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A focused course, tailored for you

Board Governance Practice for Global Financial Groups

Build the governance operating system that satisfies APRA, ASX CGC, and cross-border regulators from one integrated framework.

You have three NED independence calls to document, a committee charter due for its three-year review, and an APRA CPS 510 self-assessment attestation on the horizon. The data is there. The framework for assembling it into a form the board can sign and a regulator can examine is the work.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Corporate governance at a global financial group is not one board and one regulator. It is a listed parent with ASX CGC obligations, a regulated banking subsidiary under APRA prudential standards, asset management vehicles with their own trustee governance requirements, and international entities each subject to their home regulator's governance codes. The executive who sits across all of this manages simultaneous cycles: the annual governance statement, the committee charter review schedule, the APRA CPS 510 effectiveness attestation, the board skills matrix update, and the AGM governance disclosure. The challenge is not understanding what good governance looks like. It is building and operating a documented system that can satisfy each of these obligations concurrently, produce defensible rationale when judgement is required, and scale across entities without accumulating documentation debt.

What you walk away with

Build a documented NED independence assessment framework that satisfies both ASX CGC Principles and APRA CPS 510 criteria, with a judgement memo template the board chair endorses.
Draft and maintain board committee charters that reflect current regulatory obligations and pass a three-year review without requiring a full redraft.
Run the APRA governance self-assessment process from design adequacy through effectiveness testing to attestation-ready output.
Produce an annual governance statement and board skills matrix disclosure that meets ASX CGC and ASIC requirements and holds up to proxy adviser scrutiny.
Operate a cross-entity governance register that tracks board appointments, committee memberships, and conflicts across the full corporate group.
Design the governance function's annual operating calendar so that all regulatory deadlines, committee cycles, and board review obligations are coordinated rather than concurrent and competing.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The Financial Group Governance Map

A financial group is not a flat structure. This module builds the governance map: listed parent, regulated banking subsidiary, non-bank subsidiaries, trustee entities, and international regulated entities. For each layer, you identify the applicable governance code or prudential standard, the board composition requirements, and the obligations that flow to the group governance function. The output is a one-page entity governance matrix your team can maintain and update as the group structure changes.

Module 2. NED Independence: ASX CGC and APRA Criteria

Independent director assessment is judgement-intensive and disclosure-mandatory. This module works through both the ASX CGC Principles and Recommendations criteria and the APRA CPS 510 independence requirements, identifying where they align and where they differ. You build the assessment methodology: the conflict categories, the materiality thresholds, the two-step analysis of objectivity test then board discretion, and the form of the judgement memo the board chair endorses and the governance statement references.

Module 3. The Conflicts Register as a Governance Instrument

A conflicts register that sits in a spreadsheet and gets updated annually is a compliance artefact. A conflicts register integrated into the governance function's quarterly cycle is a governance instrument. This module covers register design, the trigger events that require an update, the cross-reference process against current committee memberships, and the escalation protocol when a new entry affects an existing independence assessment or committee composition requirement.

Module 4. Committee Charter Drafting and Review Cycles

Committee charters require more than a statement of purpose. This module covers the substantive content requirements for audit, risk, remuneration, and nomination committees under ASX CGC and APRA expectations: delegated authority limits, quorum and voting rules, reporting obligations to the full board, and the interface with management terms of reference. You build a review cycle protocol so each charter is assessed against current regulatory expectations every three years without requiring a full redraft.

Module 5. APRA CPS 510 Self-Assessment: Design and Effectiveness

The APRA governance self-assessment is a two-stage exercise: design adequacy and operational effectiveness. This module walks through the structured methodology APRA expects, the evidence base required for each governance element, and how to document effectiveness findings in a form that supports the attestation and holds up to a prudential review. It includes a worked example of a self-assessment finding and a management response formatted to APRA's supervisory standard.

Module 6. Board Skills Matrix: Construction, Maintenance, and Disclosure

The board skills matrix has three audiences: the board itself for succession planning, shareholders in the annual governance statement, and proxy advisers who run their own assessment. This module covers skills category design for a diversified financial group, the assessment methodology, the disclosure format that satisfies ASX CGC without creating unintended benchmarking, and the cadence for updating the matrix in connection with director tenure reviews and board refreshment decisions.

Module 7. Cross-Jurisdictional Entity Governance

International subsidiaries each have a home regulator with their own governance code: APRA in Australia, the FCA in the UK, MAS in Singapore, HKMA in Hong Kong, FINRA and the SEC in the US. This module builds the equivalency framework: for each international entity, you identify the applicable local requirement, the overlap with the group governance standard, and where local law requires a departure. The output is a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction obligation summary the group function uses to brief entity boards.

Module 8. Board Meeting Documentation: Minutes and Resolution Standards

Minutes serve as the formal record of board deliberation, a regulatory evidence document, and the basis for directors' duty compliance. This module covers the substantive standard for minutes at an APRA-regulated institution: the level of discussion captured, the treatment of dissent, the handling of related-party item minutes, and the review and certification process. You build a minutes template and a quality checklist calibrated to the APRA regulatory evidence standard.

Module 9. Board Effectiveness Review: Internal and External Cycles

ASX CGC recommends a periodic external board effectiveness review. APRA expects evidence of board performance assessment in the governance self-assessment. This module covers both: the scope and methodology of an internal review, the triggers and structure of an external review, the outputs the board uses to set its improvement agenda, and the documentation that satisfies the APRA evidence requirement and the governance statement disclosure obligation simultaneously.

Module 10. AGM Preparation and Governance Statement

The annual governance statement is the primary public accountability document for the board. This module covers the preparation workflow: governance statement structure under ASX CGC Principle 2, NED independence disclosures, director biographical information standards, board and committee activity summaries, and the proxy adviser engagement process. It also covers the notice of meeting governance: resolution drafting, explanatory notes for remuneration report items, and the director election disclosure standard.

Module 11. Remuneration Governance: APRA CPG 511 and Committee Practice

Remuneration governance at an APRA-regulated institution is more tightly prescribed than for non-financial ASX companies. This module covers the Remuneration Committee's obligations under APRA CPG 511: remuneration framework oversight, risk-adjusted performance assessment, deferral and clawback design, and the annual remuneration report. It addresses the interface between the committee, the Chief Risk Officer, and the independent remuneration adviser, with the committee's annual review calendar built out in detail.

Module 12. Governance Risk and Regulatory Reporting

The governance function is itself subject to oversight: internal audit, the APRA supervisory relationship, and ASIC's role in enforcing director duties. This module covers the governance function's risk framework: the breach escalation protocol, the regulatory incident identification and notification process under APRA prudential standards, the internal audit interface for the governance self-assessment, and the forward regulatory calendar the board chair and governance executive use to manage regulatory interactions across the year.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

If you are preparing the annual governance statement and managing NED independence disclosures: Modules 2, 3, 6, and 10 in sequence.

If you are running an APRA CPS 510 self-assessment: Modules 5, 8, 9, and 12 with the implementation playbook evidence checklist.

If you are onboarding a new entity into the group governance framework or managing a cross-border obligation: Modules 1 and 7.

If you are conducting a committee charter review or supporting a board effectiveness cycle: Modules 4 and 9.

What you get with this course

12 written modules covering the full governance function lifecycle at a global financial group.
Downloadable templates: NED independence assessment framework, conflicts register protocol, committee charter review checklist, APRA CPS 510 self-assessment evidence matrix, board skills matrix template, governance statement disclosure guide, and cross-jurisdictional governance obligation summary.
Worked examples for independence judgement calls, self-assessment findings formatted to APRA's standard, and board minutes at the regulatory evidence threshold.
Hand-built implementation playbook tailored to your institutional regulatory context and governance structure, delivered alongside course access.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Course access and the hand-built implementation playbook are provisioned within 24 hours of purchase.

Before and after

Before

Managing governance obligations across a listed parent, a regulated banking subsidiary, and international entities as three separate compliance cycles, each with its own documentation standard, each creating overlap and fragmented evidence trails that have to be rebuilt for every regulatory touchpoint.

After

One integrated governance operating model with documented frameworks for independence assessment, committee governance, regulatory self-assessment, and cross-entity obligations, where each cycle produces evidence that serves multiple regulatory audiences without being reconstructed for each one.

What happens if you do not address this

Governance failures at financial groups are not usually about missing a deadline. They are about undocumented judgements, charters that have not kept pace with regulatory expectations, and self-assessments that assert effectiveness without evidence to support the claim. An APRA supervisory review or a proxy adviser adverse recommendation does not announce itself in advance. The documentation gap is invisible until it is not.

Who it is for

This course is for governance executives at large financial institutions and financial groups who are responsible for board committee support, entity governance documentation, regulatory governance compliance, and the operational cadence of the governance function. You have worked in governance long enough to know the obligations. What you need is a structured method for running all of them simultaneously without anything falling through.

Who this is NOT for. This course is not for students studying corporate law, for governance consultants who work project-to-project, or for company secretaries in single-entity organisations without a subsidiary structure or regulatory overlay.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. 12 modules of approximately 45 to 60 minutes each. Most governance executives work through two or three modules per week alongside their regular board cycle. The implementation playbook is ready to apply to your next governance obligation from day one of access.

Why $199 is the right number

The ASX CGC Principles and Recommendations are the public standard but they are principles, not a methodology. APRA prudential standards tell you what is required, not how to build the operational system that produces the evidence. Governance consultants charge $15,000 to $50,000 for a board effectiveness review or charter refresh. This course gives you the methodology and the templates to run those processes in-house, with the implementation playbook calibrated to your group's specific regulatory footprint.

FAQ

Does this course address both ASX CGC and APRA obligations?

Yes. The course is built for the governance executive who manages both simultaneously, which is the standard position at any ASX-listed APRA-regulated financial institution. Modules 2, 4, 5, and 11 specifically address the points where ASX CGC expectations and APRA prudential standards interact or create different requirements.

How is the implementation playbook tailored?

The playbook is hand-built after purchase based on your institution's regulatory context: which APRA prudential standards apply, which international jurisdictions your group operates in, the current committee structure, and any specific governance obligations you identify. It is not a generic template repurposed for your situation.

Is the course relevant to non-bank financial institutions as well as ADIs?

Yes, with some module focus differences. The core methodology applies across financial groups. The APRA-specific modules are written primarily for ADIs and groups with a regulated banking entity. Non-bank financial groups will find the cross-jurisdictional and ASX CGC modules directly applicable without modification.

What is the refund policy?

30-day money-back guarantee if the course does not meet your expectations. No questions asked.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.