Events
June 20 2013Location: Valetta, Malta
With International Sanctions playing an increasingly critical and central role in global trade and financial relations, institutions are obliged to stay up to date to latest developments in the field. What this programme is going to provide is a thorough look in currently available tools and techniques.
Specifically, it will consist of a general overview of the domestic and transnational nature of crime, financial crime and the destabilisation it is having on localities and nations and their people. Also a discussion on economic friction and its role will be developed, together with its countercurrent objectives.
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June 10 2013
Location: Athens, Greece
On the first day information on SEPA will be provided. This will include an outline of the background, goals, advantages for banks, corporates and consumers, the three SEPA pillars and their workings (EC : PSD , implications for Greece and how to start a PSP); EPC with their rulebooks and the ECB with its progress reports. EBA and EACHA will be explained and case studies will be presented of the ACH’s Equens. After the discussion of SEPA timelines until 2016, SCT and SDD will be discussed, with all their R-transactions as well. SDD with all its intricacies will be highlighted the most. Moving on to migration, the migration plan of Greece will be discussed and a case study of the Netherlands presented. Finally the costs of payments and the implications of SEPA for transposing from cash and cheques will form part of this first day of training.
The second day will be about M-payments and E-commerce. As SEPA does not have a huge impact in these areas yet, market forces will be discussed. For mobile payments; trends, new players, business models, technology, security, regulations and categories will be covered. This discussion will also include case studies about the Triodos Bank, iTunes, Paypal, and Starbucks. Several clips will also form integral part of the training. M-wallets is also a trend, so Google wallet will be discussed.
In the field of E-commerce iDEAL and EBA’s MyBank will be part of the training.Last but not least migration to SEPA by corporates will be covered.
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May 29 2013
Location: Dubai, UAE
Basel III represents the continuation of the biggest regulatory change that the banking industry has seen in decades. It is useful to remember that Basel is only one, although a very important, component of a suite of related reforms that are changing banking, regulation, supervision and the relationship between banks and the state across the globe. In November 2010 the G20 ratified the Basel Committee’s proposals for strengthening capital and liquidity standards. In doing so, they committed the global banking industry to significant change and a transition period that extends beyond 2020.
Before the financial crisis, the focus of banking regulators was primarily on capital. One outcome of the crisis, however, has been recognition by regulators and financial institutions that liquidity is of equal importance and must be addressed in a comprehensive risk management framework. Consequently, most large financial services firms have made significant investments in these frameworks. The current focus of leading institutions is to enhance their reporting and stress testing capabilities through investments in data and technology infrastructure, as well as to incorporate liquidity formally within their enterprise risk and funds transfer pricing frameworks. The management of funding and liquidity is increasingly a core part of the strategic planning framework and proactive balance sheet management.
Distant deadlines have the danger of creating complacency and inaction. Leading banks recognize this threat and have no desire to suffer the same fate as the apocryphal simmering frog. The market is also asking how banks will be impacted. The question then, is what practical actions should banks be taking? This 2-day course aims to answer those questions by providing a comprehensive introduction and overview of Basel III.
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May 29 2013
Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
This is an intensive 2-day primer for banking & financial professionals on International Trade Finance. This course has been tailored for professionals in banking, commerce and trade & industry who need to gain a closer understanding of International Trade Finance.
The course provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding all aspects of International Trade Finance in a global context, covering the key principles, concepts, infrastructures, practices, issues, and current developments. Take advantage of our Group rates NOW!
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May 27 2013
Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
A comprehensive package covering all the key aspects of Operational Risk from assessment to mitigation. It will enable participants to understand the key issues as well as plan and manage the implementation of the operational risk management processes in their bank or financial institution. Take advantage of our Group rates NOW!
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April 22 2013
Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Anti Money Laundering can be characterized as the on-going process towards safety and reputation. Financial institutions and field professionals. The growing use of technology and the impact of globalization in daily transactions increase the risk an institution takes not to realize a suspicious transcaction compromising itself towards penalties and worsen, lack of reputation. This five days course will focus and guide you through the various elements and percepectives of AML management (Institution, Regulator, Customer) and furthermore introduce you to currrent environement conditions in the US, the EU and elsewhere, while provide you all this mapping needed for the development of effective and efficient AML processes and procedures.
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April 15 2013
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Over the past period financial institutions and markets have experienced imbalances in their risk structure, design, monitor, and management applications. Significance over the understanding and handling of risk assessment and determination was raised and acknowledgement for better improvements on the processes and tools has been realized. This program offers best practices and tools towards a better understanding of the risk environment and its dimensions by allowing participants to develop comprehensive approaches that will help them achieve more effective and efficient actions.
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April 08 2013
Location: Valetta, Malta
This two days program will guide you through the latest developments of the SEPA framework and implementation. A two days program suitable for the banking sector as well as the corporate one. Register now and understand the trends of the market by going through the three SEPA pillars and their workings.
More information on the program contents can be found in this link
April 02 2013
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
A four days training course in Insurance Claims Management principles and practices. A program that will enable attendees to understand fully the claims environment and furthermore, will provide them the notion and the tools needed in Claims management.
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March 12 2013
Location: Athens, Greece
About the Course
This is an intensive 2-day primer for banking & financial professionals on International Trade Finance. This course has been tailored for professionals in banking, commerce and trade & industry who need to gain a closer understanding of International Trade Finance. The course provides a comprehensive foundation for understanding all aspects of International Trade Finance in a global context, covering the key principles, concepts, infrastructures, practices, issues, and current developments.This course will be of especial interest to banking & commercial professionals who wish to expand their knowledge base enhance their expertise and advance their careers into the international trade finance arena. Participants who complete this training workshop
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February 25 2013
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
With clients demanding results and level of service over the past period, financial markets had to adapt and enhance the role of the relationship manager to a competent, on the technical side, eager to provide the best service to the clients benefit; relationship drive n role.
Upon those changes, INTERFIMA presents a fully EQF accredited Relationship Management professional program dealing both with technicalities of financial tools and instruments and relational elements of any professional development. It is suitable for private bankers, insurance agents, financial advisors and consultants, small businesses and families officers, etc.
February 22 2013
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Project financing can be considered as the motor to modern societies’ progress and development. After the economic meltdown and the scarcity of funds around the globe, project finance was impacted heavily. New means, instruments and approaches had to be adopted to balance the downturn of the activity with the necessity for better living conditions.
This one day intensive executive course examines project financing on its full dimension, proving a round view on how things have evolved in the project financing arena due to the latest global developments by focusing on sectors such transportation, infrastructure, energy, utilities, industrial development, etc.
February 18 2013
Location: Pieta, Malta
About the Course
All over the world, economies are shifting, new players come into play and clients become more demanding than before. New products, and a continues competition for dominance over corporate services as well as the heavily involved use of new technologies force banks and other financial institutions to excel themselves and adapt to the newly formed conditions. A good understanding of the latest trends and the ability to foresee market movements is required for higher professional service level and for offering better corporate solutions to clients. A proper use of information and client education towards need satisfaction is also a must under these fragile, volatile and highly competitve times.
Through the program attendees will position themselves in the middle of market and corporate banking developments, learn by top quality speaker best practices and effective approaches towards corporate clients needs coverage, under profitable for the institution product/service lines driving value propositions to even higher levels.
February 11 2013
Location: Dubai, UAE
The international financial crises brought the relationship between financial institutions and their clients into a new era with major changes. Client relationship management is becoming the focal point in the financial industry all over the world. Financial institutions are no longer just advisors or only react to the queries which they receive from the customers, rather they are becoming the partners of their customers and they should be proactive to identify the client’s needs. This workshop moves participants into those changes making its main focus on satisfying client needs and their expectations from financial institutions.
December 11 2012
Location: Athens, Greece
Over the past years, Value-at-Risk (VAR) has emerged as synonymous to risk management and later on linked with capital adequacy. It is indeed central to quantifying and assessing a portfolio’s overall risk profile and integral to any successful risk measurement strategy.
The course will provide a review of financial risk, market volatility and regulatory aspect of capital adequacy, while examining both theoretical and practical aspects of market and credit VAR. Approaches to modelling time-varying volatility and correlations will first be considered with emphasis placed on applications of methods in the context of VAR analysis.
In-depth analysis and practical implementation of market VAR approaches, including the RiskMetrics system developed by JP Morgan and alternative simulation based techniques, are central to the course. VAR validation and stress testing within the Basel regulatory guidelines will be considered. Finally, the course will be concluded with credit VAR and the pertinent frameworks developed by the industry such as the CreditMetrics (JP Morgan) and CreditRisk+ (Credit Suisse)
December 11 2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Follow us on latest Cash Management, developments both on the side of services and products offered by banks and institutions but also on the sense of what is coming up next? Islamic funds and the rise of Renminbi could determine new set of rules for the banking operations game. Stay tuned and learn from one of the best, how your organization can grasp future opportunities and achieve high quality and returns levels.
December 10 2012
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
With clients demanding results and level of service over the past period, financial markets had to adapt and enhance the role of the relationship manager to a competent, on the technical side, eager to provide the best service to the clients benefit; relationship drive n role.
Upon those changes, INTERFIMA presents a fully EQF accredited Relationship Management professional program dealing both with technicalities of financial tools and instruments and relational elements of any professional development. It is suitable for private bankers, insurance agents, financial advisors and consultants, small businesses and families officers, etc.
December 10 2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Register now for this best selling training program that is offered for the first time in the Turkish market. A course that will provide professionals with a comprehensive foundation for understanding payments in a global context, covering the key principles, concepts, infrastructures, practices, issues, and current developments.
December 06 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
In a constantly shifting and mobile world, new wealth rises, new regions and locations in Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere are competing with traditional ones like Switzerland and the UK for the lines of service offered, and the levels of satisfaction (qualitative) and return (quantitative).
With Private Banking becoming a major point of interest for the Luxembourg market and its associated institutions, this program offers insights on applications of Private Banking and Wealth Management principles from Switzerland, the Middle East and Asia. It’s scope is to provide banking and financial services professionals a clear view of best practices and other tools around the globe and to assist in developing a localized value proposition focusing on an international audience-clientele.
Join us in this two days event and register both for the workshop and the roundtable at this privileged registration fee.
December 06 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Benefit NOW from this unique opportunity INTERFIMA offers you!
Register at a discounted price for one of the two options in the Luxembourg Wealth Management Conference upon interest on either the Workshops or the Roundtable.
In a constantly shifting and mobile world, new wealth rises, new regions and locations in Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere are competing with traditional ones like Switzerland and the UK for the lines of service offered, and the levels of satisfaction (qualitative) and return (quantitative).
With Private Banking becoming a major point of interest for the Luxembourg market and its associated institutions, this program offers insights on applications of Private Banking and Wealth Management principles from Switzerland, the Middle East and Asia. It’s scope is to provide banking and financial services professionals a clear view of best practices and other tools around the globe and to assist in developing a localized value proposition focusing on an international audience-clientele.
November 30 2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
INTERFIMA and AON Hewitt, cordially invite you to attend on this unique half a day roundtable event. Market experts, in a roundtable set up will present all latest developments in the Insurance industry as these will be shaped under a new Solvency II framework. Participants will engage with upcoming trends in technical aspects such as reserves and investments as well as operations and regulation.
November 29 2012
Location: Athens, Greece
Speakers, of different fields, will present recent developments in the market after the severe effects of the crisis, and lead us in understanding the necessity for different practices, an approach that will help us avoid mistakes of the past and guide us through a more secure future.
Wealth Management, as a principle is a function targeting financial advisors, planners, insurance agents, investment consultants και family office and small businesses advisors, returning the highest servicing level.
November 22 2012
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
A very appealing M&A two days workshop, delivering to the attendants insights of the corporate finance market, in relation to current trends and forthcoming developments. Get ready to learn from and exceptional professional, O.Rifai, practical tools and techniques that will enhance your background and help you become more effecient in your day to day job.
November 20 2012
Location: London, UK
All over the world, economies are shifting, new players come into play and clients become more demanding than before. New products, and a continues competition for dominance over corporate services as well as the heavily involved use of new technologies force banks and other financial institutions to excel themselves and adapt to the newly formed conditions.
November 20 2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Follow us and register on this two days intensive training program provided by INTERFIMA and delivered by two of the most profound speakers around the globe; Sanctions, a current reality and necessity for institutions around the regions.
November 18 2012
Location: Dubai, UAE
Solvency II is expected to become a reality soon for insurance markets across the globe. Under this fact, insurance companies, brokerages and agencies have to adapt themselves to the new era of guidelines and requirements on both quantitative and qualitative aspects. Would that transition be smooth to the new regime or just another issue to be solved by the insurance world?
November 06 2012
Location: Dubai, UAE
Basel III represents the continuation of the biggest regulatory change that the banking industry has seen in decades. It is useful to remember that Basel is only one, although a very important, component of a suite of related reforms that are changing banking, regulation, supervision and the relationship between banks and the state across the globe..
October 23 2012
Location: Nicosia, Cyrpus
Join this one day intensive training event and learn amongst others, how the local financial system can benefit and enhance its international products and services offerings. Follow all latest developments in the field of banking and corporate treasury management and take advantage of trends coming into place for Islamic funds and Chinese Renmimbi activities.
October 16 2012
Location: Dubai, UAE
This executive presentation on Cash Management products and services, initates the international series of such program ran in London, Luxembourg and Cyprus among others for the rest of 2012. Find out all latest developments in the competitive market of international banking in a variety of fields and applications. Suitable for banking executives and corporate treasury officers.
October 15 2012
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Follow us on this risk management course with a focus on financial fraud for finance institutions and professionals. This two days intensive workshop will reveal all current developments in the risk arena and latest trends in adopting your operations to successful mitigation of the fraud threat.
October 11 2012
Location: Las Vegas, USA
In the past decade Operations Risk Management has been increasingly pushed into the foreground by the work and the requirements of international standard setting bodies, such as the Bank for International Settlements. However, through various recommendations, as well as specific covenants, specifically the Basel Accords, operational risk management often becomes merely a compliance issue facing most banks. Nothing can be further than the truth..
October 02 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The economics of IFCs are shaped by classical competitive advantage. The IFC’s banks have been more innovative because they have existed under the more flexible IFC laws and supported by a dynamic professional community. These differences form the environment for the innovation that allows for an attractive competitive financial center to emerge. In traditional banking and finance, these differences are disappearing. Consortia of powerful and less competitive nations are forcing IFCs to adopt their “world class” regulations, saddling the IFCs clients with onerous compliance measures while outright disallowing many advantageous features of their structure. We are all aware of this -- but it needs to be restated as a foundation. Yet the future is bright for those who choose to act.
There are coming advantages in many different tradition bound services such as education and medicine. There are many new ideas about the role international finance and innovative jurisdictions are going to play in the future of not just finance and governance, but in fields such as sovereign debt, and intellectual property and critical information and jurisprudence. And in the Internet and the innovations its is offering in the identification of new markets, the delivery of services and products, well its a great deal to look at.
Indeed the future is bright, but much work lays ahead.
Participants who complete this training workshop will be given a certificate of attendance issued by the International Association of Financial Management’s professional body while being awarded a full status membership to the organization.
October 02 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
All over the world, economies are shifting, new players come into play and clients become more demanding than before. New products, and a continues competition for dominance over corporate services as well as the heavily involved use of new technologies force banks and other financial institutions to excel themselves and adapt to the newly formed conditions.
September 20 2012
Location: London, UK
Basel III represents the continuation of the biggest regulatory change that the banking industry has seen in decades. It is useful to remember that Basel is only one, although a very important, component of a suite of related reforms that are changing banking, regulation, supervision and the relationship between banks and the state across the globe..
June 26 2012
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Come join us on this one day workshop in Project Financing. Operations framework and the way such activities have been affected by the global economic slowdown will be discussed.
June 13 2012
Location: NYC, USA
June 12 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
This executive presentation on Cash Management products and services, initates the international series of such program ran in London, Dubai and Cyprus among others for the rest of 2012. Find out all latest developments in the competitive market of international banking in a variety of fields and applications. Suitable for banking executives and corporate treasury officers.
June 11 2012
Location: NYC, USA
A two days executive program dealing with internal processes and operations issues of the financial industry with greater goal, more effective and efficient operations. Find out how such improvements can benefit both the institutions and the clientele they are servicing.
May 10 2012
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Dear Madam, Dear Sir,
The International Association of Financial Management (INTERFIMA) and People Primetime cordially invite you at a breakfast conference
at the Hotel Melia located 10 Rue Fort Thuengen - L- 1499 Luxembourg, on May 24th, 2012 at 08.30 AM.
The speaker for this event will be Anastasios Avranas, Chairman of INTERFIMA. The agenda will be:
- Presentation and objectives of INTERFIMA
- Introduction of the first Training program in Luxembourg
- Questions and answers session
We would be honored by your presence and it will be a delight to meet and discuss with you.
Please RSPV to this event, by May 21st. to Mr. Salvatore Genovese at sgenovese@interfima.org
Your attendance will be much appreciated.
May 09 2012
Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Operational Risk management can be characterized one of the most trivial and critical aspects of modern risk management during the times we're facing. Share along with the INTERFIMA stuff and associates the experience of enhancing your knowledge and understanding on topics such as Basel II and III, Black Swan effects and other more.
May 07 2012
Location: Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
A two days executive program dealing with internal processes and operations issues of the financial industry with greater goal, more effective and efficient operations. Find out how such improvements can benefit both the institutions and the clientele they are servicing.
May 03 2012
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Follow up with current trends in the retail banking industry, associated to branch management network utilization and channel mix. A useful training workshop for all latest developments in the retail branch management world.
April 23 2012
Location: Athens, Greece
Follow us on this risk management course with a focus on financial fraud for finance institutions and professionals. This two days intensive workshop will reveal all current developments in the risk arena and latest trends in adopting your operations to successful mitigation of the fraud threat.