Mission
The Mission of
the National Banking College is to become the leading resource centre for
banking and financial services in the West African sub-region through
demand-driven training, applied research and process consulting in the
chosen target market with a highly-trained and well-motivated team. To
achieve this mission, the College continues research into pertinent areas of
economics, banking and finance, management and enterprise development
leveraging the insights gained to deliver critical advisory solutions to its
target market institutions. The experience gained from these research and
consulting activities will continue to feed the development and delivery of
rich knowledge-based practical skills to power individual and corporate
performance in the financial services industry.
Vision and Direction
The National Banking College has adopted carefully considered strategies
to enhance its contribution to the overall development of the financial
services industry in the medium term. These strategies will be aimed at
enriching the core business of the College and availing its credible
resources to a broader clientele base with training and manpower
development, research and consultancy products and services.
The College does not at this time award its own degrees, diplomas and
certificates. It will seek to promote and deepen its network of
institutional linkages with domestic and international accredited
educational institutions to reward deserving participants with earned
certification. It is expected that the certification process will
improve participant interest and foster enduring benefits of training
programmes. Solid tuition and counseling can be arranged to support the
Chartered Institute Of Bankers in the various jurisdictions to realize
the common objective of developing competent and well-trained
professionals for the sector. In addition, the College will collaborate
with competent institutions to provide opportunities for international
exposure for trainees.
Currently, the College accepts participants to its training programmes
from savings and loans companies in addition to the rural banks and
other non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). A conscious strategy is
being deployed to provide training and consultancy interventions to
promote the small and medium scale (SME) sector. In the last few years
the SME sector has attracted deserved attention from various agencies to
jumpstart programmes aimed at realizing the goal of making the private
sector the engine of growth of the developing economy. These have
typically involved bilateral and multi-lateral agencies such as the
Trade and Investment Programme (TIP) funds in Ghana as well as the
Government of Ghana on its own as through its Export Development and
Investment Fund (EDIF) and Ghana Investment Fund (GIF) facilities. A
major limiting factor though has been the capacity of the implementing
agencies especially the banks and microfinance institutions to manage
these funds successfully. Thus the Banking College has deliberately
targeted this segment as a conscious extension of its mandate to meet
real needs in these changing times.
A more proactive research agenda is being pursued to provide useful
input into the decision-making processes of an increasingly competitive
market. Various banking and finance publications have been launched to
promote research findings as well as highlight issues of interest to the
financial sector. The College will also utilize its tremendous human
resource base to augment internal capacity of financial institutions
through the provision of consultancy services. Consultancy assignments
will also focus on training and manpower analysis as well as
macro-economic impact assessment and industry specific research covering
financial markets, bank profitability analysis and management issues.
The College will also seek to broaden its impact through the development
of new infrastructure including the introduction of new technology to
keep abreast with the new frontiers of service delivery in the industry.
In the nearer term, the College envisages expanding its activities to
other centres outside the metropolis of the Ghanaian capital to reach a
wider market.
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