Commercial Bank Management

An overview of banks and their services; the impact of government policy and regulation on banking; the organisation and structure of banks and their industry; the financial statements of a bank; measuring and evaluation bank performance; asset liability management - determining and measuring interest rates and controlling a bank's interest sensitive gap; asset liability management - the concepts of duration and managing a bank's duration gap; financial futures; options, swaps and other asset-liability management techniques; off balance sheet financing in banking and credit derivatives; the investment function in banking; liquidity and reserve management strategies; making deposit services and non-deposit investment products; pricing deposit related services; managing non-deposit liabilities and other sources of bank funds; managing of a bank's equity capital position; bank lending - policies and procedures; pricing business loans; consumer and real estate lending; pricing consumer and real estate loans; creating and managing bank service outlets - establishing new banks, branches, electronic and automated facilities; bank mergers and acquisitions - managing the acquisitions process; international banking service options.