Incorporating the latest Basel III framework, including the complete set of capital and liquidity ratios, it allows participants to see how the rules affect banks and impact profits. Key decision areas include:

• Setting overall strategy
• Lending
• Financing
• Treasury management using a variety of financial instruments
• Risk management across a wide spectrum of exposures
• Investment
• Managing capital and liquidity
• Operations and IT
• Compliance with banking regulations.

Global Banker can simulate conditions and conventions specific to one particular country, or can demonstrate principles generally applicable throughout the world. The simulation is always tailored to mirror the business and culture of the participating institution, and configured to emphasise the specific learning objectives of each individual client.

Global Banker is an invaluable experience for managers who need to master the business of banking from a strategic perspective in order to lead from the top. The seminar promotes creative thinking, teamwork and problem solving and explores almost every aspect of banking in practice. Participants from across the commercial banking spectrum have benefited from the challenge of Global Banker, appreciating how each individual contributes to the organisation as a whole, and how they can maximise the effectiveness of that contribution.

Global Banker is flexible and can be set up with varying degrees of complexity to meet the needs of the participants. It is an excellent and practical introduction to the business of banking for new hires, while creating a challenging and illuminating experience for existing management. Global Banker is also a powerful learning experience for central bankers and regulators.