
Retail Banking Institute delivers professional certification courses for retail banking teams and individual learners, combining structured online learning with live expert-led tutorials and practical insight from experienced banking professionals.
Certification programmes
Short courses
Online or in-house delivery
Structured learning materials
Weekly live expert-led tutorials
Practical retail banking focus
Options for individuals, teams, and institutions
Build strong customer relationships, improve service effectiveness, and deliver operational excellence every day.
Lead high-performing teams, drive customer-centric growth, and use data and insights to improve performance.
Shape strategy and drive transformation, lead customer-focused cultures, and deliver sustainable profitability.
Cards, mobile wallets, payment processing, and value-added services.
Training designed around your business priorities.
Retail banks are now in competition with fintechs, neobanks, and mobile money operators. Those businesses don't have bigger budgets than banks but they often know their customers better.
They've often built their businesses from the ground up around a customer-centred business model. Banks have evolved from businesses that were built mostly around corporate and commercial businesses rather than around individual customers.
At the Retail Banking Institute, we help you build customer-centred cultures. While many banks remain trapped in product-centric models designed for the transaction era, we equip your team to compete in the digital age with confidence.
Retail Banking Institute work at every level, from frontline to C-suite, to break down silos and build a modern, customer-focused retail bank. Our programmes help you turn customer data into actionable insight, and daily decisions into long-term profitability.
What we deliver:
Start building a customer-centred bank today. Talk to us about your transformation.
Digitalisation is unstoppable – but this shift isn’t technical. It’s cultural.
It’s about training your people to take ownership of the customer relationship. It’s about instilling the discipline to gather, analyse, and act on customer insight. And it’s about building the capability to drive and sustain change across the bank.
We align your people, processes, and leadership to meet rising expectations. Our faculty brings global, practical experience across developed and emerging markets, helping you compete by unlocking the potential of the people you already have.
Our core programmes:
For frontline staff running day-to-day operations, such as tellers, customer service, operations staff, sales staff, and call centre teams.
For managers and people leading teams, products, and performance, such as relationship managers, sales managers, segment managers, risk managers, and analytics managers.
For senior leaders and future executives, such as Head of Credit, Head of Digital, Head of Strategy, Retail & MSME, Area Directors and Business District Directors.
Our modules deliver up-to-date global best practice, reinforced through weekly live interactive tutorials tailored to your bank and its specific challenges.
Caroline Hastings
Chief Executive
caroline.hastings@lafferty.com
+353871736297
+353 (0)87 173 6297
retailbankinginstitute.com
10 weeks
10 modules
8-10 hours per week
Weekly exams
One-hour recorded tutorials (large groups)
Dedicated support service
Cost: €799
enquiries@lafferty.com
caroline.hastings@lafferty.com
The Leeson Enterprise Centre
Altamont Street
Westport, Co. Mayo
Ireland
F28 ET85