The International Retail Banking Academy, a division of the Lafferty Group, is dedicated to the formulation and communication of best practice in the retail banking industry and is pleased to present a workshop to be held in London
Rebuilding Retail Banking Profitability
The workshop will take a dynamic, interactive and practical approach that will equip participants with the knowledge, tools and techniques necessary for retail banking success in the context of the highest ethical standards.

WORKSHOP: Rebuilding Retail Banking Profitability
- Identifying profitable product lines
- Building a profitable retail banking product mix
- Structuring a retail banking balance sheet for performance and flexibility
- Strategies for short-and long-term success
- Identifying and differentiating "core" deposits
- Funding strategies in volatile and stable times
- Effective deposit mix strategies
- Product strategy in consumer lending
- Devising strategies to rationalise consumer banking fees
- Communicating value (versus price) to the customer
Dates/City:
| London | | 05-06 October 2010 |
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BOOK BEFORE 31 AUGUST AND SAVE €500/$700

Dates/City:
Workshop Leader - Pete Soraparu
| Peter A. Soraparu is Executive Vice President and head of the Retail Banking and Commercial Banking Divisions at American Trust & Savings Bank in Dubuque, Iowa. He is responsible for developing the bank’s retail and relationship banking strategies and for its mortgage lending, consumer lending, Dubuque commercial lending and brokerage services departments.
He is a member of the bank’s Asset Liability Committee and of its Managing Committee. Prior to joining American Trust in August, 2007, Soraparu was |
the founder and president of PAES Enterprises Ltd., directing several domestic and international retail banking, payments and training consulting engagements.
He has spoken on a wide range of retail banking issues at numerous global events. He is also a past retail banking executive at Bank Administration Institute (BAI), Glenview State Bank and The First National Bank of Chicago.

More about the International Academy of Retail Banking Acadamy
| | Mission Statement The IARB will efficiently deliver vital industry knowledge to global retail banking executives, providing and sustaining differentiated content and results that participants can apply to optimise their organisations’ performance. Lafferty Group and IARB believe that retail banking should be a profession - like accounting, the law and medicine – and are dedicated to take a lead in bringing this about through retail banking educational initiatives across the globe. | |
The International Academy of Retail Banking (IARB) is dedicated to synthesizing and delivering continually updated knowledge to global retail banking executives. It principally derives its currency from its association with Lafferty Group and an extended network of content matter experts around the world, each of whom has extensive experience as a practitioner in major retail banking markets and forward-thinking organisations. No other organisation in the world can deliver the breadth and depth of knowledge that the IARB can – it combines a global appreciation, manipulation and comprehension of retail banking trends with the granularity of specific market applications.

To find out more about the IARB and/or the workshop, please contact:
London: Ben Cavelaert, T: +44 (0)7725 240 983, E: ben.cavelaert@lafferty.com