
Explore the banking industry basics, including products, functions, and department roles, plus a glimpse into future trends shaping banking today.
Explore how banking functions as a system that enables deposits, withdrawals, investments, and transfers for individuals, corporates, and governments, with banks as licensed institutions that lend and reinvest.
Explore the different types of banks and their functions, from central and commercial banks to industrial, agricultural, real estate, trade, and islamic banks. Learn deposits, loans, and currency exchange.
Define banking and explain how banks accept deposits, enable withdrawals, and lend money across central, commercial, islamic models, while outlining assets versus liabilities and products like loans and cds.
Loans are borrowed capital with the lowest monthly interest, while credit cards and overdrafts charge higher daily interest. apr and daily principal rate determine the costs for each facility.
Explore the bank's front office and back office, including tellers, customer service, sales, operations, treasury, dealing room, risk, compliance, anti-money laundering, and HR, and how they enable transactions.
Review sections three and four, detailing asset versus liability products, loans, credit cards, and overdrafts, and explain monthly and daily interest rates along with front and back office roles.
Explore the main challenges facing banks today, including fintech competition, crowdfunding platforms, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies, and learn why banks aren’t extinct and must adopt ai, cloud banking, and online services.
Hello everyone!
This course (Banking 101 - Introduction to the Banking System) includes comprehensive materials that are helpful in giving you an overall solid banking background to help you in your day-to-day banking transactions and financial decisions.
The course covers beginner and Intermediary level of information about the banking industry from an insiders perspective. You are going to take away different approaches at understanding bank's roles, its various financial solutions (In theory & practice) and other competing financial services providers.
By the end of this course, you will fully understand bank's types and functions, and different jobs inside of a bank along with their responsibilities and location in the bank's internal structure.
You will know how to calculate your Loan's monthly payment, in addition to your Credit Card and Overdraft's interest. Furthermore, you will get to know the difference between them and which is better catered to meet your financial needs.
You will fully understand what does an Interest mean. Also, you will be able to differentiate between Debit and Credit Interest, get oriented with the most common interest types.
We also covered in this course the uplifting current challenges that banks face and their driving forces for banks to go extinct.
See you all in the course ;-)