Chartered Institute of Bankers Ghana continues to help the banking trade’s sustainability via human capital improvement. As a part of delivering on its mandate to advertise banking schooling and regulate the follow of banking in Ghana, the Institute has graduated 620 chartered bankers within the final three years.
This was disclosed by the Chief Govt of the Institute, Robert Dzato, in the course of the thirteenth induction and commencement ceremony held in Accra for the newly Chartered Bankers. These Chartered Bankers have accomplished the Institute’s necessities of examination and sensible expertise in addition to orientation.
The 2022 ceremony was held below the theme ‘Way forward for Banking in Ghana: Ethics, Professionalism, and ESG Imperatives. In his keynote tackle, John Kofi Adomako, the Managing Director of GCB Financial institution, congratulated the Institute and its newly certified bankers.
He indicated that, to remain within the competitors, the banking trade wants human capital within the areas of information analytics, AI, digital management, buyer centricity, ESG amongst others. Commenting on the theme, he mentioned banks ought to undertake Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) insurance policies and to have mechanisms in place to evaluate the influence on their companies.
Mr. Adomako mentioned: “The position of banks and bankers is more and more going past the regulatory compliance and worth creation for stakeholders. There’s a agency conviction by banks to advance to environmental, social and governance each inside their organizations and with their clients, regulators and broader stakeholders. How banks embed ESG ideas of their governance cloth and tradition are issues we needs to be excited about.”
He additionally acknowledged that the banking sector is dealing with a mixture of disruptions and the need for banks to reply strategically. “Information-driven fintechs and telcos are main the cost in deploying data-driven insights to construct worthwhile companies that present options based mostly on buyer journeys. To reply successfully, banks must reinvent the ecosystems, platforms and information belongings that permit them to monetize information and pursue clever promoting and cross-selling of services and products.
On his half, The President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB) Ghana, Benjamin Amenumey applauded the newly graduated college students and inductees for his or her tenacity, diligence, and perseverance in getting this far. “I congratulate our inductees and graduands for this nice achievement. I commend the good efforts of our Institute, facilitators, lecturers, examiners, our exterior instructing centres and employees of the Institute for his or her contribution,” he mentioned.
He urged the brand new inductees to continue learning to remain present with the newest monetary trade tendencies. “Be alert to new tendencies and continue learning new abilities, purchase new data to resolve issues and stay related. The day you cease studying new stuff, that’s the day you begin dying,” he mentioned.
The Chief Govt of CIB Ghana, Robert Dzato, admonished the newly inducted Chartered Bankers to do extra than simply banking. He suggested them to leverage their chartered banker standing to reap the benefits of the associated banking companies as stipulated within the Institute’s Act, 2016 (Act 991). To remodel the notion of bankers, he suggested the freshly graduated college students and inductees to try for and thrive on ethics and professionalism.
“You might be graduating at a time when ethics is vital. In the event you have a look at the Financial institution of Ghana report for 2021, GH¢61 million was misplaced resulting from fraud. Alarmingly, 53 per cent of the fraud concerned employees of banks. So, you’re going on the market because the voice of conscience and the voice of professionalism. Now we have a duty to re-professionalize banking,” he added.
He additionally indicated that the Institute is presently reviewing its syllabus to handle abilities hole and equip bankers with competencies in information and analytics, Synthetic Intelligence (AI), digital and ESG; however ethics will stay elementary to the CIB Ghana qualification.
Six (6) prizes got out by the Institute to some inductees who demonstrated distinctive efficiency by doing properly of their respective programs. Kwabena Owusu Asante from GCB Financial institution received the Strategic Advertising and marketing Administration Award of the Yr; Benjamin Owusu from GCB Financial institution received each Worldwide Commerce Finance and Banking Operations- Regulation, Market Follow, and Treasury Administration of the Yr; Korkor Ngobi Azina-Nartey from Ecobank PLC received Company Governance of the Yr Award; Christabel Naa Ayorkor Armah of Entry Financial institution PLC received Danger Administration Award of the Yr, and Michael Agbetepey of Agave Rural Financial institution PLC received Microfinance and Rural Banking Award of the Yr.
Princess Jemimah Cato from the Financial institution of Ghana emerged because the valedictorian of the 12 months profitable essentially the most promising inductee amongst her colleagues. Expressing her profound pleasure, she reminisced concerning the lengthy and sometimes arduous journey which had introduced them to their commencement day and on behalf of the commencement class thanked the directors and employees of the institute in addition to their households of the graduating class for his or her help. She additional urged her colleagues to uphold the identify of the institutes in excessive esteem by upholding the ethics, experience, publicity and schooling.
“We should uphold our ethics, honesty, and professionalism in a subject like ours in order that they’ll’t be minimized. And relating to schooling, I advised that each one bankers undergo CIB Ghana to achieve the professionalism required out there. The world is heading towards inexperienced financing, so I counsel banking administration to do the identical. Lastly, they need to know their respective fields to succeed,” she mentioned.
Some key dignitaries who graced the event had been the Quick Previous President of CIB Ghana, Rt. Rev. Patricia Sappor; Managing Director for GCB Financial institution PLC, John Kofi Adomakoh; Council Members, Fellows, ACIBs, representatives of different skilled our bodies and different invited visitors
