Online Treasury training programs: a new trend and options increase

| 21-11-2016 | Annette Gillhart |

If you are working as a treasurer and think about following a training you might as well look on the internet: an increasing number of programs are given online. We thought that it might be useful to check what’s on there and present a few.

A small selection of what we found

 

• Hecht Consult Bank Training and Treasury Consultancy
  Michiel van den Broek is a financial expert and has hands on experience managing foreign exchange and interest risk. The last 10 years, Michiel has focused on training and has set up the Financial Training Hub. He has created custom programs and delivered training to hundreds of participants working for banks, financial supervisors and other financial institutions on subjects such as financial markets, asset & liability management and risk management. Michiel has published an e-book ‘Understand Banks & Financial Markets’ to introduce training participants in the world of finance. He offers training programs such as Financial Markets (Advanced), Banking Basics, Risk Management Basics, Compliance and Financial Markets, Introduction Asset & Liability Management, Bank Management and more. Read more

• Coursera
  Free training programs! Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take. Their mission is to provide universal access to the world’s best education. Statement from their website: ‘Online learning plays a significant role in a lifelong education. In fact, a recent report by the U.S. Department of Education found that “classes with online learning (whether taught completely online or blended) on average produce stronger student learning outcomes than do classes with solely face-to-face instruction.’ Go and check the search term  ‘Treasury’. At the moment they offer two trainings: ‘Global Financial Markets and Instruments’ and ‘The Global Financial Crisis’. Read more

• Treasury Services
  Next to other services they offer Treasury training and education in their Treasury Acadamy. The e-learning Treasury Academy enables participants of programs to decide when, where and how they want to follow training courses. Training courses are instantly available through their secured platform. They offer training programs on Foreign Exchange Risk Management, Foreign Exchange Options, Interest Rates and Interest Rates Risk, Modern Bootstrapping, Cash Management and more. Read more

Many more options

It is obvious that this is just a small selection of what can be found. There is more and options increase. If you do not want to follow courses alone you can consider peer assesments or blended learning, too.

Have you followed an online training program lately?  Please feel free to share your experience!

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