International Training Center for Bankers

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| industry = Financial services education

| founded = {{Start date and age|1988}}

| founder = French Banking Training Center (CFPB) and 8 Hungarian banks

| hq_location_city = Budapest

| hq_location_country = Hungary

| area_served = Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and former USSR countries

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| products = Diploma programs, educational program, financial education, professional training for finance industry

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| website = {{URL|https://www.bankarkepzo.hu/}}

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International Training Center for Bankers (ITCB) ({{langx|hu|Bankárképző}}) is a Budapest-based banking academy and consultancy. It provides diploma programs, training, certification and consultancy for the finance industry in central and eastern Europe.

History

ITCB was founded in 1988 by [http://www.cfpb.fr/ Centre de Formation de la Profession Bancaire], the French banking academy and the post-Socialist commercial banks in Hungary to promote the know-how transfer of economics, finance and commercial banking in the first years of Hungary’s successful economic transition to a market economy. After the restructuring and early privatization, ITCB has remained Hungary’s market-leader banking consulting, training and research company. As Hungary was a regional champion in liberalizing, privatizing and opening her banking and financial markets, ITCB's trainers and consultants have played important roles in the dissemination of this know-how in Central Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet republics.

In 2006, the International Training Centre for Bankers became part of the Certification & Accreditation System for Financial Services Sector Education and Training which is a transnational project, started in October 2006, being developed in the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme, which is supported by the European Banking Federation and co-ordinated by the European Banking and Financial Services Training Association.

See also