The Global Academy of Finance and Management was established in 1996, in the United States for the purposes of quality assurance in accredited education and training, examinations, and continuing education at the international level. The International Academy is a global certification body that accredits universities and training companies as training service providers bearing the international training ISO 29990. It owns both the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM) and the American Academy of Project Management (AAPM), which are spread in a wide range of offices and branches in the countries of the world It has more than 200,000 members, and the International Academy of Finance and Management specializes in providing professional certification standards with an international reputation in the following areas:
- Wealth Management and Private Banking
- Risk Management and Credit Operations
- Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering
- Private Equity, Market Analysis, Investment, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Senior management development
- Commercial banks and enhance the performance of their branches
- Engineering and project management
- Marketing, advertising, leadership and others
The Global Academy of Finance and Management has worked with many international organizations such as: HSBC Global Banking Group, US Department of Labor, NASA, Thomson Reuters, Deutsche Bank, China Construction Bank, US Department of the Interior, US Department of Energy, US Financial Sector Regulatory Authority, and others. Globally, but in the Arab world, it has cooperated in training employees of many banking and financial sectors in the Arab countries and among the most important Arab institutions: the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority, the Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, the Saudi Monetary Fund and many other banks