New Delhi, August 31, 2016: BANKEDGE, a leading National Talent Development Corporation and India’s leading Banking training academy launched its operations in Chennai with state-of-the-art education centres at T. Nagar. BANKEDGE entered into Chennai to offer a vast range of industry-aligned, employability enhancing programs, to create a pool of skilled Banking professionals in the Tamilnadu State. The announcement of launch of the centres was done at T. Nagar Centre at Chennai by Mr. Santosh Joshi, C.E.O of BANKEDGE Academy. Also present were Mrs. Sonali Sawant – Head of Corporate Alliances and Placements, Mr. Abhishek Gowda – Head of South India Operations, Mr. Venkatkrishna – Head of the Content Development, Chairman, Mr. Kamlesh Kamat – GM Finance and Admin , Mr. Kalpesh Shirwadkar – Manager E-Learning Course at BankEdge.
BANKEDGE will offer cutting edge career programs which are completely aligned with the Industry requirements. BANKEDGE programs are uniquely designed to equip learners with skills that make them productive from Day 1. The company will launch a vast portfolio of career programs which includes the flagship program, PROBE – Professional Banking Executive Program and programs in other Banking domains like Branch Sales Officer, Trade Finance and Forex, Consumer Lending and Banking Aptitude Test Preparations. BANKEDGE would also offer professional skills programs to develop industry-ready professionals.
The PROBE program based on all new digital banking centric curriculum can be pursued anywhere anytime, by leveraging the unique cloud learning methodology. This allows student to learn not only at an BANKEDGE centre but also through BANKEDGE’s first Cloud Campus, that leverages the power of Information Technology in education. The pioneering BANKEDGE Online Campus empowers student to learn on his own terms, at his own pace, wherever and whenever he wants it. Students enjoy higher mobility as they can easily access educational services using a Netbook or a Mobile device that connects them to BANKEDGE’s Online Campus network. These services will be managed by BANKEDGE centrally, using the power of Digital Computing.
Speaking on the significant development, Mr. Santosh Joshi, Chief Executive Officer, BANKEDGE said,“BANKEDGE is committed towards building a pool of skilled Banking professionals for the rapidly growing BFSI industry across the globe. We are confident that our industry-aligned, career focused programs will provide the latest and best technology training to the students in order to create a pool of trained manpower on emerging technologies particularly for the digital space, in Banking.”
The BFSI sector in Bangladesh is witnessing rapid growth in the last few years. The internet connectivity has been enhanced vastly throughout the country and successive governments have made Banking as a focus area, and have extended favorable policies for the growth of the sector. With global outsourcing industry witnessing an upward trend, and sourcing enterprises looking at lower costs for improved service delivery, the Indian BFSI industry has been able to take advantage of its vast resource pool and government support to make its presence felt in Global economic market.
With the potential to become the fifth largest banking industry in the world by 2020 and third largest by 2025 according to KPMG-CII report, India’s banking and financial sector is expanding rapidly. The Indian Banking industry is currently worth Rs. 81 trillion (US $ 1.31 trillion) and banks are now utilizing the latest technologies like internet and mobile devices to carry out transactions and communicate with the masses.
To develop Tamilnadu into a Banking hub, BANKEDGE will work towards establishing a Statewide Network of Learning centres in the coming years to address requirements of both individuals and industry. BANKEDGE will also collaborate with leading Banks for providing Industry oriented training. BANKEDGE’s state-of-art curriculum will provide a unique learning experience to the students and in turn will create trained manpower for Banking industry whose productivity is from the day 1 – hour 1.
Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)
