Countdown to CPD deadline: MBSE has essential courses for FSPs and key individuals

With only two weeks left until the current CPD cycle ends, time is running out to complete your hours.

Moonstone Business School of Excellence (MBSE), a recognised CPD provider, offers a variety of programmes to help FSPs, key individuals, and representatives gain the necessary CPD hours. These include online courses, events, and publications.

FSPs, key individuals, and representatives must maintain the necessary competence to offer the financial services they are authorised to provide. To do this, they must meet the minimum Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

It’s important to ensure that the CPD activities you choose are relevant to your roles and responsibilities. These activities should enhance your skills, knowledge, expertise, and professional and ethical standards. They should also address any gaps in:

• your technical knowledge;
• your understanding of the financial services environment;
• your knowledge of applicable laws; and
• your knowledge of changes to internal and external conditions relevant to the financial products you are authorised to handle.

MBSE’s offerings start at R57 and include more than 80 courses, providing between 0.5 and 9.5 CPD hours, depending on the course.

To make it easier to find the right one, MBSE’s range of courses is categorised as follows:

• Regulatory environment – changes in the financial services environment, and knowledge and understanding of applicable laws in the financial services sector.
• Ethics – ethical standards required in the financial services sector.
• Technical – professional best practice in terms of provision of financial services, and generic knowledge and understanding of the environment and financial products for which you are authorised.
• Business skills and abilities – best practice in terms of soft skills and managing your practice.

Here are some of our popular courses from each of those categories:

Regulatory

Compliance Risk Management Process

CPD: 3.5; cost: R396

This course defines compliance-related risk identification. It will equip you with the components of the compliance risk management process and the methodology for the implementation of the compliance risk management process.

Getting to know POPIA – CPD

1 CPD; R113

MBSE offers a comprehensive three-module online training course for executives or management to effectively govern the application of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) within their organisations.

Ethics

Understanding FICA

4.5 CPD; R509

This course is designed for employees of accountable institutions. It covers basic concepts of money laundering, terrorist financing, proliferation financing, South African anti-money-laundering legislation, the risk-based approach, and requirements for customer due diligence, transaction reporting, and record-keeping.

Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) – Overview and unpacking what it means

1 CPD; R113

The purpose of TCF is to ensure that financial services firms and the individuals who work within them act in the interests of their customers and treat them fairly.

Technical

Introduction to Short-term Insurance

3.5 CPD; R396

This course introduces the Short-term Insurance industry, covering key players and essential aspects. It explains the differences between insurers, risk management, and the application of financial needs analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of the sector.

Understanding the Cloud

3.5 CPD; R396

The first course in MBSE’s Cyber Security series, comprehensively introduces cloud computing, covering its key concepts, technologies, and deployment models.

Business skills and abilities

Business Continuity Planning

1.5 CPD; R170

This course explains the importance of business continuity, disaster recovery, and succession planning. It equips you with the tools and skills to create and implement effective continuity and recovery plans, ensuring you can proactively mitigate business risks.

A Guide to Effective Stress Management

1 CPD; R170

In today’s climate of economic pressure and political polarization, mastering stress management is more challenging than ever. This short course offers an overview of essential tools, strategies, and practices to improve stress management and productivity. It concludes with an assessment to help learners measure their progress.

Flexible e-learning options

MBSE’s CPD courses stand out for their accessibility, offering flexible e-learning options that can be completed on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, anytime and anywhere.

Other features are:

• access to user-friendly, printable training material that is broken up into smaller units, supplemented with relevant multimedia content;
• access to MBSE’s helpdesk – queries are answered within three business days; and
• regular self-assessment to monitor progress.

Students can access and print their certificate once they have completed all the course activities and passed (at least 60%) the assessments.

Monique Brummer, MBSE’s operations manager, urges those who haven’t met their CPD requirements to act now.

“MBSE students get immediate access to courses after payment if they pay by credit card. They can start working on their required CPD hours for the end of May deadline at any time,” says Brummer.

Click here to sign up for an MBSE CPD course before time runs out.