Banks sit at the center of every economy — they finance projects, move capital, and keep businesses running, which is exactly why employers value people who understand how banking and financial institutions are actually managed.

This course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy combines applied exercises with structured training to walk participants through how banks and financial institutions operate day to day, from the accounting processes behind every decision to the broader role banks play as the main financiers of most projects.

Who Should Join This Course?

• Staff working across all types of banks and central banking bodies.
• Employees of commercial, real estate, investment and savings banks.
• Professionals in insurance and banking-related companies.
• Accountants and financial consultants serving the banking sector.
• Anyone working in private or public financial institutions.

What Participants Will Be Able to Do:

• Apply core concepts and basic rules of bank management.
• Handle accounting and banking procedures, including credit recognition.
• Correct and adjust commercial books, then settle accounts properly.
• Prepare and analyze financial statements to support decisions.

Module 1: Why Banking Matters to the Economy

• Money and its functions, and the payments system behind every transaction.
• Money and inflation, and why banks are the primary financier of most projects.

Module 2: Types and Structure of Banks

• Definition of banks and how banking functions actually work.
• Types of banks by ownership (state-owned, private, joint state-private, independent).
• Types of banks by function (commercial, agricultural, central, industrial, investment, international, regional).
• Organization and structure of the banking and financial industry.

Module 3: Regulation and Policy Impact

• Bank regulations and policies, and how government policy shapes banking practice.

Module 4: Core Banking Operations

• Credit control, and collecting and maintaining deposits.
• Securing loans and handling money transfers.
• Reading the financial statements of banks and their competitors.

Module 5: Financing Projects and Managing Capital

• Securing capital for large projects and investing in them.
• Managing and pricing deposit services, and managing nondeposit liabilities.
• Capital management fundamentals.

Module 6: Performance, Growth and Risk

• Measuring and evaluating bank performance, and what it takes to establish new banks.
• Managing liquidity and reserves.
• Risk management for changing interest rates, and through futures, options, swaps and hedging.
• Global banking trends, ethics and leadership in the sector.