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Digital Finance for Banking Executives: an Overview
- 4 CPD Units
- 4 Hours
- Live Online
- 19 November 2025
- 09:30 – 13:30 UK Time
- Online
£474.00
This training programme equips participants with the knowledge and skills to navigate the fast-changing digital finance landscape, with a focus on its application within commercial banks and financial institutions. Participants will gain a solid understanding of the fundamental concepts, strategic considerations, and operational frameworks necessary for successful implementation.
The course explores the significance of digital finance, the partnerships required, and the challenges and opportunities that arise in this sector. It also examines open banking and embedded finance, supported by global case studies, to provide practical insights into the evolving ecosystem. Emphasis is placed on customer-centric innovation and best practices, combining conceptual learning with real-world applications to prepare participants to identify opportunities, manage risks, and align strategies with institutional objectives.
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of digital finance and its significance for financial institutions.
- Analyse the strategic considerations for developing and implementing digital finance solutions.
- Identify and evaluate potential partnerships to support digital finance initiatives.
- Assess the challenges and opportunities in the digital finance sector.
- Apply best practices for achieving customer-centric innovation in digital finance.
- Explain the roles of open banking and embedded finance in shaping the future of financial services.
- Draw lessons from global case studies of successful digital finance implementations.
- Recognise the importance of regulatory compliance and relevant standards, including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 20022, DORA, MiCA, and PSD2/PSD3, in digital finance operations.
- Integrate digital finance strategies into their institution’s overall transformation roadmap.
The programme uses an immersive, executive-level approach.
This program offers an overview of digital finance, from its foundational concepts and the design of digitally native products to the key technologies driving innovation, including Open Banking, embedded finance, blockchain, AI, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). It critically examines the frameworks essential for successful implementation, covering RegTech for modern compliance, robust cybersecurity and data privacy protocols, and adherence to international standards like ISO 20022, PSD2/PSD3, and MiCA. The curriculum culminates in developing actionable institutional transformation strategies, focusing on creating digital roadmaps, fostering fintech collaborations, and building modern payment infrastructures to integrate a cohesive digital finance strategy into an organization’s broader objectives.
Who is Elias Tayeh?
Elias M. Tayeh is a seasoned digital finance strategist with over two decades of C-level leadership experience, guiding institutions across the MENA region, West Africa, and beyond, through large-scale transformation initiatives. His career highlights include leading complex financial technology projects, advising on national payment systems, and delivering strategic consultancy that drives institutional growth, operational efficiency, market expansion, enhanced consumer protection, and greater access to finance for SMEs and women-led businesses.
Elias has developed and delivered extensive training and capacity-building programs covering the IT aspects of payments digitalization, the legal, economic, and business frameworks of payments modernization, and other strategic, operational, and compliance-focused areas. These include digital finance, open banking regulations and implementation, digital payments and fraud prevention, AI readiness and adoption in banking, blockchain and crypto asset frameworks, and sandbox-based simulations for policy testing and innovation. He has designed specialized modules on leadership for digital finance executives, Islamic fintech, decentralized finance, RegTech solutions, and IT governance. Institutions that have benefited from his programs include the Institute of Banking Studies (Jordan), the Centre de Formation Bancaire de Tunisie (CBF Tunisia), Alex Bank (Egypt), and the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI).
He is currently collaborating with the Union of Arab Banks (UAB) through its academy to deliver specialized programs on open banking, open finance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and regulatory technology, including hands-on sandbox-based simulations and real-time policy testing exercises. His deliverables also include advanced RegTech and SupTech frameworks, enabling regulators and financial institutions to build secure, interoperable, and future-ready ecosystems aligned with international standards while addressing local market needs.
Known for combining strategic insight with technical depth, Elias bridges policy, technology, and market realities to deliver practical solutions that endure. His work often involves aligning diverse stakeholders—from regulators to fintech innovators—to ensure reforms are not only compliant but also commercially viable. Looking ahead, his consultancy work in digital transformation will extend to emerging domains such as green finance, integrating sustainability into the evolving digital finance landscape.
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