Professional courses for the peoplewho run Africa’s institutions.

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain the role of capital markets in mobilising long-term finance for economic development
• Compare the regulatory frameworks governing primary and secondary securities markets
• Assess the institutional architecture of a capital markets authority and its supervisory powers

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Structure and compare the major sukuk types used in African and Gulf capital markets.
• Evaluate a sukuk issuance process from mandate to listing, including key market participants.
• Assess Islamic investment funds and their role within Islamic capital markets.

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain the core principles that distinguish Islamic from conventional finance.
• Identify the prohibited elements of riba, gharar and maysir and why they are prohibited.
• Distinguish between the core Islamic contracts: murabaha, ijara, musharaka and mudaraba.

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain ESG and sustainable finance concepts and their relevance to banking
• Distinguish between physical and transition climate risk
• Assess climate risk within credit and counterparty analysis

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain the principles of sound governance in a banking context
• Evaluate the role and effectiveness of the board and its committees
• Apply professional and ethical standards to banking decisions

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain how non-performing loans are classified and measured
• Analyse the early warning signs that a loan is moving towards distress
• Distinguish between restructuring, workout and enforcement as recovery paths

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain the role and architecture of a national payment system
• Distinguish between real time gross settlement and deferred net settlement systems
• Analyse the clearing and settlement process for different payment types

Key Skills You’ll Learn

• Explain the objectives and functions of a modern central bank
• Analyse the tools of monetary policy and how they are applied
• Trace the transmission mechanism from policy rate to the real economy