Investment Compliance The ICMA Centre has a well established expertise in Investment Compliance. We have long recognised and advocated the importance of robust regulatory and compliance policies in financial institutions. This and the level of demand by banks and finance houses for well-trained compliance professionals has led to the Centre running a suite of regulation and compliance executive education programmesContinue reading

Professor Brian Scott-Quinn, non-executive Chairman at the ICMA Centre, has been interviewed on the Financial Times.com ‘Trading Room’ webcast, tackling the question of ‘Are high frequency traders socially useful’  Professor Scott-Quinn also looks at the difficulty determining who owns a company’s shares, due to high frequncy trading’s quick turnovers. Interview in full

A newly issued ICMA Centre discussion paper looks into the recent financial crisis and into whether banks could survive a new Great Depression.  Simone Varotto, Teaching Fellow at the ICMA Centre, investigates whether banks complying with current and proposed bank capital regulation would set aside enough capital reserves to survive a Great Depression scenario, the severe worldwide economic downturn that occuredContinue reading

Research from the ICMA Centre titled “Gains from Mergers and Acquisitions Around the World: New Evidence” will be published in the Financial Management Journal, one of the top Finance Journals, in 2010. The research, co-authored by George Alexandridis from the ICMA Centre documents that Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) can create value for shareholders of acquiring firms beyond the most competitiveContinue reading

The ICMA Centre has once again proved that it is one of the top finance schools in the world when it came joint 4th out of a field of 44 international schools in the 2010 Rotman International Trading Competition held at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. This result is in line with the ICMA Centre’s track recordContinue reading

The Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI), the ICMA Centre at the Henley Business School and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) of the US announce that they have joined forces to support and enhance education, training and certification in financial compliance. The CISI is the largest and most widely respected professional body for those who work in theContinue reading

Dr Simone Varotto, Teaching Fellow at the ICMA Centre has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the European Financial Management Association. The European Financial Management Association was founded in 1994 by Prof. John Doukas to encourage research and disseminate knowledge about financial decision making in all areas of finance as it relates to European corporations, financial institutions andContinue reading

Henley Executive MBA applicants can from this year choose to take advantage of the exceptional scope of expertise across Henley Business School through a range of newly launched themed MBAs. These themed MBAs are designed for experienced, practising managers who are looking for a world renowned general management MBA but with a particular application to three different industries - Corporate Finance, Construction ManagementContinue reading

MSc and BSc students at the ICMA Centre that take the portfolio management course are involved in an assessed group project where they have to build and evaluate a hypothetical portfolio with securities of their choice using real time data. The new web-based ICMA Centre portfolio simulation platform that has been developed by StockTrak Inc and customised by Dr GeorgeContinue reading

A current article in the magazine Professional Investor, ‘Annuities: Lessons from the past and concerns from the future’, discusses what, if anything we can learn from history about the pricing of modern annuities.  Adrian Bell and Charles Sutcliffe discuss the current methods used to price annuities and warn that a shake up in the industry is needed if it is toContinue reading