Albania

Albania - Marketing

Course on Marketing Policies

Algeria

Institut Supérieur de Gestion et Planification - Belgian Government

Computer-based knowledge profile evaluation system. Delivery of a dedicated software + training of the trainers to implement the principles of knowledge based profiling and evaluation

Institut Supérieur de Gestion et Planification - EC program - Long Term Training Project

• Setting up an interbank learning centre (Computer-based Training)
• Implementation of a knowledge profile evaluation system
• Bank simulation program ‘Fundamentals of Bank Financial Management’, including training of local trainers
• Bank simulation program ‘Bank Financial Management’ (advanced version)
• Bank Strategic Management (Project Based Training)
• Marketing of Financial Products – Seminar
• Commercial Organisation & Negotiations –Training
• Organisation of specialised seminars
• Implementation of a computer-based training

International Finance and Business Academy (IFBA) - BBA in collaboration with HEC - Master’s degree in Banking

A two-year degree composed of 15 modules organised in Algeria.

Belgium

Randstad Interlabor - Buro & Design Center - Organizational audit and business process reengineering

BBA was invited to carry out a business process analysis job that looked at Randstad’s actual processes and assessed how they could support the new multi-tier Major Account Development (MAD) structure recently decided upon by the Managing Director. Where weaknesses were detected, BBA made recommendations to streamline the processes so as to support fully the new MAD structure.

In collaboration with ‘ICHEC-Entreprises (Brussels)’ – Modular training programme titled « Diplôme Spécial en Microfinance »

The Federal Public Service Economy, SMEs, independent Professions and Energy (Belgium)

Organisation of seminars to promote Women Entrepreneurship

Belgium - Master’s degree in Banking – BBA in collaboration with UAMS and the VUB

A two-year program organised in Brussels. UAMS delivered the diploma to the students.

Burundi

Association des Banques et Institutions Financières du Burundi

Bilateral agreement - Short term training courses

Czech Republic

Banking Institute - EC Phare - Development and implementation of a Distance Learning Banking Curriculum

Banking Institute - Flemish Government - Development of a customised Computer-Based Training Course on the principles of a Free Market Economy

Train-The-Trainers courses on computer-based training (CBT) programming + application in the development of a translated and customised CBT course on Economics

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

EC-program: Capital Market Legislation & Securities Commission - Legislation and Institutional Building

Czech Republic - EC-program: Implementation of the EU Payment Systems Standards

Estonia

Estonian Bankers’ Association - EC Phare - Development and implementation of a Distance Learning Banking Curriculum

• Development of course text books in Distance Learning format (including workbooks, exam preparation book, support session manual)
• Training of local trainers in guiding support sessions for Distance Learning participants
• Setting up administration, examination and certification systems
• Study visits
• Library and resource centre set-up
• Estonia - Estonian Bankers Association - EC Phare - Two week training program
• Organisation of specialised seminars
• Coordination of bank visits

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).
• France - Centre de formation de la profession bancaire (CFPB) - Distance Learning Language Course (Banking German)

Gabon

Training to the staff of the “Post of Gabon”

• Marketing
• Risk Management
• Branch Performance Management (BranchSim)

Georgia

Centre for Enterprise Restructuring and management Assistance - World Bank - Centre for enterprise restructuring and management assistance

Rehabilitation of enterprises in the private sector by training 36 national consultants and employing them in different projects which aimed to restructure a number of selected companies in different industrial sectors.

Training regarding Credit Management for Georgian bankers

Greece

Athens Institute of Finance - Training Project

BBA provided integrated knowledge and skills, as well as practical training to prepare students for employment in the banking and financial services industry. BBA increased the skills of junior professionals within the financial services industry of the EU member countries, as well as Central and Eastern Europe

Masters Degree in European Banking

Hungary

International Training Centre for Bankers - Flemish Government - Development of a customised Computer-based Training Course on the principles of a Free Market Economy

Train-The-Trainers courses on computer-based training (CBT) programming + application in the development of a translated and customised CBT course on Economics

EC-Phare-program: Setting up a computer-based training library service

International Training Centre for Bankers - Swiss Government - Computer-based knowledge profile evaluation system

Delivery of a dedicated software + training of the trainers to implement the principles of knowledge based profiling and evaluation

International Training Center for Bankers - EC Phare - Development and implementation of a Distance Learning Banking Curriculum

International Training Centre for Bankers - EC Phare - Technical Assistance to the ITCB

• Revision of the current training courses
• Upgrading of the current Distance Learning and short term courses
• Development of new Distance Learning and short term courses
• Study visits
• Consulting on institutional development

Indonesia

Indonesian Banking Development Institute (LPPI) - Training Programme : Leadership in Banking (in Brussels)

Italy

French and Italian speaking banking communities - EC FORCE - Distance Learning package on EC funding principles and procedures

Development of a Distance Learning package, including a computer-based test, validated by some 10 banks in Italy and Belgium

Ivory Coast

Finances sans Frontières - Le métier de trésorier de la banque

Organisation of seminars for top bankers on the general organisation of a bank, the financial markets and policy and procedures of treasury of financial institutions

Jordan

Arab Academy for Banking & Financial Sciences - Human Resources and Change Management

• Train-The-Trainers course on Bank Training Management and curriculum development
• Change Management

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

Bank of Laos (BOL/ State owned Commercial Banks - Euro-TAL - Bank Training Project in Laos

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

• BBA provided in the long-term training needs of the banking community through the set-up of a Distance Learning curriculum and self-study training centre
• BBA provided the ALCB with trained trainers ensuring the long-term self-sustainability

Lebanon

Association of Banks in Lebanon (ABL).- Training courses

• Human Resources
• Budgeting in Banks

Lithuania

Lithuanian Banking, Insurance and Finance Institute - EC Phare - Development and implementation of a Distance Learning Banking Curriculum

• Development of course text books in Distance Learning format (including workbooks, exam preparation book, support session manual)
• Training of local trainers in guiding support sessions for Distance Learning participants
• Setting up administration, examination and certification systems
• Study visits
• Library and resource centre set-up

Luxembourg

Institut de Formation Bancaire Luxembourg - Belgian Government - Computer-based knowledge profile evaluation system Delivery of a dedicated software and Train-The-Trainers sessions to implement the principles of knowledge based profiling and evaluation

Institut de Formation Bancaire Luxembourg (IFBL): Distance Learning language courses (Banking English, Banking German, Banking French, Banking Dutch)

Belgian Government: Implementation of a knowledge profile evaluation system

IFBL: Advanced Assets & Liabilities seminars, IAS seminars

Morocco

Caisse Nationale du Crédit Agricole - Belgian Government

Computer-based knowledge profile evaluation system

Delivery of a dedicated software and a Train-The-Trainers sessions to implement the principles of knowledge based profiling and evaluation

Caisse Nationale de Crédit Agricole - Belgian Government - Training Project: setting up of an Open Learning Centre

Belgian Government: Bank simulation program ‘Fundamentals of Bank Financial Management’

Belgian Government: Branch Marketing, Commercial Organisation & Negotiations

Belgian Government: Human Resources Management

The Netherlands

ING Group - Short Term Executive Seminars

The Netherlands - ABN AMRO Bank - Short Term (Executive) Seminars

• Credit Risk management (CredSim)
• Branch Performance Management (BranchSim)
• Commercial Banking Program (ComSim)
• Financial Risk Program

The Netherlands - NIBE: Distance Learning language courses (Banking English and Banking German)

The Netherlands - DHB Bank - Bilateral agreement - Short term training courses

BBA experts will conduct on a case by case basis bank technical courses for internal staff.

Poland

International School of Banking and Finance - Flemish Government - Development of a customised Computer-based Training Course on the principles of a Free Market Economy

Train-The-Trainers courses on computer-based training (CBT) programming + application in the development of a translated and customised CBT course on Economics

Polish Bank Association - EC Phare - Short Term Seminars

National Bank of EC Phare - Setting up of specialised seminars

National Bank of EC Phare - Seminars and study visit

EC-Phare-program: Seminars and consultations for the National Bank of Poland

Romania

Romanian Banking Institute - EC Phare - Strengthening of the Institutional Capacity regarding the internal Audit and Financial Control in Training for Public Internal Auditors in Romania

Romanian Banking Institute - EC Phare - Operational Audit and Restructuring Implementation of Romanian Savings Bank

National Bank of EC Phare - Bank Bookkeeping (‘Train-The-Trainers’)

• Accounting Plan
• International Standards

• Bank Financial Management
• Bank Audit
• Portfolio Management

EC program: Operational Audit and Restructuring Implementation of Romanian Savings Bank

International Banking Institute - Flemish Government - Development of a customised Computer-based Training

Train-The-Trainers courses on computer-based training (CBT) programming + application in the development of a translated and customised CBT course on Economics

Russia

International Finance and Banking School - EC Tacis - Organisation of tailor-made seminars

Interbank Clearing and Settlement Systems

International Finance and Banking School - EBRD - Advanced Bank Techniques

Setting up of a two-week training program

Banks’ Association of Short Term Seminars - Correspondent Banking

Conference “The Challenges of the Basel II Accord for Europe and its Neighbours” or “How to cope with the ineluctable deadline”

EC program: Russian Regional Bank Institution Building Program – Chelindbank

Rwanda

School of Finance and Banking (SFB) - BBA in collaboration with Ethias Bank - Short Term training courses

6 short term courses in French for the SFB.

School of Finance and Banking - Bilateral agreement with MsM - MBA Degree in Banking & Finance

BBA experts conducted bank technical courses

Senegal

Union des Mutuelles du Partenariat pour la Mobilisation de l’Epargne et le Crédit au Sénégal - Formation à l’activité crédits pour UM-PAMECAS

Slovakia

Ministry of Finance - EC Phare - Revision of the Collective Investment Law

Specialised seminars on the introduction of a new legislation on capital markets

South Africa

ABSA Bank - Computer-based knowledge profile evaluation system

Delivery of a dedicated software and Train-The-Trainers sessions to implement the principles of knowledge based profiling and evaluation

IFBA (International Finance and Banking Academy)

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

Syria

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

Training on IFRS

Turkey

Banks Association of Turkey - Human Resources and Change Management

• Train-The-Trainers course on Bank Training Management and curriculum development
• Change Management

Banks Association of Turkey - Short Term Seminars

• Fundamentals of Bank Financial Management (BankSim)
• Credit Risk Management (CredSim)
• Turkmenistan - Central Bank of Turkmenistan - EC Tacis - Support to the Interbank Training Centre in Ashkhabad (Long Term Training project)
• Russian speaking Long Term Training Advisors
• Bank Training Needs Analysis
• Short terms seminars upgrading & Train-The-Trainers
• Implementation of a sustainable approach
• Study visits
• Post-graduate degree course in Banking and Finance

Turkmenistan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belgium - Technical Training in the Turkmen financial Sector

Trainings given at the Specialised Banking School of the Central Bank of Turkmenistan:

• Global finance, International transactions
• Banking crediting: the credit appraisal, crediting for small and medium business (enterprises), mortgage crediting
• Internal control and auditing
• System of payments and non cash settlements
• Bank Financial Management (BankSim)
• The basis of import-export control and foreign exchange control in the developed countries
• Prudential regulation and supervision of the banking sector
• Management information systems in banking and financial institutions
• Financial programming and development of macroeconomic models

Lectures:

• Central banking: mandates of financial stability and of monetary policy
• Central banking: mandate of monetary policy

Uganda

• Uganda - The Netherlands Financial Sector Development Exchange (NFX) - Implementation of a simulation program
• Branch Performance Management (BranchSim)
• ALM

Vietnam

VietcomBank - World Bank - The Bank For Foreign Trade Of Vietnam (Vietcombank) Technical Twinning Project

As established in Vietcombank’s Restructuring Plan, agreed with the World Bank as part of the Poverty Reduction Support Credit (PRSC), it was indispensable to out-line comprehensive restructuring measures in order to improve the Bank’s business operations and competitiveness. Under this general vision, Vietcombank’s objectives were to maintain its role as the leading commercial bank in Vietnam and become an international universal bank in the region within the next decade by: (i) building up a modern organization under international standards; (ii) diversifying products and activities; and, (iii) taking the lead in applying advanced banking technology to provide high quality financial services to every economic sectors in Vietnam.

Vietnam - Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam - World Bank - Supporting the implementation of the Restructuring plan of the BIDV

BBA assisted in providing consulting services to the State Bank of Vietnam for supporting the implementation of the restructuring plan of the BIDV of Vietnam including: operational restructuring, Development of internal control systems and corporate governance structures, improvement of management information systems, development and implementation of policies, procedures and manual for core banking functions such as credit analysis, portfolio review, market risk management, asset and liability management and Human Resources capacity building and training for managers on best international commercial banking practices

Vietnam - seminar “Financial Institution Analysis”

Yemen

Institute for Banking Studies – Sana’a - 1998-2000 - EC Meda - Technical Assistance to the development of Bank Sector Training in Yemen (Long Term Training Project)

• Long Term Advisor
• Institute & Bank Sector Training Needs Analysis
• Short term seminars & Train-The-Trainers transfer
• Financial & expertise self-sustainability