The convening of the specialized professional diploma programs series came as a response to meet the needs of the financial and banking employees in the Kingdom, in order to create trained cadres able to utilize the required skills efficiently and able to cope with the international financial and banking developments, through creating a new financial and banking generation characterized by specialization in financial and banking operations, and to spread the culture of specialization among the financial and banking cadres and make room for innovation and creativity .

And due to the distinguished success and the increasing demand for these programs and based on the Institute's permanent concern to maintain its successful training programs, the management of the Institute during this year formed specialized committees to update and develop the contents of each of the specialized professional diploma programs in financial analysis, bank credit, investment portfolios management and banking leadership.

Where these committees identified new structures for those programs characterized by their specialized topics, also , they focused in general on the level and quality of the inputs and outputs of those programs through setting the Bachelor's Degree or/and a minimum number of years of practical experience in the areas related to the topics of each program as prerequisites.

Additionally, the comprehensive exam used to be at the end of each program has been replaced by periodic examinations at the end of each main training unit of each program in response to the desire of a large number of banks and financial institutions.

As a result, a high quality programs has been emerged which level and contents are in accordance with the internationally accredited programs in such areas.

Moreover, a new diploma program in human resources management has been prepared during this year to be launched soon, since such subjects importance for the banks and financial institutions.

This new program aims at qualifying employees working in the human resources and personnel departments and those exposed to assume higher managerial and leadership posts in such departments to obtain the Specialized Professional Diploma in Human Resources Management.

This program addresses several topics focusing on deepening participants  understanding  to the importance of modern human resources management in attracting and developing human resources able to achieve the goals of the organization and to develop it to achieve excellence through understanding the concepts, practices and system of modern human resources, and the ways of formulating of an integrated system of human resources in the institutions of the participants.

However, eight specialized professional diplomas were carried out during 2008 for (129) trainees at the Institute's premises in Amman, and branches in Irbid and Aqaba. Five of these programs on financial analysis, bank credit, investment portfolios management and banking leadership were held in Amman for (90) trainees from various Jordanian banking and financial institutions. Also, the specialized professional diploma programs in financial analysis and bank credit were carried out in Aqaba for (27) trainees from the banking and financial institutions located in the southern part of Jordan. In addition, the diploma program in bank credit was carried out in Irbid for (12) trainees from the  banking and financial institutions located in the Northern part of Jordan.

The participants who successfully passed the required exams for each of the Specialized Professional Diploma Programs were granted each program certificate.

Accordingly, the number of the Specialized Professional Diploma Programs held since 2003 till the end of this year totalled (57) programs attended by (1003) participants representing various Jordanian banks and financial institutions.

More details about each program of this series as follows:-

1- Specialized Professional Diploma Program in Financial Analysis

2- Specialized Professional Diploma Program in Bank Credit

3- Specialized Professional Diploma Program   in  Investment Portfolios Management

4- Specialized  Professional  Diploma Program in Banking Leadership

5- Specialized Professional Diploma Program in Human Resources Management

Specialized Professional Diploma Programs Conducted During the Period 2003-2008