The Business of Banking in Asia

The Business Banking in Asia is a half-day workshop that helps new and existing staff within the banking and fi nance sector to understand how banks operate and the major factors that drive their loan and deposit activities, costs, product pricing and returns to shareholders.

Within this context, the workshop will address the importance of funding and capital to a bank’s operations and how  regulatory change and volatility in global markets is serving to reshape the
environment for banking in Asia.

Who Should Be Trained?

• Organisations providing services to the banking and fi nance sector, eg Legal, IT, Telco, Recruitment, Advertising, Accounting
  
• Graduates embarking on their finance careers
  
• Financial services customer support and frontline staff
  
• Internal shared services staff, such as HR, Marketing, Accounts, Learning and Development

Results You Can Expect

The Business of Banking in Asia helps you and your staff to:

• Put your role and the role of your organisation in the context of the broader banking and financial services sector
• Appreciate the factors that drive the lending and deposit taking decisions of banks and understand how changes in key variables such as capital and funding costs impact on bank
  Profitability
  
• Develop your knowledge of the language used across the banking and financial services sector and gain a familiarity with the tools and terms most widely used to measure financial
  Performance
  
• Gain an appreciation as to the risks that banks face in carrying out their activities and the practical measures they take to identify, measure and manage these risks
• Wealth Management – What is the importance of wealth management to Asia’s banks? What forces are driving  competition and consolidation across the sector? Will wealth management
  be the saviour for banks in the event that credit growth deteriorates in line with a slowing global and domestic economy?
  
• The importance of risk management – How do banks measure and manage the sizeable risks that arise from their activities? How do changes in risk appetite amongst banks flow through
  to the products that they offer to their customers?

What Is Included?

• Structure of the Asian financial services industry
• Size and structure of banking and financial services sector – A review of the major entities operating in the market, their range of product offerings and customer base
• The regulatory environment – agencies that supervise financial services activity and their key responsibilities
• A focus on the financials that drive bank returns - A review of key measures such as net interest income, asset quality, capital and funding ratios etc. and their importance to analysts and investors
• Cash flow analysis
• The advent of Basel III and its significance to banks both in Asia and offshore. How is Basel III and other regulatory reforms changing the way in which banks operate?
• Put into context the role that the wealth management sector is playing in the future of banking within Asia and identify the key factors responsible for the unprecedented consolidation and change currently taking place within the sector
  

Delivery Options

Omega Performance offers the Business of Banking in Asia program as a half-day workshop for professionals in the Banking and Finance Industry.

Learning Method: