Honors Ceremony, Rome, 17 May 2011
Speakers and awardees include:
- Antonio Vigni, Chief Executive Officer - Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
- Ben Tellings, Chairman - ING DiBa
- Tim Rooney, Global Head of Credit Products - Deutsche Bank
- Derek Wong, Managing Director - Dah Sing Bank
- Garry Marsh, Advisor to the Board - Diamond Bank
- Tomasz Bogus, Chief Executive Officer - Bank Pocztowy
- Douglas Beckett, Former Group Head of Retail Banking - Mashreq Bank
- Patrick Waldron, Chief Executive Officer - Post Office Financial Services
- Sir Peter Ellwood, Former Chief Executive Officer - Lloyds TSB
Honors Ceremony, London, 29 June 2011
- Ian Lindsey, Former CEO - Save and Prosper bank
- Dick Harryvan, Former Chief Executive Officer - ING Direct
- Antonio Vigni, Chief Executive Officer - Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena
- Ben Tellings, Chairman - ING DiBa
- Tim Rooney, Global Head of Credit Products - Deutsche Bank
- Derek Wong, Managing Director - Dah Sing Bank
- Garry Marsh, Advisor to the Board - Diamond Bank
- Tomasz Bogus, Chief Executive Officer - Bank Pocztowy
- Douglas Beckett, Group Head of Retail Banking - Mashreq Bank
- Patrick Waldron, Chief Executive Officer - Post Office Financial Services
- Catrin Fransson, Head of Retail - Swedbank
- Nick Jue, Chief Executive Officer - ING Netherlands
- Boris Buvinic Guerovich, Gerente General - Banco Itaú Chile
Click here to view a selection of presntations from the IARB Honors ceremony in London including Michael Lafferty's introductory speech.
Honors Ceremony, Pretoria, 24 August 2011
Speakers and awardees include:
- Michael Lafferty, Chairman - lafferty Group
- Lord Meghnad Desai, Emiritus Professor - London School of Economics
- Yvette Singh, Deputy Registrar of Banks - South African Reserve Bank
- Dick Harryvan, former CEO - ING Direct
- Gavin Opperman, Chief Executive of Retail Banking - Absa Bank
- Dr James Mwangi, CEO and Managing Director, Equity Bank
- Nabeel Malik, Head of Retail Banking - First City Monument Bank
- Yehia El Agami, Head of Retail Banking - bank Misr
- Pascal Guignard, VP and General Manager (New Business Partnerships GNS EMEA) - American Express
- Garry Marsh, Head of Retail Banking - Diamond Bank

Honors Ceremony, Istanbul, 18 October 2011
Speakers and awardees include:
- Hakan Binbasgil, Deputy CEO and Chief Retail Banking Officer - Akbank
- Carl Holsters, Former member of the European management team - Citibank
Malaysia, 01 November, 2011

Graduation Ceremony, London, 17 November 2011
Speakers and awardees include:
- Adam Sulley, Retail Banking - Agricultural Development Bank
- Selom Cofie-Atta, Regional Sales - Service Manager Southern Sector - Fidelity Bank
- Onesimo Jacob Mukumba, Director of Consumer Banking - Fidelity Bank
- François Thiart, Head of Product and Support - First National Bank
- Ranjit Mukherjee, AVP, Customer Analytics & Database Marketing - ADCB
- Dinesh Pai, Head of Finance- Consumer Banking - ADCB
- Rudy Hamdani, Managing Director - PT. Bank OCBC NISP
- Sarvesh Sarup, General Manager, Head of Global Retail Banking - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
- Catrin Fransson, Head of Retail - Swedbank
- Nick Jue, Chief Executive Officer - ING Netherlands
Turkey, 23 February, 2012

Z Nazan Somer, head of retail banking at Yapi Kredi Bank in Istanbul receives honorary membership of the International Academy of Retail Banking (IARB) from Michael Lafferty, IARB Chairman.
Left to right: Gökhan Erel, SME Marketing Vice President, Yapi Kredi Bank; Faik Bakay Korkmaz, Affluent Banking Marketing Vice President, Yapi Kredi Bank; Z.Nazan Somer, Executive Vice President, Credit Cards and Consumer Lending BU Yapi Kredi Bank; Michael Lafferty, Chairman, International Academy of Retail Banking; Mehmet Cemalcılar, Retail Marketing Executive Vice President Yapi Kredi Bank; Deniz Hasanbaş, Network Training Development Solutions Manager, Yapi Kredi Bank.
UAE, 03 May 2012

Left to right: Mohammed Abdulla, CEO, Sharjah Islamic Bank; Evelyn Hunter-Jordan, Executive Director, IARB; Ali Ibrahim, Deputy Director, Dubai Economic Department; Mohammed Bushnain, Director of the Business Excellence Department, Sharjah Islamic Bank.






