Executive education at the ICMA Centre
With the creation of the new Simulated trading programmes
Henley Business School, we can
The ICMA Centre has developed a series of tailor-made
trading based courses which, using RiskManager trading
now offer executive education in
simulation, are designed to give participants a realistic
a wider context and we highlight
view of what life is like on a trading floor. Depending
on the clients’ needs, the courses, which are all taught
here some examples of the greater
by ex-market practitioners can be either pusre trading
scope and specialisms that are
sessions or a combination of trading and taught theory.
Programmes can include equity, spot foreign exchange,
www.icmacentre.ac.uk/
now available, specifically through
US treasury bonds and FX options markets.
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the ICMA Centre and the School of
The ICMA Centre is based
Real Estate & Planning
ICMA Centre Workshop Series
at Whiteknights, Reading. Available on a group-booking basis, these workshops
The ICMA Centre is unique and has an international
are designed to provide a deep intuitive insight into
reputation for being the premier institution in
the following areas:
Europe for academic and executive education for • Repo
the financial markets. The ICMA Centre is the result Delegates will learn about the essential legal
of Europe’s first active collaboration between the and operational character of repo and the role
securities and investment industry and academia. of collateral, and be guided past the confusions
In 1991, the International Capital Market Association and misunderstandings that are so prevalent on
began its relationship with the University of Reading the subject. A key objective of the course is to
and the University’s finance department became the demonstrate the trading and pricing linkages between
ICMA Centre. The Centre is housed in a purpose built repo and other instruments including bonds, interest
modernist building with state-of-the-art facilities, rate swaps, bond futures and credit derivatives.
including three dealing rooms. Alongside internationally
• Market VaR
recognised certificate programmes, we also run
Delegates will learn how to understand the
workshops and tailored training programmes.
risk assessment of different types of financial
instruments (cash, future/forwards and options) in
ICMA Centre Programmes
different asset classes (equity, fixed income, currency
and commodities). They will be shown how to build
Tailored Programmes
VaR models for different types of portfolio in a
The ICMA Centre has specialised expertise in a number
practitioner led hands-on environment.
of areas of finance – securities trading, risk management,
• Foreign Exchange and Money Markets
insurance, debt markets, regulation and compliance,
Delegates will learn how to apply a small body of
and asset management. In addition, we have staff with
standard arithmetical procedures to the pricing,
practical expertise in the retail and wholesale financial
valuation, settlement, hedging and arbitrage of any
services area in product development, strategy,
FX and money market instrument rather than having
treasury, distribution and sales training.
to learn formulae by rote. A key part of the course is
We have recently run tailored programmes for to demonstrate the nexus between cash and short-
companies in private equity, hedge funds, asset/wealth term derivatives.
management, strategy in investment banking and
• Financial Options
trading simulations. We have a global client base which
Delegates will learn how to price, hedge and trade
includes the Korea Securities Dealers Association
financial options, and in particular, how to manage
(KSDA), Bank of China, Securities Association of China,
the risk of an options portfolio in a practitioner led
JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Fortis Investments, KBC
hands-on environment. Delegates will benefit from
Financial Products, Royal Bank of Scotland, Amsterdam
a unique learning approach that uses state-of-the-art
Institute of Finance (for NIBC), and Thomson Reuters.
trading simulations and hands-on case studies.
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