RBA Focus December 2016 | Page 5

RBA F CUS |5 RBA Launches Programmes in Latin America with PwC competitive landscape. He went on to say “Professionals need to know and be aware of the fact that if they are not constantly refining themselves and their careers, they will cease being attractive to companies and their professional future could be threatened.” Continuing the progress made around the world, we’ve been in Colombia recently to launch the first RBA programmes in partnership with PwC. We will be running classroom courses of our flagship programme at PwC Colombia and caught up with Juan Cros, senior manager at Knowledge Solutions, to hear his thoughts on the impact of RBA programmes on their employees and PwC as a whole. Juan also commented on PwC’s commitment to best practice in their markets and its centrality to remaining at the top of advisory businesses worldwide. This is exemplified by Knowledge Solutions at PwC, led by Cros, who said that “our innovative area of Knowledge Solutions aims to be at the forefront, with the best international partnerships in different topics that could be of interest to the industries our clients work in.” Juan went on to describe the partnership with the Retail Banking Academy as “the perfect example”. Along with the partnership, we were privileged to be inducted into PwC’s Hall of Fame. “In ‘The Hall of Fame’ we honour our international and national partn