Certified Investment Banker BANKING AND INSURANCE COURSES IN INDIA

Certified Investment Banker

The Certified Investment Banker Program offered by SCIB is specifically designed and developed for the benefit of postgraduate students and professionals/working executives engaged or interested in the area of investment banking and corporate finance. The impact of the reforms process was most pronounced on the investment banking industry. The entry of foreign investment banks like Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Jardine Flemming, etc. has brought about the much needed professionalization in this crucial sector. The abolition of controls enabled the investment bankers to offer customized financial engineering solutions suited to their clients' requirements. Apart from tapping domestic markets, corporates are increasingly accessing the global markets. This has widened the business avenues of the investment bankers by providing newer services like loan syndication, advisory services and managing mandates for offerings of American Depository Receipts (ADRs), Global Deository Receipts (GDRs), etc. Placement of shares/bonds with Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) has also emerged as a lucrative business opportunity.

Objectives

The Certified Investment Banker program has the following objectives :

• To develop a new body of knowledge and make it available for those seeking challenging careers in the new era of liberalization and globalization;
• To introduce participants to the financial system and capital markets both in India and abroad;
• To impart a strong conceptual foundation in investment banking;
• To give adequate exposure to emerging areas like securitization, financial engineering, infrastructure financing, etc;
• To prepare individuals capable of providing leadership to investment banking organizations operating in globalized environment.

The Body of Knowledge

SCIB visualizes the body of knowledge of the Certified Investment Banker Program as covering three interrelated areas:

• The Core body of knowledge : Specialized fields and skills which are essential to business and its orderly functioning.
• The evolving concepts, techniques and strategies : Debated and tested by researchers and practitioners but not yet understood well enough to be included in the core areas.
• The frontiers : The newest ideas, speculative and often controversial, but offering the promise of practical insights into the process of analysis, and decision-making.

Ideas enter the realm of knowledge at the frontiers and gradually as they are tested and refined, move towards the core body of knowledge.

For Whom

Keeping in mind the avenues open to candidates who take up the CIB Program, this course would be useful for:

• Finance and Accounting Professionals like CFAs, CAs, CWAs, CSs, MBAs who seek careers in investment banking.
• Professionals employed in the merchant banking departments of banks and financial institutions.
• Professionals working in the corporate finance/treasury departments of corporates/banks.
• Entrepreneurs and managers engaged in financial services and securities markets.
• Candidates pursuing professional courses like CFA, CA, CWA, CS, CAIIB, TFM, etc.
• Candidates pursuing full-time postgraduate programs in commerce, economics, mathematics, statistics and management.
• Other individuals associated with financial markets.