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2023 Winners - KCBL

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Course Summary

The Bank Management Simulation Program provides participants with a broad perspective on the business of banking. By taking on the role of the management team of a virtual bank for the duration of four financial quarters, participants of the Battle of the Banks (BOTB) become familiar with the products and the activities of a full-service bank.

Whilst interacting with the banking simulation that is close to reality, participants get to experience the impact that the economy, regulations as well as the competition have on the financial performance of a bank. Decisions are also made on the mitigation of some key risks facing banks today. The simulation program provides a powerful and engaging learning experience set in the context of the current banking environment. Participants develop skills and insights focusing on what it takes to manage a full-service bank successfully in today's competitive and volatile marketplace.
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Who should participate in Battle of the Bank$?

The simulation program provides a powerful and engaging learning experience set in the context of the current banking environment. Participants develop skills and insights focusing on what it takes to manage a full-service bank successfully in today's competitive and volatile marketplace.

The program is ideally suited to the training of the following persons:

  • Junior to mid-level management

  • Young bank executives who need to expand their overall understanding of the management of a bank.

  • Personnel from Finance, Risk Management, Internal Audit and Compliance who need to expand their understanding of the key activities and products in a bank

  • Non-banking professionals active in the financial services sector who need to be familiar with the complexities of management in financial institutions.

Course curriculum

    1. How to navigate through this course

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Tanzanian Bankers Challenge 2022 - Press release

    3. About theTanzanian Bankers Challenge

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. What to expect...Battle information booklet

    5. Key Learning Objectives

      FREE PREVIEW

    6. About The Incentive Scheme Program (ISP) - *NEW FEATURE*

      FREE PREVIEW

    7. ProBanker Introduction

    1. Meet your instructors | Live webinar invitation | 23 April 2025 | 10h00 - 12h00 SAT

    2. An Introduction to Financial Intermediation and banking

    3. Financial Intermediation - why do they exist?

    4. Financial Institutions | Commercial Banks | Investment Banks |Bank market structure | Comparison to non-financial firms

    5. Bank Assets | Breakdown of banks assets | Personal loans | Commercial loans | Real estate loans | Loans by payment feature | Expected credit loss (ECL)

    6. Bank Asset examples | interest & Amortization features

    7. Other Earning Assets | Interbank Lending | Securities

    8. Bank Liabilities | Core deposits

    9. Bank Liabilities cont... | Wholesale deposits | Corporate Bonds | Shareholder equity

    10. Conceptual Theory | Quiz | Financial Intermediation and Commercial Banks

    11. Introduction to ProBanker | Managing a bank - the basics | Some complications | Modes of operation (Autosim & Competitive) | Bank assets in ProBanker | Bank liabilities in Probanker

    12. Using Probanker | Organisation of the ProBanker Simulation

    13. ProBanker | Assignment 1 | Financial Intermediation | Primer

    14. ProBanker Assignment 1 | Quiz

    15. ProBanker | Assignment 2 | Funding Analysis | Primer

    16. ProBanker | Assignment 2 | Quiz

    1. Live webinar invitation 2 | 30 April 2025

    2. Economic Report _Quarter 1_Trial

    3. ProBanker | Assignment 3 | Interest Rate Risk | Primer

    4. ProBanker | Assignment 3 | Quiz

    1. Live webinar invitation 3 | 07 May 2025 | 10h00 - 13h00 CAT

    2. Incentive Scheme Program template for download

    3. Economic Report_Quarter 2_Trial

    4. ISP_Quarter 2_Trial

    5. ProBanker | Assignment 4 | Basel Ratios Primer | Part 1

    6. Copy of ProBanker | Assignment 4 | Quiz

    1. Live webinar invitation 4 | 14 May 2025 |10h00 - 13h00 CAT

    2. Q1_Incentive Scheme Program_Template

    3. Q2_Incentive Scheme Program_Template

    4. Periodic Stress Test Criteria_Q2

    5. ProBanker | Assignment 5 | Liquidity Risk Primer

    6. ProBanker | Assignment 5 | Liquidity Risk | Quiz

    7. ProBanker | Assignment 6 | Credit Risk Primer | Part 1

    8. ProBanker | Assignment 6 | Credit Risk Primer | Part 2

    9. ProBanker | Assignment 6 | Credit Risk | Quiz

    10. ProBanker | Assignment 7 | Repurchase Agreements | Primer

    11. ProBanker | Assignment 7 | Repurchase Agreements | Calculations

    12. ProBanker | Assignment 7 | Repurchase Agreements | Quiz

    1. Live webinar invitation 5 | Review and Insights of Q1 & Q2 | 21 May 2025 | 09h00 - 12h00 CAT

    2. Q3_Incentive Scheme Program

    3. Q4_Incentive Scheme Program_Template

About this course

  • $2,996.00
  • 55 lessons
  • 7.5 hours of video content
  • 7 Simulator exercises

Key Learning Objectives

After having completed the Battle of the Banks gamified program, you will:

  • Have an understanding of the impact of changing economic conditions.

  • Have an enhanced understanding of the different activities that are typically performed by a full-services bank.

  • Have an enhanced understanding of the key decisions taken by the management team (Exco) in a bank through inter alia the ALCO process.

  • Have an overview of how different areas of the business interact to produce overall business and financial performance.

  • Have an enhanced understanding of the key risks faced by banks today.

  • Be more familiar with the different types of financial statements that reflect profitability as well as the key performance measures used in banking

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • FIRST PRIZE

    *Automatic FREE team entry into the Semi-Finals of Battle of the Bank$ Africa 2025.
    *A floating trophy for the Institution being represented by the team.
    *Each member receives a coupon to the value of $2000 from ICAP Academy,valid for 12 months.

  • SECOND PRIZE

    Automatic FREE team entry into the Semi-Finals of Battle of the Banks Africa 2025
    *Silver medals (2rd place) and Certificates
    *Each member receives a coupon to the value of $1000 from ICAP Academy, valid for 12 months.

  • THIRD PRIZE

    *Automatic FREE team entry into the Semi-Finals of Battle of the Bank$ Africa 2025.
    *Bronze medal (3rd place) and Certificates
    *Each member receives a coupon to the value of $500 from ICAP Academy valid for 12 months.

  • OTHER PRIZES

    *Best Risk Managed Bank
    *Most Agressive bank
    *Most Cautious Bank
    *Best Bank Presentation
    * Most Enqusitive Minds

Bonus Material

Receive 3 FREE e-learning courses.
(Value $996) when you register!

  • An Introduction to Assets and Liabilities

    $399 value

    This course explores the issues and challenges of Asset and Liability Management for bank risk managers, auditors, and regulators. It emphasizes practical advantages and disadvantages of risk measurement and management tools and techniques, using samples of best practice risk reports.

  • An Introduction to Basel II and III

    $299 value

    This course provides a detailed overview of the history of the Basel Accords. It describes the regulatory tools that are available in Basel II and the risks that are covered and not covered, while also explaining the ICAAP and capital management.

  • Repo Primer - Understanding, managing and using Repos

    $299 value

    This course provides a practical step-by-step guide to understanding and operationalizing a Repo transaction.

Instructors

Meet your instructors

Andrew Kinsey

Course Director

Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in financial markets both for international and local (South African) institutions. He was a trader and senior manager in the derivatives and cash-trading environment, and worked as a Derivatives Trader at Nedcor, Standard Bank and Corpcapital Bank, trading foreign exchange, fixed income and equity assets. He was head of the ABN AMRO South Africa Money Market and Foreign Exchange unit. From 2008 to 2014 he was Head of Market and Trading Risk at the Purple Capital Group. This set the basis for the next period as he moved into risk management for hedge funds and in the online trading environment. This allowed him to build on his skills as a market trader to construct risk management systems, which illuminated granular market exposures as well as a communication tool for the business executives. At the same time he began to spend an increasing amount of time training and lecturing both graduates and experienced staff in market products and economics.

Social proof: testimonials

“You get a good understanding of banking business, knowing the impact of every decision as a manager or CEO of the bank towards the profitability of the bank and having to try out various changes of decisions and seeing its impact in bank performance.”

Mercy Mwasalanga, | NCBA Group (Tanzania) | Participant 2023

“Very useful and easy to follow”

Daria Olutu | KCBL (Tanzania) | Participant 2023

“The event provided me with useful insights and experience of how strategic decisions of how to operate a bank are made and their subsequent consequences.”

Nicholaus Kasungu | NBC (Tanzania) | Participant

“The ability to come up with our own/team decision and shape direction or results of your institution whilst being compliant of key metrics.”

Sylvester Malimu | Stanbic(Tanzania) | Participant 2023

“Ability to observe bank performance in different scenarios when different macro economic variables are applied was amazing! Highly recommend colleagues to take part in this event.”

John John | NCBA Group (Tanzania) | Participant 2023

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