The MBA endorses and participates in the following banking schools. For additional information please contact Amy Davis at adavis@msbankers.com.
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The Southeastern School of Consumer Lending
March 23-26
Sponsored by the Tennessee Bankers Association in cooperation with the Georgia Bankers Association, Lousiana Bankers Association, and Mississippi Bankers Association
The Southeastern School of Consumer Lending (TSSCL) is an intermediate-level, four-day school focusing on the major issues consumer lending managers face. The curriculum addresses the managerial aspect of consumer lending operations, especially how the bank’s loan portfolio can increase profitability and improve competitive positions. It also emphasizes the development of both administrative and human relations skills to equip the student to manage bank assets and meet customers’ financial needs. The program’s graduates will increase their knowledge of consumer lending as a retail banking function and a source of bank income.
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Sponsored by the Tennessee Bankers Association in cooperation with the Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi Bankers Association.
To grow your commercial loan portfolio consistent with today’s business environment, you need specialized education that goes beyond the basics of lending. Enhance your capacity to underwrite profitable loans and manage aggressive portfolios—all while prudently monitoring risk— by attending TBA’s The Southeastern School of Commercial Lending. The first-year curriculum addresses topics such as how businesses operate and the ways their financing needs arise, meeting the multiple financial needs of customers through effective relationship banking, and understanding the role of a company’s management. The second-year curriculum includes discussion on advanced cash flow and loan structure, commercial real estate lending, managing liquidity and capital planning, sales and relationship management, and new approaches to predicting portfolio credit performance and managing portfolio credit risk. The school’s curriculum will benefit commercial lenders, relationship managers, portfolio managers, senior credit managers, and others who work on growing the bank’s loan portfolio profitably and better managing portfolio credit risk. Click here to register online or click here to download an application.
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The Southeastern School of Consumer Credit (Nashville, TN)
March 2019
Sponsored by the Tennessee Bankers Association in cooperation with the Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi Bankers Association.
The Southeastern School of Consumer Credit is an intensive, one-week program featuring over 50 hours of classroom instruction in 21 modules that provide specialized but well-rounded training in consumer banking. Recommendations for participation include at least one year’s experience in consumer credit or five years of general banking experience in addition to certain prerequisites. Participants are housed at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel.
The Mississippi School of Banking (Oxford, MS)
August 2-8, 2020
Established in 1970 by the Mississippi Bankers Association, The Mississippi School of Banking provides the practicing banker with an integrated and complete set of usable courses covering all aspects of banking, as well as overall bank management. The School fosters academic and social interactions with fellow bankers conducive to joint bank problemsolving at the School and later in the workplace. The curriculum is designed as a stepping stone to graduate banking schools. For more information, click here.
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Graduate School of Banking at LSU (Baton Rouge, LA)
May 25-June 5, 2020
Over 16,000 executives have successfully completed the program which is held each spring on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. The School’s purpose is to fill the need for graduate level study by bank officers and others meeting admission requirements leading toward a broader knowledge and understanding of major banking functions. Completion of the program has become a requisite to professional advancement in many banks. Executives at multi-billion dollar financial institutions as well as community banks find that the School’s curriculum addresses their educational needs. For more information, visit gsblsu.org.
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Sponsored by the Tennessee Bankers Association in cooperation with the Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi Bankers Association.
This intensive, one-week school concentrates on all aspects of commercial lending. Students receive over 50 hours of classroom instruction, discussion, and case study. Recommendations for attendance include at least one year of commercial lending experience r five years of general banking experience in addition to certain prerequisites. Students are housed at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel.
