Affiliate International Retail Banker programme begins on Wednesday 4 June 2025 and runs until 6 August 2025. Full details of the June 2025 Schedule can be found below
The Affiliate International Retail Banker programme is RBI's entry-level retail banking qualification and is designed for people who run the bank on a day-to-day basis, such as salespeople or marketing people, people working in operations, or credit risk officers. This programme is designed for busy professionals, and can be taken over the course of ten weeks with a requirement of 6 to 10 hours per week to cover reading, study, tutorials and exams.
Date | Module | Time | Tutor |
4 June | Introduction to Retail Banking | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
11 June | Ethics and Customer Trust | 2pm | Prof Paul Griffiths |
18 June | Customer Management I | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
25 June | Sales Management | 2pm | Carlos Wanderley |
2 July | Marketing for Retail Banks | 2pm | Carlos Wanderley |
9 July | Profitable Propositions | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
16 July | Payments | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
23 July | Operations and IT | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
30 July | Risk Management | 2pm | Dr Essam El Mallakh |
6 Aug | Retail Credit Risk I | 2pm | Dr Essam El Mallakh |
Certified International Retail Banker programme is designed for senior executives already serving or planning to serve in management roles. Candidates receive reading material each week that separately cover Governance, ESG and Sustainability, Risk Leadership, Building a Modern Customer-Centric Digital Retail Bank, Leadership, Brand Management, and Asset and Liability Management. Once candidates have prepared themselves with the reading material, they join a weekly online interactive small group tutorials led by our specialist instructors. The programme runs by continual assessment, and each week, candidates complete a mini-exam following each module. This high level programme runs for seven consecutive weeks from Thursday 10 April 2025.
Date | Module | Time | Tutor |
10 April | Bank Governance | 2pm | Prof Paul Griffiths |
17 April | ESG and Sustainability | 2pm | Prof Paul Griffiths |
24 April | Risk Leadership | 2pm | Dr Essam El Mallakh |
8 May | Building a Modern Digital Retail Bank | 2pm | Stuart Harle |
15 May | Leadership | 2pm | Carlos Wanderley |
22 May | Brand Management | 2pm | Carlos Wanderley |
29 May | Asset and Liability Management | 2pm | Carlos Wanderley |
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