Kuwait Finance House (KFH) commenced a training program on “Treasury and Risk Management” for 22 employees of KFH Group as part of the training programs KFH designed to elevate employees efficiencies as per the highest standards of banking performance quality, and in an effort to contribute to boost the performance indicators in the bank.

The program encompasses 8 various up to date programs on treasury where 5 of them will be held throughout this year 2015 and the other 3 programs in 2016. The programs tackle important subjects of foreign exchange fundamentals, money markets, bonds, sukuk, accounting regulatory and sharia principles, trading and macroeconomics indicators, risk management and asset-liability management, fundamentals of derivatives and advanced derivatives.

The importance of this integrated program lies in its concentration on the key role of treasury and risk management in balancing the financial positions, managing all bank’s assets and liabilities, studying the markets’ risk and the factors affecting liquidity level in the bank and the currency exchange operations. Also, the treasury assumes a significant role in capital markets, investment funds and sukuk.

KFH is keen on honing skills of its human capital where it spares no efforts in developing them and enhance their capabilities that positively reflect on performance development at KFH at all levels.

It is worth noting that a professional advisor and lecturer in USA and the Middle East is running the program that hosts employees from KFH-Bahrain and KFH-Turkey.