SWIFT for Banking Professionals Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at cloud administrators, cloud architects, technology heads, and financial analysts who wish to record, manage, monitor, and process financial assets of an organization in the cloud.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use FinOps practices in an organization to forecast costs, optimize processes, and perform financial management operations in the cloud.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Open Bank Project API to develop and test decentralized applications that can be integrated easily with digital banking systems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary development environment to start developing applications with OBP API.
• Understand the Open Bank Project architecture, technology, and concepts.
• Learn how to use and customize OBP API to develop and build applications for banking.
• Explore the features, tools, APIs, and sandboxes in OBP.
• Implement security and integrations in OBP API connectors and adapters.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at accountants and bookkeepers who wish to use Xero for bookkeeping.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Get a real-time view of cashflow.
• Link bank accounts to Xero for bank reconciliation.
• Prepare and check VAT (Value Added Tax) returns in Xero.
• Create reports for sharing amongst team members.

In this instructor-led, live training in Taiwan, participants will learn how to use GnuCash to manage business accounting and finance projects and tasks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Manage financial and accounting tasks including invoicing, billing, payments, VAT, reporting, etc.
• Track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses.
• Track multiple accounts in a multiple-department business.
• Use GnuCash to manage multi-currency business accounts.

The Introduction to Fixed Income training course is an overview of the fixed income securities designed for anyone seeking a solid understanding of fixed income securities and financial markets.

Why should you attend?

We live and work in an increasingly global market which offers opportunities at every turn which we need to take. However, with those opportunities come increased competition and most of the complexities remain in place. Knowing the best ways to find and select the most suitable and competitive price for your product or services is crucial to the success and growth of any business. The knowledge, techniques and strategies that you gain during our training will enable you to increase profitability and effectiveness of your business.

Turning theory into practice:

The purpose behind this 1-day training course is to simplify and explain the successful strategies of pricing. You’ll leave our event more confident and more positive to continue and expand your business. We will provide you with the strategies and the best practice examples to improve and expand your knowledge about pricing and to make your plans and targets come true.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for sales managers, marketing managers, product managers, account managers, pricing analysts & managing directors. This course is also vital for executives who are new to pricing or who have limited experience of the subject.

This instructor-led, live training in Taiwan (online or onsite) is aimed at application consultants and business process owners who wish to learn how to configure business processes for SAP S/4 HANA financials module.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basic customizing settings in the main components of Financial Accounting with SAP S/4HANA.
• Configure the master data settings (G/L accounts, customer and vendor accounts) of FA with SAP S/4HANA.
• Configure document control, posting control, and financial document clearing settings of FA with SAP S/4HANA.

Introduction to Structured Products

The purpose of the course is to provide delegates with an introduction to the Structured Products used in investment banking. On completion of the course all delegates will have a working knowledge of the subject and will be able answer

1. What are structured products?
2. Why issue them?
3. How do issuers and investors benefit?
4. How do you structure and price a range of derivative products?
5. What are the risks and costs of producing structured financial products?
6. What are embedded derivatives?
7. What are exotic options?
8. What are the pricing and hedging considerations?

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the key features of financial markets and how trading takes place in these markets. We start with an overview of financial markets and terminologies, trading lingo, and conventions used to describe their activites. Then we look at the why and how of investing in various types of financial instruments. Some of the specific topics include trading strategies, risk management and real-world case studies to examine the persons, institutions and strategies behind the investments in the financial markets.

Audience

• Business managers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, and hands-on exercises

This introductory course will provide participants with a first class and detailed working knowledge of the key financial markets, their purpose, function, main activities and their regulation. It is intended to be part refresher, part educational and part challenging so that all delegates will derive the maximum benefit from it. Feedback and discussion will be actively encouraged throughout the sessions which are intended to be interactive not just reactive and factual.

The primary function is to ensure that by completion, all course delegates will be much better equipped to deal with clients and their ongoing needs and to put into context the services and markets in which they are trading and participating.

Audience

All Senior Management who need a working knowledge of AML / CTF and their prevention – and an awareness of the other relevant and current Financial Crime issues;

Format of the course

A combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Case Studies
• Examples

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Explain how AML and CTF might be prevented
• Understand the major facets of AML and CTF as they apply to their companies and the national and international efforts being made to combat them
• Define the ways in which a company and its staff should protect themselves against the risks of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
• Detail how a company might become a target for Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: and explain which “red flags” might help them to identify, prevent and report any (suspicious or actual) criminal activity
• Understand some of the other “hot spots” in Financial Crime

The Common Reporting Standard (CRS) is an OECD standard which calls on international jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial institutions and automatically exchange that information with other jurisdictions on an annual basis. The Standard requires all reports to be sent electronically in a format known as CRS XML.

To resolve errors related to file preparation and incomplete or inaccurate record information, the CRS Status Message XML Schema was created to check for file and record errors in the CRS XML Schema file.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn:

• the basic structure of the CRS XML Schema and CRS Status Message XML Schema.
• steps for processing these files.
• steps for converting Excel files to XML schema files.
• steps for filing with their respective jurisdiction.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at managers who wish to identify and minimize the risk of fraud faced by eCommerce merchants.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how eCommerce fraud occurs.
• Analyze vulnerabilities in their company's eCommerce platform and processes.
• Assess a company's 'readiness' for adopting new anti-fraud measures
• Communicate and incorporate appropriate anti-fraud policies.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.