Four students won Outstanding Achievement Awards this month in the Citibank University Banking Course organised by Citibank and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They also won the chance to attend interviews for internships this summer at one of Citibank's Asia Pacific offices.
Fifty students participated in the five-month course which ended with a graduation ceremony on April 2.
They attended 15 lectures covering a wide range of retail banking business, visited a Citibank branch, sat for a mid-term test and presented a final project.
The project was a team effort. The 50 students were randomly divided into different groups to test their ability to work with different people.
The four outstanding students - Fang Xiang Sheang, Brian Chan Chi-ho, Kent To Kwok-wai and Eva-Maria Heidrun Saur - received prizes based on attendance, class participation, mid-term test results and the final project.
The project required students to develop a new banking product for a specific customer segment aimed at increasing the bank's revenue during the economic downturn.
