Global qualifications and training must be locally relevant. So we work with regional partners and trainers to ensure our training has local context.
We’re proud to work with governments, financial institutions and other partners around the world to help build the skills and capacity the global banking system needs.
Risk Coalition
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Risk Coalition
The Risk Coalition is a network of not-for-profit professional bodies and membership organisations committed to raising the standards of risk governance in the UK.
The Risk Coalition published Raising the Bar in December 2019 to provide coherent, high quality, principles-based good practice guidance for board risk committees and risk functions in the UK financial services sector.
The Risk Coalition’s objectives for Raising the Bar are to:
ADGMA
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ADGMA
The Abu Dhabi Global Market is an award-winning global financial centre with a strong sustainable finance agenda. In 2018 we worked closely with ADGM to set up ADGM Academy (ADGMA).
The ADGM Academy (ADGMA) was established with a government mandate to be a leading provider of world-class financial research, training and literacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
To support ADGMA, LIBF has an office in Abu Dhabi, which caters to the education and training needs of the banking and finance sector in the Gulf Council Countries and the MENA region.
We work in close partnership with ADGMA to create and deliver training and education in banking and finance. This includes bespoke learning programmes in governance, risk and regulation.
Asian Banking School, Malaysia
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Asian Banking School, Malaysia
Senior bankers have the technical know-how to deal with the financial fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. But they may lack the soft skills needed to manage the emotional toll on employees.
We worked with the Asia Banking School in 2020–21, to co-deliver five modules of training to senior bankers across Malaysia. Together we set out to help banks deal the current crisis, including ‘soft’ risks, such as:
We’re currently developing more programmes with the Asian Banking School.
Kuwait Institute of Banking Studies (KIBS)
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Kuwait Institute of Banking Studies (KIBS)
We ran a series of successful training programmes at board level for banks in Kuwait on cyber-security.
We have an ongoing exchange with the Kuwait Institute of Banking Studies – sharing content and ideas as well as supporting each other to deliver courses for board and senior management.
Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF)
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Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF)
We ran a series of successful training programmes at board level for banks in Bahrain on early-warning signals.
We have an ongoing exchange with the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance – sharing content and ideas as well as supporting each other to deliver courses for board and senior management.
Académie des Banques et Finance (ABF) de Tunisie
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Académie des Banques et Finance (ABF) de Tunisie
ABF is an association of all the Tunisian banks and financial institutions, founded in 2010 to create an academy dedicated to training professionals in financial services in Tunisia.
Working with trainers from both ABF and IFID, we created an extended training programme for the Tunisian Ministry of Finance and a shorter course for non-executive directors on the boards of Tunisia’s largest banks. Both programmes combined technical knowledge and soft skills with real-life practical learning.
More recently, to help during the Covid-19 crisis, we ran a tailored programme covering all aspects of bank governance in a crisis.
Institut De Financement Du Développement Du Maghreb Arabe (IFID)
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Institut De Financement Du Développement Du Maghreb Arabe (IFID)
L’Institut De Financement Du Développement Du Maghreb Arabe (IFID) – or the Institute of the Arab Maghreb Development Financing – was founded in 1981 by the governments of Tunisia and Algeria. IFID’s purpose is to promote education in banking and finance across the Maghreb.
IFID trains staff at the Tunisian Ministry of Finance and for the large banks. Many of IFID’s graduates reach the top of the banking and finance sector in North Africa.
Working with trainers from both ABF and IFID, we created an extended training programme for the Tunisian Ministry of Finance and a shorter course for non-executive directors on the boards of Tunisia’s largest banks. Both programmes combined technical knowledge and soft skills with real-life practical learning.
More recently, to help during the Covid-19 crisis, we ran a tailored programme covering all aspects of bank governance in a crisis.
Ouida Taaffe considers how metaverse will require regulated financial services providers to respond.
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Ouida Taaffe looks at senior executive work culture and the risks of toxic workplace attitudes at senior level.
Ouida Taaffe speaks to Stuart Tootal about how senior executives can seek useful advice from former military personnel.
Derek Leatherdale looks at geopolitical risk and how this topic could impact financial institutions.
Maria Philips discusses the need for fintech companies to invest in risk and compliance technology.