Chartered Institute of Bankers wins WCBI hosting right

The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria has won the right to host the 22nd World Conference of Banking Institutes (WCBI) which will take place in 2017. The WCBI, which is a biennial conference for all the banking institutes across the globe, commenced in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1975, as part of activities to commemorate the Centenary celebrations of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

Since then over twenty-one countries including USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, Australia, France, India, Ireland, Bahamas, UAE, Kenya, among others, have hosted the event.

The Institute was unanimously voted as the host for the 22nd World Conference of Banking Institutes in 2017 after a robust presentation to the delegates by Debola Osibogun, president/chairman of council, at the just concluded 21st edition of the WCIB conference in Seoul, South Korea, organised by the Korea Institute of Bankers.

Earlier, the Institute had secured the support of the regional groups such as the European Banking & Financial Services Training Association (EBTN); Asian-Pacific Association of Banking Institutes International Conference (APABI) and Alliance of African Institutes of Bankers (AAIOB) as well as the Central Bank of Nigeria; Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Bankers’ Committee; the Nigerian Embassy in the Republic of South Korea and indeed, the Federal Government Nigeria.

Osibogun noted that this hosting right under- scored the confidence of the banking institutes all over the world in the role and contribution of the Institute in ensuring high quality education and learning services for a safe and sound financial system in Nigeria and its leadership role among the banking institutes in Africa.

“We will also make our best effort in providing a world class arrangement for the conference which already has an all-inclusive Planning and Organising Committee to work for the next two years.

In no distant future, therefore, we will unveil some of the programmes and activities lined up for the conference”, she assured.