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Qualifications

Chartered Banker

Course Structure

The Chartered Banker Programme has a core and options structure. To complete the award candidates must pass 11 credits including the required core units in Section A and Section B.

Credit Value
COMPULSORY SUBJECT (From 1 September 2008)
   
Professionalism and Ethics
1.0
 
SECTION A - CORE SUBJECTS (Candidates must complete at least one credit from this section)
   
Retail Banking
1.0
Business Banking
1.0
UK Financial Services
1.0
Building Society Operations
1.0
 
SECTION B - CORE SUBJECTS (Candidates must complete at least three credits from this section)
   
Financial Management
1.0
Business Law
1.0
Financial Economics
1.0
Management Strategy and Leadership
1.0
 
In addition to the four credits completed from Sections A & B, candidates must complete a further six credits which can be drawn from either Sections A, B or C.
 
SECTION C - ELECTIVE SUBJECTS
   
The Compliant Person and Regulatory Risk
0.5
Credit Risk Practice
0.5
Private Banking and Wealth Management
0.5
International Business
0.5
Corporate Finance
1.0
Managing People
1.0
Customer Relationship Management
0.5
Marketing Financial Services
1.0
Operational Risk Management
0.5
Call Centre Management
1.0
Project Management

0.5
Money Laundering
0.5
Financial Crime
0.5
Investment
1.0

* Existing Chartered Banker students can enrol for the 'ApEx' subjects until 30th June 2008 and have one year to sit the relevant examination. From 1st July 2008, students cannot enrol for the 'ApEx' subjects within the Chartered Banker qualification.

Professional and Ethics

  • Ethical Concepts and Behaviour
  • The Professional Banker
  • Corporate Governance and Responsibility
  • Management and Administration
  • Risk and Control
  • Social and Environmental Responsibilities

Section A

Retail Banking - Core A Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Money Transmission
  • Savings and Investment
  • Other Bank Services
  • Customer-Banker Relationship
  • Advances to Customers
  • Mortgage Lending
  • Securities for Advances
  • Diligence and Bankruptcy

Business Banking - Core A Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • The Canons of Lending
  • Security
  • Control of Advances
  • Assessing Customer Needs
  • Sources of Finance
  • When Things Go Wrong
  • Diligence and Bankruptcy

UK Financial Services - Core A Subject - Credit Value 1.0

  • The Financial Markets
  • The Law, Regulation and the Financial Services Sector
  • Government, Economics and the Financial Services Sector
  • Savings Products
  • Fixed Interest Securities
  • Stock Market-based Investments
  • Property and Mortgages
  • Financial Planning
  • Income Tax
  • Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax
  • The FSA and High Level Regulation
  • The FSA - Authorisation, Supervision and Enforcement
  • The Conduct of Business Rules
  • Anti-Money Laundering

Building Society Operations - Core A Subject - Credit Value 1.0

  • Introduction to mutuality
  • Regulation
  • Financial operations
  • Management and administration
  • Funding products
  • Lending and related products
  • Channels to market
  • Complaints and compensation
  • Changes in corporate form<
  • Trade associations

 

Section B

Financial Management - Core B Subject - Credit Value 1.0
  • Capital and Financing
  • Financial Accounts
  • Planning and Control
  • Budgets and budgetary control
  • Performance Management
  • Ratio analysis
  • Sources of finance and capital structure
  • Managerial decision making
  • Valuation of companies and securities

Business Law - Core B Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Legal system
  • Agency
  • Partnership
  • Company Law
  • Negotiable Instruments
  • Consumer Credit Act

Financial Economics - Core B Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Money and Financial Intermediation
  • UK Financial Institutions
  • The Housing Market
  • Banking Environment
  • Social Banking
  • Bank of England and Markets
  • International Credit and Capital Markets
  • London as an International Financial Centre
  • International Institutions and Systems
  • Economic and Monetary Union
Management Strategy and Leadership - Core B Subject - Credit Value 1.0
  • The Organisation and the Manager
  • Managing Individuals and Teams
  • Leadership
  • Themes in Management
  • The Strategic Management Process
  • Organisational Mission and Objectives
  • Strategic Change
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Strategic Choice

Section C

The Compliant Person and Regulatory Risk - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • Law, regulation and ethics - their role in financial services
  • Regulation
  • Common law accountabilities
  • Codes and statements of practice
  • Complaints and compensation
  • Ethics
  • The ethical environment
  • Stakeholders
  • Ethical problems facing the individual

Credit Risk Practice - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • Credit Risk Practices of the Head Office functions of Banks
  • Risk Management framework
  • How risk is managed and overviewed via committees
  • Management of high risk customers and default accounts
  • How the Credit Risk function compliments the management of all types of risk
  • Credit Scoring of facilities
  • Regulatory Authorities
  • Risk Analysis and Assessment
Private Banking and Wealth Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5
  • Canons of lending in the context of asset rich/cash poor
  • Specialist types of client
  • Specialist investment vehicles
  • Personal taxation
  • Offshore jurisdictions
  • Partnership accounting and taxation
  • Partnership structures
  • Currency lending
  • Estate planning
  • Taxation

International Business - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • International Trade
  • Methods of Payment in International Trade
  • Travel Facilities
  • Foreign Items Presented at the Branch Counter
  • Foreign Exchange
  • Cross Rates of Exchange

Corporate Finance - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Corporate Environment
  • Regulatory environment
  • Securitisation
  • The Finance Function
  • Financing structure
  • Treasury operations
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Divestments and demergers
  • Project Finance
  • Private Finance Initiative
  • Risk sharing

Managing People - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Organisations
  • Management Skills
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Project Planning
  • Meetings
  • Human Resource Development and Training
  • Human Resource Management

Customer Relationship Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • Concepts and Context of CRM
  • Understanding Customers
  • Information Gathering, Collation, Analysis and Evaluation
  • Managing Customer Relationships
  • Developing CRM Strategy

Marketing Financial Services - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • The Role of Marketing
  • Understanding Customers
  • Managing Marketing
  • Marketing Mix Decisions
  • Bankers as Retailers
  • Service Quality
  • International Marketing
  • Branding
  • The Internet and Technology

Financial Services Sales Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • Managing the Sales Team
  • Sales Forecasting
  • The Sales Environment
  • Training and Coaching
  • Performance Measurement
  • The Sales Interview
  • Managing Customer Relationships
  • Complaint Handling and Service Recovery
Operational Risk Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5
  • Background
  • Risk Management Process – Identification
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Monitoring and Reporting
  • Responsibility for the Management of Operational Risk
  • Business Continuity Management
  • UK Regulatory Environment

Call Centre Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 1.0

  • Business Planning
  • Technology
  • Recruitment
  • Training
  • Measuring and Managing Performance
  • Coaching
  • Motivation
  • Communication
  • Quality
  • Ergonomics
  • Outbound Telemarketing
  • Managing Change
Project Management - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5
  • Introduction to Project Management
  • Project Initiation
  • Project Planning
  • Project Implementation
  • Project Closure
Money Laundering - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5
  • Introduction to money laundering
  • The money laundering process
  • The Anti-money laundering framework
  • Anti-money laundering procedures
  • Enforcement

Financial Crime - Optional Subject - Credit Value: 0.5

  • Types of Financial Crime
  • Legislation
  • Regulation
  • Policy, Practice and Procedures
  • Enforcement
  • Sources of risk
  • Professional liability and misconduct
  • Impact of financial crime
  • Role of the Financial Services Authority
  • Codes of best practice
  • Internal audit, internal financial control and internal check
  • Management and staff fidelity

Investment - Core C Subject - Credit Value 1.0

  • Macroeconomic Factors
  • Taxation Principles and Income Tax
  • Capital Gains Tax
  • Cash-based Investments
  • Government and Other Fixed Interest Securities
  • Equities
  • Collective Investment Schemes and Other Pooled Investments
  • ISAs, PEPs and Life Assurance Products
  • Investment and Retirement
  • Ethics and Socially Responsible Investment
  • Property Investments
  • Alternative Investments
  • Investment Returns and Risk
  • Portfolio Planning and Asset Allocation