Payplus Academy
Building the next generation of African banking professionals.
Payplus Academy is a contracted professional development practice delivering specialist banking education to financial institutions, regulatory bodies, and development programmes across Ghana and West Africa. Our curriculum is developed by practitioners — built on real engagement experience, not textbook theory.
Course Catalogue
Six programmes. One Standard.
Every Payplus Academy programme is developed from practitioner experience and delivered by specialists who have worked at the highest levels of Ghana's banking and financial technology sector.
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Certification Programme
Cash & Liquidity Management
A comprehensive certification programme covering the fundamentals of cash management, the cash operating cycle, treasury flows, commercial flows, liquidity management structures, receivables and payables management, and risk management. Designed for transaction banking teams, relationship managers, and corporate banking professionals.
Cash Operating Cycle
Treasury Flows
Liquidity Management
Receivables Management
Payables Management
Risk Management
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Professional Programme
Transaction Banking 2.0
The strategic and operational framework for modern transaction banking — covering operating models (Technical Leader, Product Factory, Business Unit), commercial services models, the full product suite across cash management and trade, technology requirements, and integration architecture. Uses real Ghanaian market case studies drawn from Payplus's transformation engagements.
Operating Models
Commercial Services
Products & Services
Technology
Market Benchmarking
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Professional Programme
Trade & Financial Supply Chain Finance
A comprehensive programme on trade finance and supply chain finance — covering why trade is attractive to banks, letters of credit, demand guarantees, documentary collections, supply chain finance structures, working capital tensions, receivables finance solutions (factoring, invoice discounting, reverse factoring), and bank risk management in trade transactions.
Trade Finance
Letters of Credit
Demand Guarantees
Supply Chain Finance
Working Capital
Risk Management
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Professional Programme
The Practice of Product Management
A specialist programme for banking product managers and digital finance professionals — covering product strategy and the 10-step product strategy framework, product operating models, customer needs analysis, competitive positioning, KPI development, product innovation, and how to influence without authority across cross-functional teams.
Product Strategy
Operating Models
Market Research
KPI Development
Product Innovation
Cross-functional Leadership
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Professional Programme
Solution Selling for Banking Professionals
A specialist sales programme for relationship managers, transaction banking specialists, and product teams — covering solution selling principles, the sales funnel and flywheel models, client needs and buying behaviour, the 7-step sales process, prospecting and lead qualification, objection handling, and closing techniques adapted for institutional banking contexts.
Solution Selling
Sales Funnel
Flywheel Model
Lead Qualification
Objection Handling
7-Step Sales Process
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Two-Level Programme
Payments & Fintech
A two-level programme covering the fintech revolution and its implications for banking professionals. The Basic level covers fintech regulation, innovation, customer-centricity, and payment digitisation. The Intermediate level explores fintech collaboration for deposit growth, digitising value cycles, collection management optimisation, payment platform strategy, and risk management in the fintech landscape.
Fintech Regulation
Payment Digitisation
Deposit Growth
Collection Management
Liquidity Strategy
Risk Management
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Three practices. One firm.
We operate across three interconnected service lines — each grounded in the same deep expertise in financial systems, institutional strategy, and operational transformation.
Institutional Programmes
Custom-designed programmes delivered in-house for banking teams, board members, and management groups. We develop bespoke curriculum aligned to the specific context and strategic objectives of the institution — from entry-level orientation to senior executive briefings.
Open Enrolment Courses
Scheduled programmes delivered through our institutional partner, the National Banking College — open to banking professionals across Ghana. These programmes follow our standard curriculum and award completion certificates recognised within the Ghanaian banking sector.
Development Programme Training
Specialist capacity building within development finance programmes — for multilateral and bilateral organisations requiring training components within broader institutional development mandates. We have delivered within GIZ-funded frameworks and can engage within EU, AfDB, and World Bank programme structures.
Institutional Partnership
Our Academic Partner.
We operate across three interconnected service lines — each grounded in the same deep expertise in financial systems, institutional strategy, and operational transformation.
National Banking College — Ghana's Premier Banking Institution.
Payplus Africa holds a formal Terms of Agreement with the National Banking College (NBC) — Ghana's premier institution for banking and financial services professional development. Through this partnership, Payplus Academy programmes are delivered within the NBC's structured training framework, providing participants with formally recognised professional development credentials.
The NBC partnership positions Payplus Academy as a serious institutional player in Ghana's banking education landscape — not an informal training provider, but a contracted curriculum developer and programme facilitator operating within the country's most credible banking training environment.
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Specialist programmes across banking, trade, digital finance, and institutional strategy
NBC
Formal partnership with Ghana's National Banking College since 2022
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Practitioner-developed curriculum — built from real engagement experience
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Delivery modes: institutional in-house and open enrolment through NBC