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About the Institute

Watson & Wells Solutions is a specialist training institute offering professional certification in commercial banking and capital markets — built on working recreations of real banking systems, delivered by industry practitioners.

Our Purpose

Where Finance Theory Meets Institutional Practice

Watson & Wells Solutions offers two professional certification programmes — the CCLP™ in Commercial Lending and the CODP™ in OTC Derivatives — designed to give finance professionals and MBA graduates a practical career advantage.

Our curriculum is built around working recreations of production-grade core banking and treasury risk management systems. Participants navigate the exact screens, live dashboards, and software workflows used daily by global financial institutions — developing the system-level capability that employers in commercial banking and capital markets look for.

Developed and delivered by industry veterans with decades of front-office experience, both programmes combine live simulations, structured case studies, and instructor-led sessions to produce professionals who are ready to contribute from day one.

CBS — Core BankingTRM.3 — Treasury & RiskIndustry PractitionersHands-on Assessment
Watson and Wells training session
Programme DeliveryInstructor-led, practitioner-designed, system-based training
How We Teach
Three pillars. One outcome.

Every session, every module, and every assessment is built around the same three things.

Simulations

Participants work on faithful recreations of CBS and TRM.3 production systems — the same screen codes, fields, GL entries, and validation workflows that real operators encounter every day. Every concept is taught on the system, not about it.

Industry Cases

Every module is built around actual banking and capital markets scenarios. One running client universe — the Apex group — is carried across all products in the commercial lending track, so deals build on each other the way they do on a real desk.

Practitioners

Designed and delivered by professionals with decades of front-office experience in commercial banking and capital markets. The content reflects how deals are actually structured, how trades are actually processed, and how systems are actually used.

Alumni Voices
From people who completed the programmes

Past CCLP™ and CODP™ participants — each card links to their LinkedIn profile so you can see the careers behind the words.

I came in able to define a swap and a covenant. I left able to book one. Running a deal end to end on the actual screens — then a trade through clearing and margin — is what made the interviews straightforward.
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Abhilash L JalageriCCLP™ & CODP™ Alumnus
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The first time I processed a drawdown and watched my own GL entries balance, commercial lending stopped being a textbook chapter. That practical experience is what the desk actually wants from day one.
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Daivik D RCCLP™ Alumnus
in / LinkedIn →
Booking an IRS, then watching it move through a CCP versus a CSA, taught me more about margin in an afternoon than months of reading had. The blotter makes it concrete.
Santhosh RaoCODP™ Alumnusin / LinkedIn →
Spreading a CRE T-12, normalising NOI and building the credit memo on the system is the part of underwriting nobody else teaches you to do on a live screen.
Vinay BettadaCCLP™ Alumnusin / LinkedIn →
The cross-asset capstone — rates, credit and FX on one book through to settlement — is the closest thing to a live trading desk I had seen before I actually joined one.
Arun S KumarCODP™ Alumnusin / LinkedIn →
More voices
Additional testimonials added as each cohort completes the programme.

⚠ Draft quotes — confirm wording with each participant before publishing · Quotes link to verified LinkedIn profiles

Ready to Build Practical Banking Skills?

Explore the CCLP™ or CODP™ programme outline, or apply for the next cohort.

CCLP™ — Commercial LendingCODP™ — OTC Derivatives