The Diploma in Banking supervisión is a one-term full-time program designed to provide the new supervisors joining the Banco de España with up-to date knowledge and practical tools needed to develop their careers in the Bank and also in the international organizations in which the Bank participates, in particular the Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European Central Bank.


The Diploma is taught exclusively to the candidates that have successfully passed the first phase of the public examination for the position of supervisor of the Banco de España.


The program is taught in English and Spanish, with approximately one third of classes taught in English. The program consists of the following courses:


  • Economic analysis
  • Economics of banking
  • Business and banking law
  • Corporate finance and company valuation
  • Quantitative methods
  • Banking risk
  • Banking supervision