Description
Become your institution’s AI catalyst!
CBAIS equips banking professionals with the knowledge, guardrails, and practical playbooks to harness artificial intelligence responsibly and at scale. Across seven concise modules, you’ll learn the core concepts of AI in financial services, map high‑value use cases, stand up governance and risk management aligned to evolving regulations, evaluate AI‑enabled vendors, and put tools like Microsoft Copilot to work—culminating with ethics, responsible use, and exam prep. Designed as an at‑your‑own‑pace certification, CBAIS blends real‑world labs, workbooks, and guided assignments so you can move from exploration to execution with confidence.
What’s Included?
- In‑depth learning: 7 modules with 14+ hours of guided instruction led by Jon Waldman, built specifically for financial institutions.
- Real‑world application: 9 lab exercises and module quizzes that translate concepts into tangible deliverables you can take back to your institution.
- Study guides & workbooks: A workbook per module to reinforce key messages and serve as your exam study companion.
- Hands‑on GRC practice: Assignments that walk you through performing AI‑related risk work inside SBS’s TRAC platform, including building assets and generating risk reports (guided access provided in the course).
- Self‑paced progress: Move forward immediately after each lecture, quiz, or assignment—no waiting for grading—with 70 days (10 weeks) to complete.
- Comprehensive exam: 100‑question multiple‑choice exam, 200 minutes to complete, 80% to pass; retake options are available.
- Instructor & Institute support: Direct instructor contact info and SBS Institute support are provided throughout the course.
Covered Topics
- Module 1 — Intro to AI in Financial Services
Foundations of AI (definitions, history, types), the current state of AI in banking, key threats and controls, and a survey of leading platforms (e.g., Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT) with a hands‑on GenAI exercise. - Module 2 — Strategic AI Use‑Cases in Financial Services
High‑impact applications across cybersecurity, fraud prevention, automation/analytics, software development acceleration, and content workflows—plus an assignment to build value for your FI. - Module 3 — AI Governance & Risk Management
Align governance with the NIST AI RMF (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage); incorporate emerging rules such as the U.S. Executive Order on AI and the EU AI Act; define acceptable use, inventory systems and use‑cases, and embed risk assessment and oversight. - Module 4 — AI Vendor Risk Management
Evaluate vendors’ AI capabilities and controls, ask the right due‑diligence questions, and integrate AI considerations into third‑party oversight. - Module 5 — Practical AI Implementation
Better prompt engineering, productivity tooling, and building an AI‑enabled culture—including a capstone exercise on applying prompting and change‑management in your institution. - Module 6 — Leveraging Microsoft Copilot
Security and privacy posture, Copilot across Word/Excel/Teams/PowerPoint, and Copilot Agents for workflow automation—with quiz and exercise. - Module 7 — Ethics, Responsible Use, Recap & Exam Prep
Practical ethics frameworks for responsible AI adoption, a structured course recap, and focused preparation for the final exam.
