2025 MBA Banking Schools
For more information about MBA banking schools in 2025, please contact MBA's Education Department.
Sept. 9-11 | Columbia
The Secure Act impacts two main topics: RMDs and death distributions. MBA’s 2025 IRA School will address these relevant changes. In addition, IRAs are one of the most complicated areas of bank personnel responsibility, and it is not possible to learn and understand everything. Continual education is necessary to ensure confidence. Working with IRAs is a process and must start with a strong foundation. This school can provide this foundation through a comprehensive curriculum.
SCHOOL OF BANKING
This school was held in February 2025.
In today’s highly competitive world of mergers, acquisitions and the ever-changing turbulent banking environment, it is essential to gain a competitive edge. What better way to assure yourself and your institution of this edge than to attend the MBA School of Banking. Challenging yet entertaining instructors coupled with the latest education course study will allow you to gain an invaluable banking education. This education will aid in preparing you for today’s complex banking issues and boost your career as a banker.
SCHOOL OF COMPLIANCE
This school was held in March 2025.
Compliance is one of the most crucial and consuming issues in the financial industry today. The regulatory agencies are making it clear through their examinations of banks that no institution can afford to be without a comprehensive, well-managed compliance program. Your compliance officer must be able to run the process, including a bankwide training program, like a well-oiled machine.
MBA provides the School of Compliance as a major resource for banking education to ensure financial institutions have the latest knowledge and preparation they need to properly handle compliance issues.
SCHOOL OF LENDING
This school was held in March 2025.
The purpose of the MBA School of Lending is to prepare mid-level bankers and commercial loan officers to serve effectively and profitably by developing an understanding of your bank’s risk appetite, risk tolerance, risk culture and the risks assumed in the loan portfolio.
ADVANCED SCHOOL OF LENDING
This school was held in March 2025.
Successful lenders today must acquire a broad knowledge and understanding of the many different lending scenarios and develop the skills required to manage them. The Advanced Lending School has been designed to reflect contemporary trends affecting the financial services industry and to meet the growing need for lenders to have the latest knowledge and preparation for complex lending situations.
CONSUMER LENDING SCHOOL
This school was held in June 2025.
This real-world program will prepare consumer lenders to have more informed and effective conversations with credit partners and build stronger, more profitable relationships with customers. This 4-day course meets the needs of lenders who serve consumers, small real estate investors, and/or small business clients in a branch environment. It will prepare lenders for success in today’s universal banking environment, where they must have the skills and flexibility to serve a wide variety of loan requests.