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 and 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
The Competitive Power of Transactional Services
Foundation to Intermediate
A programme on how banks turn everyday transactional services into a competitive advantage and revenue engine. Covers commercial, operational, and strategic dimensions of transactional banking.
Transactional Services Strategy
Cash Management
Payments Architecture
Revenue Optimisation
Competitive Positioning
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Professional Programme
Winning the Revenue War with Payments and Collections
Intermediate to Advanced
A strategic programme for transaction and corporate bankers on growing revenue through payments and collections - covering commercial model design, client acquisition, fee income strategies, collections optimisation, and digital channel deployment.
Revenue Strategy
Payments Commercialisation
Collections Optimisation
Digital Channels
Performance Measurement.
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Professional Programme
The Risk and Practice of Financing International Trade
Intermediate
A programme covering the instruments, risk frameworks, and commercial practice of trade finance - from letters of credit and documentary collections to bank guarantees, trade credit insurance, and cross-border payment structures.
Letters of Credit
Documentary Collections
Bank Guarantees
Trade Risk
Export Finance
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Professional Programme
Turning Financial Supply Chain into a Revenue Engine
Intermediate
A programme for corporate and transaction bankers on how to structure, sell, and grow financial supply chain programmes - covering receivables financing, reverse factoring, invoice discounting, vendor finance, and the role of anchor corporates.
Receivables Financing
Reverse Factoring
Vendor Finance
Anchor Corporates
SCF Revenue Strategy.
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Professional Programme
Building and Managing High Performing Products
Intermediate
A programme for bankers in or moving into product roles - covering how to design, launch, manage, and improve banking products that deliver strong commercial performance across the full product lifecycle.
Product Design
Product Launch
Performance Management
Product Improvement
Commercial Strategy
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Two-Level Programme
The Science of Selling Complex Financial Solutions
Foundation to Intermediate
A structured sales methodology programme for relationship managers and product specialists - covering needs diagnosis, solution design, business case development, objection handling, and closing complex financial product deals.
Needs Diagnosis
Solution Design
Business Case Development
Objection Handling
Deal Closing
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Two-Level Programme
Navigating the Digital Payments and Fintech Landscape
Foundation to Intermediate.
A contemporary programme covering Ghana and West Africa payments infrastructure, mobile money ecosystem, fintech regulatory landscape, and the strategic implications of digital transformation for banks and their customers.
Payments Architecture
Mobile Money
Fintech Regulation
Digital Channels
Strategic Implications
Delivery
How we Deliver.
We operate across three interconnected service lines and 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 and 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.
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 and 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