Maybank to spend RM30mil on digital upskilling programme
PETALING JAYA: Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) has set aside RM30mil this year to implement its FutureReady programme, a digital upskilling programme which aims to increase its employees’ digital literacy, as well as equip them with capabilities that will ensure their relevance.
The bank said in a statement that the training, made mandatory for all employees, is part of Maybank’s “continuous commitment to humanising people development, and enabling them to meet customers’ needs more effectively in the fast-changing digital world”.
Group president and CEO Datuk Abdul Farid Alias said: “The programme was developed to future-proof employees digitally to support the bank’s aspiration to be the ‘Digital Bank of Choice’. Technology is rapidly changing the way we do business today and the future, and it is important that our employees are kept abreast of new developments.”
The FutureReady upskilling programme provides employees with the opportunity to also be certified in new skill areas such as computer programming, data analytics and data science, human-centred design, and agile methodologies.
Apart from learning new skills, employees would be able to experiment with these skills to create innovation, the statement said.
“We recognise that jobs within the banking industry are changing rapidly in the current environment, and we need to prepare our employees to be agile and adaptable to new tasks that may need different skill-sets,” added Farid.
As at end-March, 91% of employees across Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines had been assessed on their levels of digital literacy, and over 20,000 employees underwent the foundational e-learnings, the lender said.
Further to that, 800 managers have been trained on how to conduct FutureReady lab sessions to immediately enable further internalisation and application of learnings, it added.