MICROFINANCE EVENT: Micro Banking Summer Academy of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management Presents Commercial Micro Banking, July 12-17, 2009, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Micro Banking Summer Academy of Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
 
Commercial Micro Banking
 
July 5-10, 2009
 
DB Training Center, Bad Homburg, Germany

This six day seminar will focus on measuring MFI performance, identifying the appropriate risk management systems, gaining access to additional funding sources, and preparing MFIs for future challenges.  The target audience consists of managers working for commercial banks engaged in microfinance, transformed MFIs, investment funds or other commercial organisations active in microfinance.
 
The facilitators for the seminar will be:
 
Joachim Bald – Mr. Bald  is a highly accomplished consultant and trainer and serves on a large portfolio of short-term assignments for the International Advisory Services at Frankfurt School.  Liquidity, interest rate risk, and foreign exchange rate risk are his key areas of expertise. Working with MFIs in Uganda, South Africa and Kazakhstan, Joachim has had great success in applying bank treasury concepts to the microfinance environment. Joachim also has extensive experience with microfinance funds and apex structures from his role as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Rural Housing Loan Fund in South Africa, his involvement with the JAIDA fund in Morocco and as a financial modeling advisor to the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE).  His professional history also includes international banking with Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt, Oregon State University in Corvallis where he served as international faculty, Deutsche Börse systems, the IT subsidiary of the German Stock Exchange and Eurex, the international derivatives market.   He has also served Vice President and Managing Director of the US subsidiary of the exchange in Chicago; being responsible for operating the electronic futures and options trading platform for the Chicago Board of Trade. Today, he continues as an occasional management consultant for the German Stock Exchange in Chicago and Frankfurt.  Mr. Bald holds a German MBA, a doctorate in Economics and is also a US Certified Management Accountant.  His publications include a dissertation and articles on the Russian economic transformation process, Treasury Management and Liquidity Management manuals developed for the Frankfurt School as well as a forthcoming study on core deposit supply behavior in low-income banking for CGAP.

Christian Rühmer – Mr. Rühmer has been a part of the Micro Banking Summer Academy faculty since its 2000 inception.  He is currently a Managing Director at WestLB, a European commercial bank. He is the head of the Investment Management Unit/Credit Investments -New York which oversees an Investment Portfolio of EUR 20 billion. Before joining WestLB, Mr. Rühmer worked for 14 years at Deutsche Bank in various locations, ending as a Director of the Loan Exposure Management Group in New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Financial Risk Manager (FRM). He has been involved in microfinance since 2000 and has his own consulting company, Perfect Point Partners srl.(PPP) in Bolivia.  His areas of specialty are Efficiency Management and Risk Management. 

The cost of the session is EUR 3000.  Fees include all training materials, full board accommodation, social program, and transportation to and from the airport.  The number of participants is limited to 30 and applicants will be selected in an effort to create a class of participants with complementary experiences and backgrounds.  April 24, 2009 is the last day to register online.  For additional information about the Commercial Micro Banking seminar, contact Maria Johansson at m.johansson@frankfurt-school.de.

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