Accreditation of The Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) Credit Program has been approved by the famous London based ifs School of finance, UK. This development follows the visit of the facilities assessment team led by Mr. Tony Turnock, ifs Chief Assessor in September, 2006 to BIBF and the recent final visit by Mr. Geoff Brown, ifs Technical Consultant. Mr. Geoff was received by the BIBF Deputy Director, Mr. Hussain Ismail and Division Head Learning Centers, Mr. Hussain Al Ajmi along with other Senior Staff of the Institute on May13, 2007.

The ifs visit, which lasted for three days (May 13-15, 2007), was primarily centered around the final accreditation of the Institute’s Credit Program, headed by Dr. Subhadra Ganguli, Senior Instructor, Banking Learning Center.

With this development, BIBF is ready to start the program on May 20, 2007 with 20 registered participants drawn from various financial Institutions within the region.  The program will be delivered by BIBF’s own expert faculty and external consultants who have specially flown in for the program.

The accredited program has been divided into three levels and at each level, participants are expected to undergo a two- week intensive training in areas of total quality management of credit risk assets, credit analysis and techniques for quality portfolio management in financial institutions. The course will be followed by a written assessment followed by an on-the-job project under the supervision of the participant’s line manager.

Levels II and III are scheduled to take place in early September and early November of this year respectively.

BIBF is committed to providing the practical and technical training programs to the employees of banking and financial institutions in the GCC region and beyond through organized courses, workshops and professional accredited programs. Therefore, it maintains its position as the leading and premier training institution for the banking and financial sector in and around the MENA region and outside. 

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