The Financial IT Academy @ SMU (FITA), the first-of-its-kind academy in Singapore to provide training programmes targeted at the financial services IT segment, has been granted Accredited Financial Training Provider status by the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF). Taught by SMU faculty and industry practitioners, the programmes seek to equip participants with holistic knowledge of essential enterprise-wide skills and broad-based technology competencies and give participants the opportunity to work on a real-life banking system.