The Bank of the Lao, together with the Bank of Korea, held a seminar under the 2024 Bank of Korea Knowledge Partnership Programme to summarise the programme’s implementation and present research on “Implementing Risk-Based Supervision (RBS) methods for Bank Supervision”, including a case study on the Bank of the Lao PDR’s bank supervision approach. The half-day event in Vientiane brought together 35 participants, including Bank of Korea experts and researchers from South Korean universities, as well as Bank of the Lao staff and representatives from its banking supervision and non-bank financial institution supervision functions. Discussions focused on practical lessons in risk-based supervision, including credit risk assessment, supervisor analysis and inspections aligned to individual banks’ risk profiles, and approaches to estimating costs and impacts from exchange rate volatility and depreciation of the Lao kip.
Bank of the Lao 2025-01-21
Bank of the Lao and Bank of Korea hold BOK KPP seminar on implementing risk based bank supervision methods
The Bank of the Lao and the Bank of Korea held a seminar under the 2024 Bank of Korea Knowledge Partnership Programme to discuss implementing Risk-Based Supervision (RBS) methods for bank supervision. The event in Vientiane featured lessons on credit risk assessment, supervisor analysis, and inspections tailored to banks' risk profiles, as well as strategies for estimating costs and impacts from exchange rate volatility and depreciation of the Lao kip.