Dear Member,
Season’s greetings and a Happy New Year to you all.
Let us hope and pray that the New Year 2017 ushers in lots of happiness and joy
to all.
As the year 2016 draws to an end, I take this opportunity to share with you, through
this column, updates, events, developments that have taken place in your Institute
during the last quarter.
Sir Purushottamdas Thakurdas Memorial Lecture
Your Institute organized the 33rd Sir Purushottamdas Thakurdas Memorial Lecture
– 2016 on 24th November 2016 at Mumbai. The lecture on a very contemporary
topic "Pioneering Best Practices in Banking: India’s Record” was delivered
by Mr. R. Gandhi, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India. The lecture was attended
by a large number of officials from the banking industry. The speech has been uploaded
on our website. The link to the same is given below for your convenience.
http://iibf.org.in/documents/PTML%20Lecture%20-2016.pdf
Meeting with the heads of HR/Training Verticals
Your Institute organised a meeting of HR and Training Heads of Banks/Financial Institutions
jointly with NIBM and IDRBT at Mumbai. The meeting was held on 9th December 2016,
at the Leadership Centre of the Institute at Mumbai. Senior functionaries from various
public sector, private sector and financial institutions attended the meeting. Very
useful deliberations took place in the meeting and we have carefully noted down
all the suggestions for further review and implementation; wherever feasible.
Capacity Building
RBI vide its notification dated 11 th August 2016 has mandated that each bank should
have board approval policy to deploy staff with adequate qualification/certification
in key areas of operation. To begin with, they have identified following areas:
1. Treasury Management: Dealers, mid-office operations.
2. Risk Management: credit risk, market risk, operational risk, enterprise-wide
risk, information security, liquidity risk.
3. Accounting – Preparation of financial results, audit function
4. Credit Management: credit appraisal, rating, monitoring, credit administration
I have pleasure in informing you that your Institute is already in this space and
is offering courses namely, Treasury Management, Risk Management and Credit Management
for developing professionals in the important areas of banking. I sincerely urge
upon all the eligible staff to enrol for these certifications so as to enable you
to understand the finer aspects of the subjects and also perform better in your
workplace.
Collaboration
Your Institute has signed a MoU with Afghanistan Institute of Banking & Finance
for carrying out training programs for their bankers at various managerial levels.
Training
The training department of the Institute conducts various training programmes catering
to the training requirements of banks and Financial Institutions. During the last
quarter, programs for Bank Executives, Certified Credit officer, Certified Banking
Compliance professional, Certified Bank Trainer and a program on Digital Banking
were conducted.
Research activities
Your Institute has been encouraging research activities through its three major
initiatives viz. Macro Research, Micro Research and Diamond Jubilee and CH Bhabha
Banking Overseas Research Fellowship (DJCHBBORF). The advertisement, requesting
submission of proposals on the topics under Macro and Micro Research, has been placed
on our website, Facebook page and Economic & Political weekly website (www.epw.in).
The last date for submission of Micro/Macro proposals is 31 st January 2017 and
that for DJCHBBORF is 28 2 th February 2017. I would urge upon the members to participate
in the research activities of the Institute.
Advanced Management Programme – Management Development Programme by IIM
(Calcutta)
The Institute conducts an "Advanced Management Programme" (AMP) in Banking &
Finance for working executives from the Banking / Financial sector. This is an eight
month long week-end programme. This year, as part of AMP, a 5 day (30 hours) "Management
Development Programme" (MDP) in General Management was conducted by Indian Institute
of Management, Calcutta at their campus.
Certificate Course in Project Finance
Your Institute conducted its 25 th batch of Certificate course in Project Finance
from 21
November to 26 th November 2016. The programme is targeted to Banking & Finance
professionals, officials working in banks/financial institutions/NBFCs who are involved
in st appraising large & medium projects, both industrial and infrastructural.
The objectives of the course were to:
● Equip bankers with advanced skills in the field of project
appraisal, financing, etc. and familiarise them with basic issues arising in financing
projects, as well as risk analysis and risk mitigation methodologies with a specific
emphasis on structured financing.
Examinations
Apart from the flagship courses, the Institute has been offering a bouquet of Diploma,
Certificate and Blended courses. These courses have been designed after considering
their contemporariness, eliciting feedback from stakeholders and after obtaining
suitable approvals. While the enrolments for the flagship courses are quite significant,
the number of candidates enrolling for the other courses is relatively low. I would
therefore urge all the eligible members to enrol for these examinations as part
of their continuous professional development. In fact, the courses on AML/KYC, Customer
Service are very relevant to all the front level staff of the banks. To help our
members, the Institute has increased the frequency of above two examinations to
quarterly intervals from April 2016 onwards.
Postponement of Nov/Dec16 examinations
Your Institute had taken a proactive decision to postpone the JAIIB/ CAIIB exams
which were to be held in November / December 2016 in view of the demonetization
measures announcement by the Government of India and increased work pressure in
Banks. The revised dates have been announced. Candidates are requested to take note
of the same. However the Diploma and Certificate examinations scheduled from January
2017 onwards will be held as per schedule.
Syllabus Revision Committee
The Institute had appointed a Syllabus Revision Committee headed by a former CMD
of a public sector bank to suggest changes in the syllabi of all the Diploma and
Certificate courses offered by the Institute. The recommendations of the Committee
have been accepted by the Institute and consequently, the coursewares for the courses
have been updated and the updated books will be available in the market latest by
mid-January 2017. The new syllabi for the Diploma and Certificate courses will be
made applicable from the May - July 2017 examinations.
Video- Guidelines for examinations
The Institute has uploaded on its web site a video giving step by step details relating
to examinations. The same can also be viewed on the Institute’s YouTube channel.
The official channel can be reached by clicking on the YouTube logo available on
the website. Members, who are appearing for the examinations conducted by the Institute,
are requested to see the video for a better appreciation of the steps required for
appearing for the examinations.
Mock Test
Mock tests provide a feel of the MCQ pattern of the examination. The Institute has
been administering mock test for all the 3 papers of JAIIB/ DB & F and 2 compulsory
papers for CAIIB. I urge upon the members to utilise this facility.
E-Learning
One of the pedagogical tools offered by the Institute is e-learning. The Institute
has taken up the assignment of updating the e-learning contents developed for its
Flagship courses namely JAIIB and CAIIB (compulsory subjects).
Mobile Apps
Your Institute’s mobile application is available on Google Play Store for
download. After downloading the application, the user needs to provide basic information
to get started (Member name, e-mail and mobile number). Using this application,
a candidate/member will be able get information about the Institute, Membership,
Examinations, Training and Books & Periodicals etc. You may download the Institute's
Mobile App and avail this service. As on December 2016, there are about 11,000 plus
downloads.
Social Media
I am happy to state here that the Institute has reached 34,000 plus likes on its
face book page and close to 350 subscribers for its YouTube channel as on December
2016. This shows the interest of the members on the Institute’s Face book
page. The types of post appearing on the page includes Notifications from the Institute,
RBI notifications, Banking Glossary, Opinion Polls related to Banking and Finance,
Quote of the Day, Season Greetings, Informing training programs and many more. The
videos of the various events of the Institute like seminars, R K Talwar Memorial
Lectures, PTM lectures, panel discussions and interviews of eminent bankers are
uploaded on the Institute’s YouTube channel. I would urge upon the members
to visit the page which will help them in increasing their knowledge and will give
them a better insight on Institute’s activities. This will also be a good
touch point for the members with the Institute.
New Certifications
The Institute has introduced a course on "Digital Banking" and another course for
the Subordinate staff of banks from January 2017. The first exams for these courses
will be held in Jan 2017.
Bank Quest
The Institute publishes a quarterly journal Bank Quest. The issue for October –
December 2016 is on "Digital Banking" The forthcoming issues will be based on the
following themes.
● January-March, 2017: Business Analytics
● April-June, 2017: Challenges in Infrastructure financing
I request members to contribute articles on above themes for publication in Bank
Quest. The Institute has enhanced the honorarium payable to the authors for contributing
articles in our journal.
IIBF Vision
As part of green initiative, the Institute has discontinued sending the hard copies
of the IIBF Vision with effect from October-2015 to its members. In case, you have
not registered your email id
with the Institute, I request you to do so to enable the Institute to send copies
of IIBF Vision by e-mail to you in future. You may also download issues of IIBF
Vision and Bank Quest from the Institute’s website.
Best wishes.
Dr. J. N. Misra
29 th December 2016
