Maybank sets up Wealth Management Academy in partnership with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

In an effort to further boost the development of its wealth management personnel, the Maybank Group has signed a strategic partnership with Asia’s first centre of excellence for wealth management education, the Wealth Management Institute (WMI) of Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU Singapore) to establish the Maybank Wealth Management Academy (WMA) today.

The Maybank WMA is the first of its kind by a bank in Malaysia. It will offer a practice-based curriculum targeted at sales staff, wealth specialists and managers across the Bank’s three client segments of Private, Premier and Privilege Wealth in eight of Maybank’s global markets, namely Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Brunei and London. The launch of Maybank WMA exemplifies the Bank’s mission of “Humanising Financial Services” and its focus on talent development, in partnership with leading institutions such as NTU Singapore.

Professor Ling San, NTU Provost and Vice-President (Academic), said, “This is an exciting programme that combines NTU's academic rigour with the best practices of our industry partners, to better prepare Maybank's wealth management practitioners for the increasingly competitive and dynamic global landscape, and future challenges. The trainers are leading wealth management practitioners and academics with extensive global experience and who are well-versed with the latest industry trends and developments.”