Reading on Financial Inclusion

Description

Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (formerly The Indian Institute of Bankers) was established in 1928. With more than 750 Institutional members and over 2.5 lac individual members, it is the largest Institute of its kind in the world and and is working with a mission "to develop professionally qualified and competent bankers and finance professionals primarily through a process of education, training, examination consultancy / counseling and continuing professional development programmes".

The Institute has almost all the banks and financial institutions, public sector, private sector, foreign, co-operative, regional rural banks as members in addition to IT companies and individuals working in the banking and finance sector. The Institute is managed by a Governing Council consisting of CMDs of different banks and eminent academicians. It offers a number of professional courses in banking and finance.

The flagship programmes of the Institute are JAIIB and CAIIB. Other specialist courses are 'Diploma in Treasury, Investment & Risk Management', Diploma in International Banking', Diploma in Banking Technology' and ' Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Advising'. These programmes aim at building skill sets and developing the competence among specialist officers of banks and financial institutions