Proceeding from the Institute's policy to qualify efficient banking cadres able to explore the future outlook and get use of the available opportunities in order to upgrade the performance of the banking and financial sector . The Institute has set up during 2008 a comprehensive training plan to fulfil the increasing ambitions and aspirations of the financial and banking staff in accordance with the actual needs of the financial and banking activities.

The   Institute    continued    its    persistent efforts in order to identify the banks and financial institutions training needs. On the other hand, the Institutes management has made a review of agreements and memorandums of understanding signed with many regional and international banking institutes and financial institutions  in order to incorporate the experiences of these institutes and institutions into seminars and joint workshops held by the Institute of Banking Studies for the Jordanian banking cadres.

The total number of training activities held during 2008 reached (299) courses, seminars and programs and were attended by (5143) trainees from local and regional banks and financial institutions .

These remarkable achievements were mainly due to the Institutes keen desire to develop the abilities of the banking and financial staff and to enhance their innovative skills and talents in order to adapt to the emerging new banking and financial   developments on the international arena. These achievements were also due to the Institutes eagerness to introduce new techniques to the Jordanian banking industry. The activities of the Institute during this year were not limited only to developing the techniques of the banking and financial services in the Kingdom , but also were directed to the neighbouring Arab countries within the Institutes persistent efforts to create trained Arab banking cadres who will possess the necessary skills to serve their institutions and raise the standard of the banking and financial sector .

The training activities the Institute held   may divided to local and abroad training courses, seminars and specialized programs.