Training

SHAPE™ and its team members have carried out training seminars for leading international training companies. We enjoy strategic relationships with key London based training leaders in financial services, and the leading specialist training firm based in Kuala Lumpur focused on Islamic financial services.

SHAPE™ Financial Corporation’s President and CEO, Abdulkader Thomas, has written or co-authored several key English language books on Islamic finance, often in partnership with leading industry professionals. Recent and forthcoming books include,
Islamic Bonds; Structuring Islamic Finance Transactions; Islamic Capital Markets and Sukuk; and Islamic Treasury and Derivatives. SHAPE™ team members are extensively involved in a variety of knowledge publication projects for clients.

SHAPE™ offers assessment based training and is uniquely qualified to carry out training seminars on:

• Introduction to Islamic Finance
– One Day Course
• Introduction to Islamic Banking Principles and Trade Finance
– One or two day courses
• Islamic Capital Markets including Derivatives
– One, two or three day courses
• Islamic Treasury Learning & Simulation
Two, three or four day learning program applying simulation in the treasury and ALM context
• Islamic Retail Banking
– One, two or three day courses
• Islamic Fund Structuring
– One, two or three day courses
• Islamic Real Estate Funds & Securities
– One Day Course
• Principles of Islamic Asset Management
– One or two day courses
• Intermediate Principles and Operations of Islamic Banking
– Four days
• Principles of Islamic Product Development and Financial Engineering
– Four days

In response to market demand, SHAPE™, in conjunction with
REDmoney now offers a comprehensive, assessment based three level certification program to develop professionals with a deep and on-going knowledge of Islamic finance. This entails the launch in 2009 of the Certified Islamic Financial Analyst Program CIFA®, and its e-learning equivalent. The elements of the program are meant to assure that team members are effective in their work and able to apply proper principles of Islamic finance as well as to engineer or manage financial processes and client relationships in a manner that enhances the value of the professional, of the professional’s organization to the client, and improves the market.

For more information regarding training or online training, please feel free to
contact us.
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