Frankfurt School of Finance and Management launches in Colombo

The Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, recognised as one of the world’s leading business schools, will expand its footprint into Asia by providing the best of German excellence in the form of academic and executive education in Sri Lanka.

The school’s product portfolio comprises Bachelors, Masters and PhD programs, executive education programs, research projects and bank consultancy services as well as education management services. Every year thousands of students and course participants from all over the world register for the degree programs or attend the executive education and e-learning programs. World renowned banks and corporates around the globe trust the Frankfurt School’s expertise in professionally designing custom programs on leadership and management as well as banking and finance topics, thus giving our graduates excellent career prospects.

The Frankfurt School is accredited by AACSB International and EQUIS and is ranked in the top 10 by human resource professionals and top 5 in research for all business schools and universities in Germany and the Masters of Finance program was ranked 20 globally in the Financial Times in 2016

The Business School already has a presence in Sri Lanka by being the architects of the ACI study program which is a recommended study program for Sri Lankan bank personal and with other industry sectors such as Leasing, Micro and Development Finance.

The school’s flagship Pre Experience Masters of Finance which is ranked 20 globally in the Financial Times in 2016 will be introduced to the market shortly.

The first of its kind the executive program on Corporate Treasury from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management will be conducted as a two-day workshop on 28 and 29 November.

The objective of the workshop is to equip participants with the best up-to-date practices that can be used to efficiently operate a treasury department. The workshop will consist of numerous case studies and discussions on current trends.

The school is proud of its extensive and diverse national and international network, which is built on a huge alumni community with hundreds of thousands of graduates and thousands of practitioners and experts teaching for the faculty. In addition, their excellent relations with clients in the banking and corporate sector, their trusted and long-term collaborations with central banks, NGOs and government authorities all over the world as well as their diverse partner universities expand our network even further. This network helps them to materialise business best practices for the benefit of their students and course participants. Students take part in a variety of activities organised by the school to keep the network going.

Their clients cover a wide range of sectors from banking and finance, health, retail, manufacturing and construction: ACI –The Finance Market Association, ONCG India, Asian Development Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Allianz, SAP, BMW, SEB, Commerzbank, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, Deutsche Bundesbank, Union Investments, European Investment Bank, World Bank, IFC, Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. Oman College of Banking & Financial Studies, Krankenhaus Nordwest Frankfurt, China Construction Bank, Raffles Hospital und Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Singapore, Pioneer Investment, and many more.

The eminent panel of professors, lecturers and consultants advance and disseminate international business best practices in finance and management through research, degree and training programs as well as advisory services. A large proportion of the lecturers are practitioners in banks and corporates who transfer a huge quotient of relevant experience from the practical realm. 

The Frankfurt School of Finance and Management was founded in 1957 by the German banking industry as a bank training institute. Since then, it has developed into one of Europe’s leading business schools. 

Based in Continental Europe’s financial centre of Frankfurt, the Frankfurt School lays claim to Germany’s largest finance faculty where educational and consulting activities are based on world class research, both at the policy and the academic level. 

Await an exciting program calendar for 2017 for both academic and executive education, covering a broad spectrum of areas in banking and finance, healthcare, strategy execution and innovation, German Excellence (Mittlestand), leadership and much more.