Forgery in documents which are used for any banking transactions may lead to greater economic loss. Hence personnel involved in such activities need to know the ways of forgery in documents like check, ID and different aspects of signature, fingerprint etc. Recent events show the vulnerabilities of bank employee in detecting such forgeries, especially detecting forged signature, ID and checks. Hence getting such knowledge regarding such aspects makes banking employee and bank more secure.
Completed Programmes
NBI announces the 19th Batch of the Management Development Program (MDP) in association with Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. NBI has successfully conducted batches of MDP since we rolled out the program in January 2017 with several banking professionals who have graduated the MDP course.
National Banking Institute (NBI) in association with Manipal Global education Services (MaGE) is pleased to present a program on "Advanced Credit Program". The program is being facilitated by a pool of experts - experienced professors from Manipal Global Academy of BFSI. The course has been designed, in consultation with the local experts. This is a blended program with e-learning, virtual classroom sessions, workbook, and assessment.
On completion of this course the participants will be able to :
- Explain Regulatory & Statutory aspects in lending
This core level program provides the participants with a good foundational understanding of international trade, how corporates settle their cross border commercial activities, their basic requirements, and how to identify rand mitigate risks. The program covers traditional methods of settlement used in trade transactions such as documentary credits and collections, along with contemporary and emerging trends in trade finance in the areas of digitization, supply chain finance, open account trade transactions and structured trade finance solutions.
Disruption often offers leaders a chance to lead change in their organizations for a long term benefit. If leaders are equipped with the right resources to reinforce change, leaders will be better prepared to co create a change-ready environment in their organizations.
National Banking Institute (NBI) is pleased to present two day workshop on Effective Leadership through Gender Equality– Changing Cultural Norms. The program has been designed to equip banking executives with leadership and problem solving skills by taking into account the changing cultural norms and importance of gender equality in the contemporary world. The program shall contribute to empowering across all gender to take lead in creating more equitable professional environment for growth and economic development of institutions and society at large.
NBI is pleased to announce the course on ‘Comprehensive Commercial Lending’, been designed to make the Relationship Managers, Senior Relationship Managers, Branch Managers, Risk Officers/Managers and any other interested employees learn the skills of making good commercial loans. Starting from understanding the cause of borrowing, the course focuses on identifying and weighing the financial and non-financial strengths and weaknesses of a business and the overall risk faced by the bank if the loan is made.
For financial institutions, better handling of different types of documents is essential. Technique to communicate with customer legally with good faith is always required in any institutions. Likewise signature verification is basic need for bankers whereas losses due to forged signature is in increasing order. Similarly, trade of counterfeit currency is big threat for our economy. Forensic laboratory is continually receiving such forged documents, cheques as well as currencies. The awareness towards it is essential for bankers.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN) has announced the implementation of NFRS in Commercial Banks from fiscal year 2015/16. However, Nepal Rastra Bank has issued its directive to commercial banks to prepare their financial statements of 2017/18 based on NFRS. NFRS is principle based a high quality standard which is divergent to local GAAP. Adoption of NFRS impacted greater areas including financial reporting as well as loan loss provisioning requirements.
Lending or advancing credit facilities is one of the core functions of banks and financial institutions. All employees engaged in credit related jobs should possess basic knowledge about the function before or at the time of assuming such role.
It is imperative for the banks to have a robust risk framework to manage all the risk associated with it and the management of credit risk begins at the origination itself. Managing the credit risk exposure within the framework of risk management (identification, measurement, monitoring and control) is of utmost importance for minimizing the losses arising out of the risks associated with credit.
Considering this, the course has been designed to provide the participants an understanding of Credit Risk Management at the Branch level.
Operational Risk has been increasing day by day in the Nepalese Financial Sector and large risks events are taking place one after another, and it is always difficult to assess when, how and at what intensity the operational risk events occur. But the losses stemming from operational risks may erode the capital of a BFI with such a magnitude and intensity that the BFI may be left with no room for escaping from the impact, which could precipitate up to a situation of collapse.
With a view of integrating sustainability into credit risk management in the financial sector, Nepal Rastra Bank released the Guidelines on Environmental & Social Risk Management (ESRM) for Banks and Financial Institutions in 2018. The objective is to establish the ESRM Framework as the standard process for proactive evaluation and integration of environmental and social issues into the credit risk assessment process of B/FIs.
Taxation, as a crucial activity, is mainly concerned with identification of tax payers, compliance with laws, collection of evidences, verifying the income, authenticating the tax accounting process, and so on. Sound knowledge and skills in taxation system is possible when the staff are acquainted with various aspects of taxation, such as taxation acts, rules, regulations and norms and their application by various incumbents.
NBI is pleased to announce the program on 'Overview of AML/CFT' facilitated by some of the leading professionals and experts of the industry.
As the size and complexity of financial institutions have increased, so have the challenges of understanding and reducing risks down to truly manageable levels by implementing internal controls. An effective Internal Audit function is the vital component that independently and objectively evaluates the risk management and assesses the adequacy, appropriateness and effectiveness of controls and compliance with the Bank’s systems and procedures.
For financial institutions, better handling of different types of documents is essential. Technique to communicate with customer legally with good faith is always required in any institutions. Likewise signature verification is basic need for bankers whereas losses due to forged signature is in increasing order. Similarly, trade of counterfeit currency is big threat for our economy. Forensic laboratory is continually receiving such forged documents, cheques as well as currencies. The awareness towards it is essential for bankers.
National Banking Institute is pleased to announce a 'Workshop on Performance Needs Assessment' that aims to provide participants with a systematic approach for conducting your own assessment of individual and organizational performance to drive and sustain competitive advantage.
Furthermore, the workshop also helps you gain access to tools and methods you can use immediately to assess business and performance needs.
Nepal Rastra Bank has recently presented a draft guideline on working capital loans for the BFIs, aiming to streamline the management of working capital loans in a prudent manner. In this regard, NRB has floated the draft for suggestions from stakeholders with an expectation of tracking the use of working capital loans being issued by the banks.