Continuing Professional Development in the banking sector
For over 35 years, MDA Training has been a trusted partner to banks worldwide. Our training solutions:
- Are grounded in the real world
- Equip your people with a practical understanding of your banking solutions
- Engage through experiential, technology-driven, hands-on learning
- Support meaningful conversations.
Experiential learning in action
Our workshops change behaviours by combining multiple learning methods depending on the required outcome, and to cater to different learning styles…
Immerse your people in a role, a context, a mindset:
- Run the Bank – act as the Bank’s management team, leading each division as well as the overall business
- Operate a trade finance department, executing your customers’ cross-border transactions
- Step into the role of a CFO in a multinational and experience managing differing operating cycles, currencies and cash flows effectively
- Market-making and trading to deliver for your customer and drive margin.
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Facilitator- or self-led activities that engage, challenge, and encourage:
- Focus not just on what the product is, but how it meets a customer need
- Understand a concept, and how that concept is applied commercially to deliver for customers and achieve your performance targets
- Individual or team-based, helping to develop and apply knowledge and experience.
Focus in on a particular business, sector, historical event, current challenge:
- In-depth analysis of a problem, its causes and potential/eventual solutions
- Upskill to spot and minimise risks before they materialise
- Learn from the experience of others, utilise more holistic Bank knowledge to deliver for customers.
Media rich learning, centred around digital activities:
- Learn at a time that suits them and fits into their day-to-day workload
- Build knowledge, skills and insights, pre and/or post learning
- Refresh skills when needed – learning on-demand.
Our areas of banking industry expertise…
Equities:
Understand market dynamics, risk metrics and trading strategies using live market scenarios
Fixed income:
Explore pricing, yield calculations, duration concepts, and curve interpretation with real companies
Foreign exchange:
Navigate FX market mechanics, quotes, forwards, and hedging strategies in the world’s most liquid market
Commodities:
Understand futures contracts, pricing drivers, swaps, and portfolio diversification techniques
Financial statement analysis:
Interpret financial statements, construct key performance metrics, and calculate ratios to assess business performance and financial health
Valuation techniques:
Understand valuation methodologies including discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis, comparable company analysis, and precedent transactions using market multiples (P/E, P/B, EV multiples)
Excel for finance:
Develop essential skills: lookup functions, pivot tables, statistical analysis, and dynamic dashboards using real financial data
Financial modelling:
Construct integrated three-statement models, build M&A scenarios, and create consolidated financial statements with confidence
Introduction to blockchain:
Dive into the world of blockchain technology and its transformative potential in the financial sector
Technology’s impact:
Explore how technology is reshaping financial market trading
Algorithmic trading:
Gain insights into algorithmic trading strategies and their application in modern finance
Credit assessment:
Analyse financial statements, calculate debt service coverage ratios, evaluate cash flow available for debt service (CFADS), and assess working capital adequacy
Lending products and structures:
Understand lending products and structure appropriate lending solutions
Loan documentation:
Navigate facility agreements, security packages, financial covenants and non-financial undertakings
Credit risk mitigation:
Structure deals with appropriate security, guarantees, and covenant protection while pricing for risk
Regulatory capital:
Calculate Risk Weighted Assets (RWA), understand Basel III requirements, capital and cyclical buffers, and leverage ratios
Risk measurement tools:
Apply Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, scenario analysis, and portfolio risk metrics
Credit risk management:
Understand probability of default (PD), loss given default (LGD), exposure at default (EAD), and expected credit loss models
Operational risk:
Identify operational risk exposures, control frameworks, and mitigation strategies
Treasury management:
Funding structures, interest rate risk management using swaps and derivatives, liquidity management, and asset-liability matching
Trade finance:
Letters of Credit, documentary collections, bank guarantees, supply chain finance, and trade risk mitigation techniques
Transaction banking:
Cash management solutions, payment systems, liquidity structures, and foreign exchange transactions for corporate clients
Asset finance:
Leasing structures and their applicability to your customer, residual value risk, credit assessment
Relationship management:
Navigate challenging conversations, determine business sustainability, address covenant breaches, and deliver difficult credit decisions with confidence
Commercial acumen:
Analyse customer financial performance, identify early warning signs, understand sector dynamics, and spot cross-selling opportunities
Stakeholder engagement:
Build trust with CFOs and finance teams, present credit proposals internally, and manage relationships during economic stress
Looking for professional skills workshops in a finance context?
Effectiveness in a role isn’t just about technical expertise – it’s about how your people apply it every day. We design engaging professional skills workshops that tackle real workplace challenges, from client communication and stakeholder influence to navigating difficult conversations and working effectively under pressure. Every programme is tailored to the realities of your industry, ensuring learning feels relevant, practical, and immediately usable. Whether you need virtual or in-person delivery, development for early careers or experienced professionals, or targeted activities to strengthen an existing learning solution, we’ll help you build the skills that turn knowledge into impact.
Explore our recent projects from practical simulations to modular CPD…
Accelerating capability through a blended lending skills programme
Accelerating capability through a blended lending skills programme
A Lending Skills CPD Programme, specifically tailored to our banking client’s needs – offering a scalable, blended learning solution.
Bite-sized banking workshops supported enterprise-wide capability development
Bite-sized banking workshops supported enterprise-wide capability development
A suite of modular, virtual workshops designed to deliver focused, high-value technical content in concise 90-minute sessions.
How a banking credit simulation strengthened relationship manager capability
How a banking credit simulation strengthened relationship manager capability
A credit assessment simulation based around a fictitious pizza company – a fully immersive, banking simulation built around the real financial statements of a fast-growing restaurant chain and designed as an end-to-end lifecycle credit experience.
Our growing list of clients is testament of our effective approach…
