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Online Finance Courses for Banks
Our online financial training courses are written and designed in-house to be practical, concise and engaging. They are great as a stand-alone learning tool, as a pre-course requirement or to consolidate your previous learning.
We break down each course into bite-sized chunks so that you can do 5 or 10 minutes at a time on your smartphone, tablet or laptop anywhere you like so long as you have an internet connection and headphones.
Our personalised approach means that you can email or phone your tutor if you have questions.
Banks
Online Courses
Introduction to Companies, Funding & the Capital Markets – Essentials Online Course
2-3 Hours Introductory SkillsThis course covers the basics of financial markets and instruments; how the capital markets work and the role of key participants; how companies access the capital markets and what it means to be a listed company.
- Understand capital markets, how companies issue shares and bonds and how they are traded
- Appreciate the role of investment banks
- See the perspectives of key participants such as sell-side analysts, ratings agencies and investors
- Learn lots of financial jargon and concepts
Understand bank balance sheets, how they make profits, capital regulation and how to use typical ratios to evaluate performance with our Banking online course:
Finance Essentials for Banks – Online Course
2-4 Hours Introductory SkillsLearn about how banks make money, how they create value for their shareholders and the key concerns for bank management and regulators. You will see how the balance sheet and income statement work for a bank and you’ll understand key financial jargon and commonly used financial metrics such as ROE, cost:income ratio, leverage and net interest margin. We will also cover bank capital regulation, including risk-weighted assets, CET1 and leverage ratios and the rules for too-big-to-fail banks. And we consider current trends, the implications for profitability and the challenges facing banks.
- Understand how banks make money and the strategies they employ to drive value creation for their shareholders
- Appreciate how capital regulation works and understand the key ratios
- Learn how to evaluate a bank’s performance using commonly used key performance indicators
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Or get both courses with 10% discount for buying the bundle:
We offer certificates for all our courses, including the online courses that we include to enable you to consolidate your learning.
Most CPD is now self-certified (e.g. accountancy, law etc) so we don’t offer CPD “points” for particular organisations. However, our courses would certainly meet most organisations’ CPD requirements.