and learning from the best international practices. Total 40 officers from Banking Cluster including the Banking Inspection (On-site) Department (BID), Off-site Supervision & Enforcement Department (OSED), SME & Microfinance Department (SME&MFD), Banking Policy & Regulation Department and Banking Surveillance Department participated in the said Workshop. List of the participants enclosed. (Attachment -1 in MS Word format).

Group Activity:

Group Activity was also undertaken in the Workshop. The participants were divided into Five groups of different departments and assigned them with the tasks of:

1. Identifying the Risk Stress Scenarios for the banks operating in Pakistan.
2. Proposed level of Stress applied to those Risk/Stress Scenarios.

At the end of the Workshop, participants shared their views on the exercise submitted by each group and knowledge gained during the session.
The Resource Persons for the workshop were Mr. Muhammad Akhtar Javed, Joint Director and Ms. Rizwana Rifat, Assistant Director of BSD. Following Presentation was made during the half-day session:

Presentation: (Attachment-2. in MS Powerpoint format).