Algeria

Ecole Supérieure de Banque - World Bank - Mission d’audit d’évaluation

validation de l’ensemble des grilles de cours de l’Ecole Supérieure de Banque d’Algérie

Study about the strategic positioning of a training infrastructure in a given market which is changing constantly due to the vast number of structural laws laid down by the Algerian government in the field of the banking business, the privatisation of financial institutions, the insurance business, the private industry and the introduction, over a period of 10 years (horizon 2010) of an open economy as a total breach with the last 40 years.

Angola

World Bank - Technical Assistance for Training in Supervision of Financial Institutions

The objective of this assignment was to train the BNA (Banco National de Angola) / DSI (Department of supervision of Financial Institutions) staff in a large number of tools related with the enlargement of their critical capabilities, execution, the analysis and assessment in the matters related with the supervision of the institutions of the financial system.

Azerbaijan

AgroProm Bank - World Bank - Institutional Development of AgroProm Bank

Consulting services to improve operational management and financial results of AgroProm Bank.

Support the Improvement of the Investment Climate and Export Climate - EC

Institutional Development of AgroProm. The overall objective of the project is to improve economic development of the Government of Azerbaijan and reduce dependence on the oil sector. The specific objectives of the projects are:

• To promote economic diversification and exports in non oil sectors, including through increasing share listing and the country private sector attractiveness for FDI
• To foster the development of capital markets and promote portfolio investment

Belgium

King Baudouin Foundation - Study on the impact of microfinance on the beneficiaries of microcredits

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Central Bank of Bosnia-Herzegovina - EC Phare - Support and Training to BiH Central Bank

Tailor-made training and consulting services to support middle-management staff of the Central Bank

Bosnia-Herzegovina - Employment Service Agencies - EC Obnova - Human Resource Development to Reform Payment System

Training of former payment bureau workers

Burundi

FORCE I (Fonds pour la Relance, les Conseils, les Echanges en Microfinance)

Management of Relaunch Funds, Advice and Exchanges in Microfinance

The goal of the project was to facilitate the access to financial services for the population that is excluded from the ordinary banking services.

Service Public Fédéral Affaires Etrangères, Commerce Extérieur et Coopération au Développement (Belgique)

Appui institutionnel à l’activité microfinance de la BNDE

Cameroon

IFBA (International Finance and Banking Academy)

Partnership for a Common Approach to the Establishment of Training Centres in selected Sub-Saharan African Counties.

Congo (Brazzaville)

FIGA - Belgian Government and the Participation Fund - SME Creation & Development Support Mechanism - Feasibility Study

BBA has studied the feasibility of a support mechanism for SME creation and development, in the traditional sectors (trade, agriculture, construction and services), based on tried and tested tools both in Europe and in the rest of the world, especially in Africa.

Congo (RDC)

Restructuration et Viabilisation de la Caisse d’Epargne du Congo (CADECO)

Centre for the development of Enterprise

Feasibility Study on the rehabilitation of a brewery.

Czech Republic

EC EuropeAid - Strengthening the Banking Sector – Application of Basle II

Development of a study analysing Czech market from the point of appropriate internal rating criteria and other impact of the Basle II, General scoring/rating methodology, which could be adopted by individual banks or Manuals for the Czech National Bank (CNB) Banking Supervision covering following issues related to Pillar 1 of New Basel Capital Accord (NBCA).

Development and delivery of training programs on issues related to the NBCA including seminars and workshops to be organised in the CR and the training-of-trainers program

Egypt

Central Bank - EC Meda - General Bank Training for the Bank Control Department of the Central Bank

BBA developed and implemented a tailor made training program on general banking and financial markets to provide the staff members of the Bank Control Department with an overall good understanding of banking business, products and operations.

Central Bank - EC Meda - Technical assistance to foreign reserves management department

BBA developed and implemented a tailor made training program in order to deliver to certain staff of the Foreign Reserves Management Department of the Central Bank of Egypt training modules

Central Bank - EC Meda - Technical Assistance to the Central Bank on Indirect Monetary Policy

BBA provisioned Technical Assistance including scholarships and secondments

Ethiopia

Development Bank of Ethiopia - European Investment Bank - Technical Assistance Program to the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE)

This Technical Assistance included three different and separate main components:

• Organisation and provision of an in situ Core Training program;
• Organisation of an Advanced Bank Training Certification Program for selected DBE staff at a recognized bank training institute in the EU or in Africa.
• Provision of consulting services and “on-the-job” mentoring including support to DBE in preparing loan application requests to the EIB Global Loan (as well as, by extension and on an ad-hoc basis, assistance to SMEs in preparing their loan applications to DBE).

Kosovo

Kosovo Bankers Association - EC EuropeAid - Support to the Kosovo financial sector through co-funding technical assistance to the Kosovo Bankers Association (KBA)

The project aimed to further strengthen the development of an effective commercial banking services sector in Kosovo through building the institutional capacity of the KBA to design and deliver appropriate training programs for bank personnel.

Laos

The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) - EC Ala - TA for transition to Market Economy in Lao (Euro-TAL) – Bank Training Project

The project objectives were to:

• Train staff of the BOL and the State Owned Commercial Banks (SOCBs). This training program was supplemented by scholarships or secondments to local or foreign educational institutions for short or long training courses.
• Enable the Bank of Lao PDR (BOL) to set up an in-house management information system (MIS) that would be used to reinforce banking supervision.
• Identify with the SOCBs possible additions to the range of banking products currently available in Laos, and to support the marketing and promotion of all banking products to local communities so as to raise awareness of banks and the potential they offer for economic development

Latvia

Association of Latvian Commercial Banks (ALCB) - EC Phare - Bank Training

Project objectives were to:

• Strengthen the banking sector in Latvia, facilitating Latvia's integration into the EU
• Ensure adequate evolution of the ALCB adapting it to the transformations of the banking sector

Lithuania

Lithuanian Banking & Insurance Sector; Ministry of Finance; National Bank of Lithuania - EC Phare - Technical Assistance to the Financial Sector in Lithuania

• BBA provided consulting services covering all technical banking expertise for each of the banks of the Lithuanian sector
• BBA provided the development of 7 Distance Learning courses for the Lithuanian Banking & Insurance Training Institute Legal advice on the EU directives and consequent modification of the Lithuanian legislatory framework for the financial services industry

Bank of Lithuania - EC Phare - EC-Phare program: Technical Assistance for SME's in Lithuania

Montenegro

EC - TA to improve the Business Environment for Small and Rural Enterprises

Mozambique

Central Bank of Mozambique - Consultancy Services for Strengthening the Central Bank’s capacity to combat Money Laundering

• BBA provided the Banking Supervision Department (DSB) inspectors knowledge on anti-money laundering strategies, frameworks and tools
• BBA assisted in building the inspector’s capacity to verify of the different types of money laundering risks present in financial sector operations and/or institutions, and to understand the risk classification procedures, including the appropriate regulatory and supervision methods for each situation;
• BBA assisted in building the inspector’s capacity so as they can check the efficacy and efficiency of internal procedures for preventing and fighting money laundering and the funding of terrorism implemented by supervised institutions;
• BBA provided the inspectors techniques for the treatment of information on operations that are suspicious and susceptible of being used for committing these crimes.

Mozambique - Organisation of short-term courses and a Master Degree Programme Collaboration between BBA and School of Finance and Development in Maputo

Nigeria

IFBA (International Finance and Banking Academy)

Partnership for a Common Approach to the Establishment of Training Centres in selected Sub-Saharan African Counties.

Poland

Polish Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Adviser for the Public Debt Department

• Construction of Treasury Securities
• Introduction of new Types of Securities into the Capital Market

National Bank of Poland - EC Phare - Seminars & consultations

Seminars on:

• Target & giro settlement systems
• ESCB & the Maastricht Treaty
• Cross-border financial services & payments
• Financial risk minimisation
• Internal audit

Technical Assistance on Methods of analysis of payment cards risk, Risk related to new banking products, Protection of bank customers in the EU. Given that Poland is harmonising its legislation and regulation in line with the EU requirements and directives, the project enabled participants to acquaint themselves with the problems experienced by the banks of the European Union member countries related to the above mentioned topics.

Romania

BancPost - EC Phare - Establishment of Training Management Units

• Training Needs Analysis
• Performance Analysis
• Planning of Training Courses

Romanian Banking Institute - EC Phare - Long Term Training Advisor

• Identification of the Banking Institute’s training requirements;
• Assistance to the management in determining the courses to be offered;
• Assistance to the Romanian Banking Institute into the development of bank training capacity

Romanian Savings Bank (CEC) - EC-Phare

Operational Audit and Restructuring Implementation of the Romanian Savings Bank Technical Assistance and restructuring of the CEC

Russia

Chelindbank - EBRD - Russian Regional Bank Institution Building Program – Chelindbank

• Introduction of mortgage credit technology and related implementation and monitoring procedures
• Marketing improvement
• An increase and diversification of the client base

Rwanda

Paysannes du Rwanda (ROPARWA)

Evaluate operations and functionality of the fund FIFAPI (Fonds d’Investissement dans les filières agricoles porteuses et innovatrices) and recommend areas of future work to professionalize the rural micro-finance and to improve producers' access to agricultural credit.

• Foundation AGRITERRA - Evaluation of the Investment Fund FIFAPI
• Foundation AGRITERRA - Strengthening of the Investment Fund FIFAPI
• ROPARWA (Rwanda) – Organisation of a study visit of ROPARWA in Belgium and the Netherlands
• ROPARWA (Rwanda) – Implementation of the ROPARWA training programme
• ASBL Aquadev - Assistance to set up a Guarantee Fund
• The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation - Institutional Support to the Banque Rwandaise de Développement (BRD) regarding microfinance activities
• Centre for the development of Enterprise - Operational audit of the Insurance company CORAR

Senegal

International Finance and Banking Academy (IFBA): Partnership for a Common Approach to the Establishment of Training Centres in selected Sub-Saharan African Counties.

Slovakia

Slovak Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Feasibility Study for the Capital Market

Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Consulting Services

• “Revision of the Collective Investment Law”: setting up of seminars on the introduction of a new legislation on capital markets
• “Revision of the Securities Law”: providing the Ministry of Finance with a legislation fully in accordance with the European directives and the Member States’ laws, and among others a new law on Securities.

Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Collective Investment Fund Support

• Finalisation of the draft of the law on Collective Investment and prepare amendments
• Transformation of closed end Undertakings for Collective Investment into open ended
• Creation of new open end UCI according to EU standards

Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Supervision and Legal Issues

• Establishment of the Securities Commission as an independent body
• Elaboration of an adequate legal and regulatory model based on EU requirements
• Assistance in organisation, structure, HR and technical issues
• Professional expertise development/staff training

National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) - EC Phare - Technical assistance to the PIU at the National Bank of Slovakia

National Bank - EC Phare - Strengthening National Bank - Banking Supervision / Credit Register

CFCU of the Ministry of Finance of Slovak Republic - EC EuropeAid - Support to the Implementation of the Risk-based Supervision

Syria

Fund Management Unit - European Investment Bank - Technical Assistance for the Management of the SME Credit Facility in Syria

The role of the Technical Assistance was to assist the Fund Management Unit, composed of local members selected by the project promoter, in charge of managing the Bank’s credit facility (SME fund) in Syria.

Tanzania

IFBA (International Finance and Banking Academy)

Partnership for a Common Approach to the Establishment of Training Centres in selected Sub-Saharan African Counties.

Tunisia

Technical Assistance for the “Union Tunisienne de Banques (UTB)”

The goal of this mission was:

• Making the financial savings of the Tunisians in France, and Europe, grow and making the volumes of transfers towards the bank grow
• Channelize the transfers of Tunisian migrants towards the realization of projects in Tunisia, within the framework of the promotion of micro projects and small projects and also encourage the participation in the funding of larger production projects or of infrastructure who rely on the availability of public savings

Togo

World Bank - Analysis of the need for training of the commercial banks and the modalities to implement these trainings

The goal of this mission was to elaborate a training plan to strengthen the capacity of the staff, making the performance of all commercial banks in Togo grow. Therefore this plan allowed:

• To develop and improve the competences of the employees by managing the consequences of changes such as economical, technological, sociological and structural, and also to anticipate on these different types of changes
• To improve the competitiveness of the commercial banks while maintaining the employability of the salaries
• To enlarge the efficiency of the employees’ know-how, their capacity to innovate, their creativity and adaptation towards the demands of the market and the concurrence
• To acquire a competitive advantage to cope with competitors
• To allow the conceptualization of strategies of development and the growth for the banks

Turkey

Iller Bank

The purpose of the project was the strengthening the Iller Bank's institutional capacity for raising effectiveness of investments required by heavy-cost investment EU environmental directives. Training and technical assistance services under banking capacity assessment, financial-economic evaluation of EU-financed projects and technical/financial compliance with EU Acquis components were performed within the scope of the assignment.

FWC-Lot 10 (EC) - TA for strengthening the Audit Capacity of the Capital Markets Board of Turkey

The global objective of this assignment was to implement a regulation about IT Governance/Audit in securities market. The specific objectives were:

• To observe the legislation/standards and best practices (i.e. COBIT; ISO27001, ITIL, SOX) that securities and financial sector regulatory bodies in member states and in the world comply with while auditing the market participants,
• To apply the collected knowledge to the securities market.

EC program: Support to the CFCU, NAC and NAO in Turkey

Ukraine

National Bank of Ukraine - EC EuropeAid - Support of the process of adapting the Ukrainian Banking Sector to the Laws, Standards and Principles of the European Union

The project goal was to conduct a comparative analysis of the laws, including subordinate legislation, standards and rules applied in Ukraine and in the EU in the areas of banking legislature, monetary and foreign exchange rate policies as well as to reveal and eliminate the non-compliances of the EU laws in the mentioned areas.Therefore, the project was aimed directly to the improvement of the banking system of Ukraine and its adaptation to the banking system of the European Union in particular, and to the EU economic model, on the whole.

Zambia

IFBA (International Finance and Banking Academy)

Partnership for a Common Approach to the Establishment of Training Centres in selected Sub-Saharan African Counties.