Business Continuity & Scenario Planning for Banks & Financial Institutions Training Course
This training course teaches you practical methods to deal with business continuity and scenario planning in the banking/ financial institution environment.
Business Continuity & Scenario Planning for Banks Course overview
This is an intensive course on Business Continuity and Scenario Planning focused on the banking/ financial institution environment.Business Continuity Planning is the process through which an organisation ensures the maintenance or recovery of operations, including services to customers, when faced with disruptive events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error or terrorism.
The course includes 6 detailed case studies and a heavily interactive section on developing effective scenarios.
This course complies with international best practice in the field of Business Continuity Planning and takes cognizance of changes taking place around the globe such as the emerging British Code of practice and Specification for business continuity management (BS 25999).
Who should attend?
This course intended for Executive Management, Senior Personnel and Operational Staff whom are responsible to ensure that business continues in their respective business unit/division/branch/industry infrastructure in the event of any emergency, unexpected or extensive disruptive circumstances.What do you get from Ethan Hathaway courses?
- Practical. Learn from experienced and active industry practitioners and what's being practiced by your peers.
- Applicable. Apply what you learn in your job and your career
- Specially designed courses by industry active experts for industry practitioners
- Valuable. Earn more revenue or save your organisation from monetary loss. You and your organisation will quickly earn back your investment on the course fee and more
- Enjoyable. Speakers who have a passion for their topic
- Clear. Turning complex concepts into easy to understand concepts
You gain knowledge and skills that make you valuable to your company and your career
Instruction by industry experts
Course notes and reference materials package
Daily lunch, snacks and refreshments
Certificate of completion
Meeting your industry peers
Ask questions relevant to your job
Limited seats - each session is limited to between 18-25 seats - Much, much more
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Your course instructor
Richard Barr: Richard holds a B.S. in International Business Administration from San Jose State University in California. His professional experience spans 19 years, 5 of which were spent with Wells Fargo Bank. Another 5 were spent honing his global banking skills, when Richard was intimately involved with International Trade Finance, Real Time Gross Settlement and Cross Border Banking. The past 9 years have been in the private and high-tech sectors providing high-level consulting services, business analysis, project management and training to a wide range of banking clientele across the globe. He has spent extensive time servicing a diversity of "financial institutional" clients, in South Africa, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Greece, Bermuda, Malawi, United Kingdom and across North America. Clients that Richard and Citadel Advantage have dealt with such notable firms as AIB Bank, Eurobank, ABSA Bank, CitiBank, Swedbank, INDEbank, IBM, Montran and Fundtech, as well as many others. Richard has also filled the role of advisor to central banks on payment systems and technical payments issues. Furthermore, key staff from the Bank of England, South African Reserve Bank, Central Bank of Ireland and Bank of Portugal who have attended training sessions presented by Richard.
Dates & Locations & Fees
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* Venue, dates, course fees, promotions, course content, course instructor are all subject to change
Can't find a session in a city near you?
If there's no session scheduled in a city near you, you have the following options:
- In-house training: If you have a group of 8 or more, consider having us run this course in-house for you
- Co-sponsored training: Between 5-7 people, consider a co-sponsored course - you agree to send this set number of people to the course if we run it in a city near you and Ethan Hathaway sells the remaining seats to other companies
- Distance learning: Less than 5 people, consider distance training format: live trainer presents over phone lines/web at pre-scheduled times (available only for select courses)
- Just tell us where you want the course: Let us know which city you'd like us to run this course in - we'll plan it if there's enough demand
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You may book your place on the course by any of these methods:
- Online booking - simply click on the "Register Me" button next to the course date you wish to register and it will take you through our quick online registration procedure.
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- please include your full contact details. - Fax us the booking form (included in the brochure) to: +852 3014-0721
- Or call: +852 2273-4393 during normal office hours
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