AI Governance PractitionerIntermediateSelf-paced (~13 hours)7 modules

AI Governance & Model Risk for Financial Services

Govern AI safely and accelerate deployment under EU AI Act, PRA SS1/23, FCA SYSC, and DORA. Three-lines-of-defence design for AI in regulated environments.

This course is built for chief risk officers, heads of compliance, model risk leaders, AI governance partners, and second-line professionals in banking, insurance, asset management, and other regulated environments. It assumes you have a working understanding of risk management and regulatory compliance, and that you have begun to encounter AI use cases that don't fit neatly into your existing model risk framework.

We start from a contrarian premise: governance done well is an accelerator of AI deployment, not a brake on it. Most organisations experience AI governance as the function that says no, slows things down, and demands documentation that nobody reads. Done properly, governance is the function that unblocks AI work — by removing the institutional friction that normally kills enterprise AI initiatives, by giving the business a defensible posture in front of regulators, and by turning compliance into a competitive advantage rather than a tax.

Across seven modules you will learn how AI fits into existing model risk frameworks (and where it breaks them), how to design three-lines-of-defence for AI deployments, how to map AI use cases to the EU AI Act risk tiers and PRA SS1/23 model lifecycle expectations, how to build governance that operates inside the workflow rather than alongside it, and how to handle the operational realities of model monitoring, drift, override tracking, and incident response. Every framework is mapped to specific regulatory expectations across the EU, UK, and US.

This course pairs with our AI Enablement service and the supporting pillar essay on AI enablement. Complete all seven modules and pass the final assessment to earn your AI Governance Practitioner certification from Insight Centric.

Curriculum

7 modules · Self-paced (~13 hours)

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  1. 01

    Governance as Accelerator, Not Brake

    Why most enterprises experience AI governance as the function that blocks deployment, and how to design it as the function that unblocks deployment instead.

  2. 02

    The Regulatory Landscape — EU AI Act, PRA SS1/23, FCA, DORA

    What the major financial-services AI regulations actually require, where they overlap, and which parts shape day-to-day governance decisions.

  3. 03

    Mapping AI Use Cases to Risk Tiers

    How to triage your portfolio of AI use cases against the EU AI Act, SS1/23, FCA, and DORA — and produce a working risk view in 30 days.

  4. 04

    Three Lines of Defence for AI

    How to redraw the classic 3LoD structure for AI use cases that don't fit the legacy model — and what each line actually does for an AI deployment.

  5. 05

    Embedded Governance — Making It Live Inside the Workflow

    How to operationalise AI governance so it lives inside the workflow rather than parallel to it, with patterns for evidence capture, decision logs, and continuous oversight.

  6. 06

    Model Risk Operations — Monitoring, Drift, Overrides, Incidents

    The day-to-day machinery of running a deployed AI system in good standing — monitoring, drift detection, override review, and incident response.

  7. 07

    The Governance Roadmap — 12-24 Months to a Mature Posture

    How to sequence the build of mature AI governance over 12-24 months without losing your stakeholders or your political capital.

  8. Final Exam — AI Governance Practitioner

    Unlocks after all modules. Pass mark 70%. Printable certificate on completion.

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