The Mini MBA for Banking & Finance Professionals training course provides executive coaching at an advanced level covering practical and thorough understanding of recent developments in banking and finance - strategies, financial management, risk management, international financial markets, marketing strategies and performance evaluation - essential requirements for all those involved in financial sector activities.

This Oxford Management Centre training course will highlight:

• The latest developments in financial markets and instruments
• Strategic and management issues facing banks and how to capitalise upon them
• Risk management tools & techniques
• Basle, VAR and derivatives
• Skills development

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

• Understand the key issues and challenges facing in the banking & finance sector
• Develop and implement effective strategies
• Develop key Leadership & Management skills
• Manage and implement change
• Evaluate lending propositions and manage a loan portfolio effectively
• Measure and reduce risk

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Senior banking and finance executives
• Managers responsible for developing their organisations strategic vision and plans and implementing change
• Those involved with risk management
• Those who seek senior positions within the banking and finance sector
• Senior managers in businesses supplying banking and finance (e.g. IT, consultants, outsourcing companies) who wish to deepen sector knowledge and build sales and advisory capability to the sector

• An overview of international financial markets, regulation, instruments & risk
• Securitisation & derivatives
• Current trends, issues and developments in international financial markets
• Strategic management of banks
• Develop and integrate functional strategies e.g. marketing, technology, operations, organisation and people
• The skills of effective leader & manager
• Change and relationship management
• Financial performance evaluation – Profitability; liquidity and capital adequacy
• Identifying, evaluating & managing risk
• Risk measurement & stress testing