MANAMA, April 13 -- Ithmaar Bank, a Bahrain-based Islamic retail bank, has launched a pioneering new employee training and compliance programme initiative aimed at bolstering compliance with regulatory rules and guidelines across the organisation.

The Compliance Champions programme will see 48 members of staff from different departments undergo in-house training sessions alongside customised courses.

The objective of the programme is to train employees from outside the

Compliance department to become Compliance Champions and serve as the first line of compliance support on the ground. Once sufficiently trained, the Compliance Champions will be able to respond to compliance matters and alert the Compliance and Anti Money Laundering (AML) ...