Faculties and Supporting Services

The College operates with five faculties and a Business Development And Consultancy Centre:

o Credit Management Faculty
o Treasury Management Faculty
o Information Technology Faculty
o Banking Operations Faculty
o Human Resource and Marketing Faculty
o Business Development & Consultancy Centre

The five faculties undertake training and also participate in the consultancy and research programmes of the Consultancy Centre.

In addition to coordinating research and consultancy assignments of the College, the Consultancy Centre has responsibility for new business development, relationship management and interventions in Micro-finance And Micro, Small And Medium Scale Enterprise (MSME) Development. Various studies in Ghana indicate that MSMEs represent approximately 90% of the businesses registered in the country. Their growing importance is seen in the growing number of banks creating dedicated units for MSMEs to support the work of the micro-finance institutions who are under-resourced and require significant capacity building in funding and human capital development.

The objective here therefore is to improve the capacity of financial sector institutions to appreciate the peculiar funding needs of the MSME sector through carefully packaged training programmes. Entrepreneurship and enterprise to develop programmes will also be developed to better equip MSME managers to operate efficiently and profitably through improved systems to ensure lower default rates regarding credit advanced to the sector.

The auxiliary services of the College provide administrative and logistical support to the faculties. They comprise Library Services, Accounts, Transport and General Services.

Training & Development

The training offered covers a broad scope including the major areas of banking and finance practice and related areas as indicated below:

[i]	Core Areas Of Banking:	Banking Operations, Credit Management, Treasury Management, Foreign Operations, Marketing
[ii]	Technology:	Information & Communications Technology
[iii]	Human Resource:	Management & Leadership Development
[iv]	Enterprise Development:	Entrepreneurship & Micro-finance

The training can be customized to meet the specific needs of a particular financial institution. In such situations, the College makes use of the client’s internal manuals and policy documents to ensure trainees acquire immediately useable knowledge and skills which are in sync with internal practices and culture. There are also scheduled courses run on the College’s academically conducive premises located at the Airport Residential Area of Accra where employees from Ghana and elsewhere in the sub region can interact with colleagues from other institutions and cultures to enrich their own experience.

The primary objective of all the training programmes is to achieve knowledge-based practical results. To achieve this, various instructional methods are used including lectures, case studies, role-playing, participant-led discussions, audio-visual presentations and seminars, site visits to relevant institutions, among others. Adjunct professional staff supports resident faculty who have reputable credentials in industry and academia.

Research

The National Banking College has a keen interest in promoting applied research in areas of applied economics, banking & finance and related area as well as enterprise development. Advances in these fields are of relevance to the needs of the financial sector in Ghana and the sub-region as a whole. With growing competition, the financial services sector is faced with strategic choices with implications for the long-term viability of the respective institutions. Research activities will continue to be focused on developing a body of knowledge that will be of timely assistance to the successful evaluation of options for growth and development of industry participants.
Publications of research outcomes and articles will aim to contribute to the advancement of knowledge directly related to the theory and practice of banking and finance particularly in an emerging economy. The primary goal is to disseminate the results of scholarly activity to a broad audience consisting of academic faculty and bank administrators, business executives, consultants, development specialists and governmental managers. The publications will continue to be a means to disseminate the latest information and findings of both the academic and business communities, and to act as a bridge between them.

Business Development & Consultancy Centre

The Consultancy Centre of the College seeks to design and implement professional solutions to business and policy challenges. It offers business solutions to entrepreneurial and corporate renewal challenges including the development of business, marketing and strategic plans, development of operating manuals for accounting, credit management, banking and treasury operations. It is positioned to provide critical sector analysis for various objectives as well as assess the impact of policy initiatives. Human resource planning and development advisory services are available in addition to executive placement services. Strategies and business solutions using modern technological options and MIS design and reviews are all increasingly pertinent areas in which the Centre offers timely and tailor-made solutions.

The Centre is also at the forefront of promoting best practices in all financial sector institutions. It has a special interest in developing capacity for Microfinance and Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprise (MSME) development. It has set an SME Development Centre to provide support to the sector.