Emerging TechnologiesBlockchain for Financial and Banking Professionals
Distributed ledger technology touches banking at the points where reconciliation, settlement and correspondent relationships are slowest and most expensive. This course examines those points specifically. Delegates work through payment and settlement use cases, cross border transfer and the correspondent banking problem, trade finance instruments on a shared ledger, tokenised assets and custody, and the treatment of digital assets on a bank's balance sheet. The regulatory material covers the direction of travel for central bank digital currencies and the supervisory expectations now emerging across African markets. Realistic assessment throughout: several of these use cases have been piloted for years without reaching production, and the course is direct about why.
Course objectives
- Assess distributed ledger use cases in payments, settlement and reconciliation
- Explain the correspondent banking problem and where a shared ledger changes it
- Evaluate trade finance and tokenised asset applications realistically
- Describe custody, key management and the operational risk they carry
- Summarise the direction of central bank digital currency initiatives
- Identify the supervisory and accounting treatment of digital assets
- Distinguish pilots that reached production from those that did not, and why
Who should attend
- Banking operations, payments and settlement professionals
- Treasury and correspondent banking staff
- Risk, compliance and internal audit professionals in financial services
- Product and innovation teams in banks
- Regulators and supervisors
Course outline
- 01Where banking is slow and expensive, and why distributed ledgers were proposed
- 02Payments, settlement finality and the reconciliation problem
- 03Cross border transfer and correspondent banking
- 04Trade finance instruments on a shared ledger
- 05Tokenised assets, custody and key management risk
- 06Central bank digital currencies and the current state of play
- 07Accounting, prudential and supervisory treatment of digital assets
- 08Case review: pilots that scaled and pilots that quietly stopped
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 to 23 October 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 1 to 5 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 6 to 10 November 2026 | Port Louis, Mauritius | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 27 November to 1 December 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |
| 29 November to 3 December 2026 | London, United Kingdom | Classroom | R11,995 per delegate | Register Now |