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Corporate training by sector · Banking & financial services

Cybersecurity and AI training for banks and financial services

Fraudsters target the people who move money and handle customer data. We train branch, operations, contact-centre and head-office staff to stop fraud at the first step, and help your teams use AI without putting customer information at risk.

Prices and law shown for South Africa. Change: Nigeria South Africa Kenya Ghana

Business outcomes

What changes for your organisation

  • Fewer successful payment-fraud and impersonation attempts
  • Faster reporting of suspicious calls, emails and transactions
  • Training records for audit, risk committees and data-protection obligations
  • Safe, approved AI use in operations and compliance

Who takes part: Branch and customer-service staff, payments, treasury and operations teams, contact-centre agents, compliance, risk and internal audit, it, security and digital teams.

Tailored scenarios

The situations your staff practise

A changed-bank-details email

A supplier's "new account details" arrive by email just before a large payment. Staff learn to stop, call back on a known number and report.

A caller posing as a customer

A confident caller has enough personal details to pass basic checks and asks for a SIM change or a password reset. Agents learn the warning signs and when to escalate.

An urgent request from "the MD"

A WhatsApp message or a cloned voice note asks for a confidential transfer today. Staff learn why urgency plus secrecy means verify first.

Customer data in the wrong place

A spreadsheet of account holders is pasted into a public AI tool to "tidy it up". Teams learn what must never leave approved systems.

Data protection, in plain language: the training builds awareness of handling personal data responsibly, in line with your obligations under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). It supports your compliance programme; it is not legal advice.

Safe AI at work

Where AI saves time in banking & financial services

Faster first drafts

Credit memos, customer letters, board-paper summaries and procedure updates, always checked by a person.

Policy and regulation summaries

Plain-language summaries of long internal policies and circulars for front-line staff, verified against the source.

Complaint handling

Categorising and drafting responses to complaints with personal data removed and a human approving every reply.

Which programme

The right programme for each group

CyberSecure Workforce

Every employee, from branches to head office: fraud, impersonation and data protection.

Self-paced: R1,000 per learner. Live or in-house: by quote.

AI Workflow Productivity & Process Transformation

Operations, compliance and customer teams who want to save time with AI safely.

Self-paced: R2,100 per learner. Live or in-house: by quote.

AI + Cybersecurity Professional Accelerator

IT, security, risk and audit professionals who will govern AI and lead the response to AI-enabled fraud.

Self-paced: R4,300 per learner. Live or in-house: by quote.

Two ways to buy

Option 1 · fixed price

Self-paced online, per learner

The prices above. Each learner studies in the Paleon portal with 12 months’ access; buy online and start today.

Worked example for 25 staff in South Africa:

  • CyberSecure Workforce: 25 staff × R900 (10% volume discount) = R22,500, plus VAT where applicable
  • AI Workflow Productivity & Process Transformation: 25 staff × R1,890 (10% volume discount) = R47,250, plus VAT where applicable
  • AI + Cybersecurity Professional Accelerator: 25 staff × R3,870 (10% volume discount) = R96,750, plus VAT where applicable

Option 2 · by quote

Live online, in-house or hybrid

Facilitator-led sessions at your offices, live online or a mix, in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. We quote after a 20-minute call about your teams, locations and dates.

Start small

Try it first: a 10-learner pilot or a free leadership taster

Paid pilot

Pilot with 10 learners

Put 10 staff through the self-paced programme, review their results with us, then decide on a wider rollout. Pilot prices in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana:

10-learner pilot, self-paced, including the 10% volume discount
ProgrammeSouth AfricaNigeriaKenyaGhana
CyberSecure WorkforceR9,000₦495,000KSh 67,500GH₵5,850
AI Workflow Productivity & Process TransformationR18,900₦1,080,000KSh 139,500GH₵12,600
AI + Cybersecurity Professional AcceleratorR38,700₦2,250,000KSh 292,500GH₵26,100

Pilot guarantee: if you order a wider rollout within 90 days, the full pilot fee is credited against it.

Free

Leadership taster session

A short live online session for your leadership team: the cyber and AI risks and opportunities for your organisation, and what training would change. Free, with no obligation.

For the person who signs it off

Something to forward

Need approval inside your organisation? Download a brochure and a one-page business case with costs in ZAR, the outcomes to expect and how the training supports your obligations under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

Versions for other countries, with their own currency and data protection law: Nigeria (NGN): CyberSecure Workforce brochure, business case; AI Workflow Productivity & Process Transformation brochure, business case; AI + Cybersecurity Professional Accelerator brochure, business case Kenya (KES): CyberSecure Workforce brochure, business case; AI Workflow Productivity & Process Transformation brochure, business case; AI + Cybersecurity Professional Accelerator brochure, business case Ghana (GHS): CyberSecure Workforce brochure, business case; AI Workflow Productivity & Process Transformation brochure, business case; AI + Cybersecurity Professional Accelerator brochure, business case

What you hold at audit time

Every learner gets a certificate of completion and a dated attendance record showing each module, quiz and status. Your HR or L&D lead gets a manager login showing the seats used and each learner's progress, so the evidence is ready for an auditor, regulator or insurer.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can the training use examples from banking?

Yes. Scenarios, exercises and the workplace project are adapted to banking and financial services: payments, customer verification, contact centres, branches and compliance.

Can we train branch staff in several cities?

Yes. Staff can learn self-paced online, join live online sessions, or we can train in-house at your offices. Many banks combine self-paced learning for branches with live sessions for head office.

Other sectors: Healthcare · Public sector · Oil & gas and energy.

Talk to us

Tell us about your banking & financial services organisation

Five quick details and we will reply within one working day to arrange a 20-minute call.

We will then send a proposal shaped around your teams, locations and dates.

Prefer to talk first? Book a 20-minute call and we will cover your teams, goals and dates.

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