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Training Matters!

Regional Campuses

Peshawar
NIBAF Peshawar Chapter commenced its operations on November 1, 2018 with
an aim to mark its presence in the banking and financial industry of KP especial-
ly and overall training landscape of KP generally. Having conducted more than
20 training sessions during its first year ending June 2019, NIBAF Peshawar
designed and conducted 24 corporate training programs in total (22 classroom
based and 2 online) during the year 2019-2020, registering 1050 Man Train-
ing Days, ensuring an average of 27.5 participants per training session before
COVID-19 disrupted normal operations. These also included 8 sessions con-
ducted off-campus and mostly at other cities of KP such as Mardan, Swat and
Abbottabad, involving top-notch trainers from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and
Peshawar.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the new normal of precautions and social
distancing, NIBAF Peshawar has transformed itself to offer Online sessions of
different training programs for banks across the country in order to make produc-
tive use of the time available in this period of social and economic disruption.

Quetta
The new Quetta Campus started its operations within the vicinity of the SBP BSC
-Quetta building in December-2018 and since then has been working towards pro-
fessional development of local banking community and industry as an academic
arm of SBP. Initially, the core focus of operations was the capacity building as
per the strategic priorities set forth in SBP Vision2020. Under this Vision vari-
ous events were organized in Quetta that included awareness sessions on Islamic
Finance for Academia, Awareness session for SMEs on SBPs’ concessional lend-
ing/risk coverage schemes, discussion/informative sessions for Agri stakeholders
etc. Specific capacity building sessions were also organized for freshly employed
Agriculture Credit Officers/Mobile Credit Officers by banks and for credit side
professionals of local banks on Housing Finance, Agriculture Value Chain Fi-
nancing and Islamic Banking Operations. In the later phase, focus also shifted to-
wards promoting regulatory compliance under which various iterations on AML/

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