Cecabank Annual Report 2014

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Activity during the year
The school has continued advance
on updating its training offering,
based on its premise of quality,
and expanded its activities to
new customers.
Its range of training centres
on financial specialisation
programmes, while also updating
courses with a strong presence
in the regulatory or standards
training market, where ESCA has
a strong position.
Collaboration agreements
Internationally, with a view to
expanding the school’s activity,
collaboration agreements have
been signed with the Paris and
Brussels Chambers of Commerce,
and the school has also teamed
up with the National police
department to develop
economic crime and financial
investigation programmes.
Classroom-based training
ESCA organised 12 classroom-
based courses in 2014, with over
630 participants. This represents
an increase of 37 percent on the
previous year.
ESCA has also continued running
its long-duration programmes,
such as the Course on Accounting
in Credit Institutions, which is now
in its 19th edition.
On-line training
This year more than 15,000
students were trained, receiving a
total of 325,000 hours of training.
As well as these traditional lines
of action, we have continued our
agreements to provide training
content for institutions to deliver
to their employees on their own
platform. This transfer has been
complemented, where institutions
so require, with student
management, tutoring, issuing of
reports on courses completed, or
providing expert instructors.
In-Company training
In-company training has made
up a significant share of our
programmes, with over 600h of
training delivered through various
training activities.
The programmes run in 2014
included the 3rd edition of the
Expert Programme on Internal
Auditing of credit institutions.
Training for Directors and
Senior management
The guidelines on suitability of
members of the management body
and key function holders of a credit
institution, published by the EBA
on 22 November 2012, and Royal
Decree 256/2013 of 12 April
2013, incorporating the European
Banking Authority’s standards in
legislation on credit institutions,
include, inter alia, a requirement
that the members of the board
of directors, the chief executive,
and similar, are kept up to date,
which entails the need to prepare a
training plan for this purpose.
ESCA ran various training
programmes in 2014 including
general and specific courses
targeting these groups.
Sector certifications
Within the programmes associated
with obtaining the various sector
certifications we have continued
certifying financial sector
professionals on programmes
such as those for Investment
Products Advisors and Financial
Advisors, confirming their market
recognition and acceptance.
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