In 2016, Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch — CEO of The Roosevelt Group, former Research Professor at Yale University, and Senior Fellow in Management Practice at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford — together with Manish Maakan, CEO of Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), founded the world’s first and only executive-level learning programme dedicated to transaction banking.

The School was created to fill a critical gap: while transaction banking had become the economic engine of corporate and institutional banking, there was no senior-level forum where leaders could step back from day-to-day execution, examine strategy through first principles, and learn from global peers. The iGTB Oxford School of Transaction Banking was launched to change that.

Held annually at Rhodes House in Oxford — an architectural landmark of the early twentieth century and home to the Rhodes Scholarships — the programme brings together CEOs, CIOs, COOs, and Heads of Wholesale Banking from leading financial institutions across six continents. The programme concludes at the Oxford and Cambridge Club on Pall Mall in London, a Grade II listed building designed by Sir Robert Smirke.

The curriculum is built on a design-thinking, first-principles approach. Rather than cataloguing trends or sharing best practices, the School challenges leaders to revisit foundational assumptions about how wholesale banking creates value — and how institutions must be designed to compound advantage.

In 2025, the programme was renamed to the Intellect Oxford School of Wholesale Banking, reflecting its expanded scope across the full spectrum of wholesale banking: deposits and liquidity management, payments and collections, trade and supply chain finance, and transformation strategy.

Now entering its 12th edition, the School has welcomed over 400 CXOs and senior executives from more than 60 leading banks across five continents. Its alumni community of 300+ leaders represents some of the most influential financial institutions in the world.