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The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is the business school at the Frankfurt financial centre. Its services include continuing education and higher education courses, open seminars and training courses, along with custom-made education and consulting services for companies. In their research, the faculty members address current finance and management questions.

Moreover, experts of the Frankfurt School manage consulting and training projects for finance questions in emerging and developing countries, particularly microfinance topics. In addition, the FS maintains a campus in China with the Shanghai International Banking and Finance Institute (SIBFI).

The FS finances itself solely through study fees, consulting fees and foundation funds.

Education 

At almost 100 locations in Germany, the Frankfurt School offers extra-occupational courses of study (banking operations, bank operations management, management studies) for bankers. More than 100,000 specialist employees and executive personnel have completed these.

The Frankfurt School is an academic university with the right to confer doctoral degrees. On the campus in Frankfurt, approximately 1,200 students engage in studies or attain doctorates in state-recognised and accredited Bachelor’s and Master’s courses of study. In the Bachelor’s programmes, at least one foreign semester is obligatory; in the Master’s programmes, English is the language of instruction.

The services are rounded off by numerous seminars and training courses on specific banking and finance topics, on management questions and an executive education programme. They are oriented to being "open" (accessible to individual participants) and as in-house measures for companies.

Working group in the inner courtyard

University 

Practice integration is a substantial component of the course of study. Students work in parallel to their jobs or complete professional training and/or internships. They are requested to bring their professional experiences into the seminars. International orientation is important to us. The courses of study end with internationally accredited final examinations. Each course of study includes foreign language training and a foreign stay. In foreign internships, students receive insights into the working world of the host countries. Through small groups, attainable and expert lecturers along with outstanding infrastructure, the Frankfurt School offers a high degree of support quality. The library and computer rooms are open every day around the clock. In the Career Centre, students and graduates receive active support with their applications. Reciprocally, companies that have vacancies turn to the Career Centre. Here, they receive recruiting support free of charge and without bureaucracy.

An overview of Bachelor's programmes at: www.frankfurt-school.de/bachelor

Master's programmes at: www.frankfurt-school.de/master
 

Research services and associated education and consulting services

The Frankfurt School has bundled its research into six centres:

• Center for Financial Economics: structure, development and stability of the financial industry, along with its complex relationships with other relevant fields of modern economies
• Centre for Practical Quantitative Finance: current practical questions on quantitative finance (e.g., risk management, credit risk modeling, credit derivatives)
• Management Research Centre: management in companies and other organisations
• Centre for Development Finance: development of financial systems in developing and emerging countries and their effects on economic growth
• East-West Centre of Business Studies and Cultural Science: interdisciplinary research on innovations and changes in modern business at the interfaces of economics, culture, society and politics
• Institute for International Health Management: management questions on the health and hospital system (among other things, deregulation, internationalisation, supply networks)

Education consultation and outsourcing

The Frankfurt School advises companies in the financial industry and individuals in education and career questions. For companies, individual departments or teams of experts assess existing expertise and talents. On the basis of the company targets and the requirements for knowledge and expertise of employees that result from this assessment, they develop a concept with which existing gaps can be closed. If desired, the Frankfurt School drafts the measures, organises the implementation and provides supervision. Within the framework of corporate outsourcing, the Frankfurt School assumes complete training management.

International Consulting

A developed banking and finance landscape contributes to the economic growth of a country. In developing and emerging countries, structural and institutional weak points (e.g., insufficient sets of rules and monitoring systems, weak payment systems, weak markets) prevent the setting up of efficient banking and financing. In addition, it is often the case that only a limited selection of financial products is available. Population groups with little income and small companies have little access to financial service providers. As such, development policy measures in banking and financing lead to economic upswings and allow many individuals to personally participate in the process.

The experts of the FS are conceiving and implementing consulting and training projects in emerging and developing countries. They have special know-how for microfinance projects. Clients include international donor organisations, NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and international finance companies. The advisors support partners and clients in, among other things, the set-up and development of financial institutions, the development of business plans for banksand finance companies and the introduction and management of international loan programmes in financial institutions. They conduct on-site training.

In the spring, the Frankfurt School transferred its work in the field of the management and consulting of funds in development financing to a subsidiary - ConCap Connective Capital. ConCap is assigned with the fund management of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE). EFSE is the largest investment fund for the financing of small businesses and the promotion of residential ownership in Southeast Europe.