Established in November 1977 as the professional and educational body for the banking and the financial services industry in Malaysia, Institut Bank-Bank Malaysia (IBBM) is the leader in providing industry-focused training programmes and certifications. IBBM, established by the banking and financial services industry, is governed by a Council comprising representatives from Bank Negara Malaysia, the Association of Banks in Malaysia, Association of Finance Companies of Malaysia and the Malaysian Investment Banking Association (formerly the Association of Merchant Banks in Malaysia). In a rapidly changing business environment, financial institutions need to be highly robust and adaptable to the increasingly diversified and complex marketplace. The game plan is to maintain one's competitiveness by creating innovative and quick-to-market products, and providing value-added customer services. A key driver to achieving the competitive advantage is to leverage human capital asset. With a presence that dates back more than 29 years, IBBM is unwaveringly committed to assist financial institutions enhance their employees with knowledge and skills to achieve business goals. IBBM, with its intimate knowledge of the industry's learning needs, is positioned to facilitate the transfer of skills-enabling knowledge. Our Roles The fundamental role of IBBM is to be the key enabler of transfer of knowledge and skills. This is realised through multi-pronged approaches: As the industry's leading provider of training, IBBM works closely with the financial institutions to design, develop and conduct Continuing Professional Development programmes. These programmes cover all aspects of domestic and international banking. IBBM conducts more than 1,000 training programmes, benefiting almost 25,000 trainees per year. Another core activity is the provision of industry-focused professional certifications through the Institute's own curriculum and awards, or in collaboration with other educational institutions. IBBM offers competency-based specialist certifications in areas such as credit, internal audit, financial markets, documentary credit, and risk management. The transfer knowledge is also facilitated through dissemination of information on banking and financial services via both print and electronic media, including the Internet. Among the products are study manuals, general banking titles, computer-based courseware, a bimonthly newsletter and a banking journal. IBBM's Information Centres, with their specialist libraries, offer a wide collection of banking-related titles and periodicals. IBBM also plays the role of training adviser to assist financial institutions or finance related organisations in identifying areas for staff professional development, and proposing the relevant training solutions Top   Our Vision To be regionally recognised as a leading learning solutions provider in enhancing the competencies of banking and financial services practitioners in a changing environment. Our Mission To be a professional and effective training adviser and provider in developing practitioners of banking and financial services industry to enable them to function effectively in an evolving financial services environment. Top