On Friday 6th November 2009, the ICMA Centre travelled to Athens, Greece to take part in the British Council UK Education Fair.  These fairs are held in numerous locations across the world, and are excellent opportunities for E.U and overseas students to find out more about studying in the UK. Represented by Dr George Alexandridis, Lecturer in Finance at theContinue reading

A recent article published in the Wall Street Journal highlights the growing interest in Islamic Finance.  The sector is now seen as a thriving industry, with many keen to study the specialised area.  Business schools are now tailoring their courses to reflect these needs and structuring degrees to train students in investments that comply with Quranic Law. In 2007 theContinue reading

For a brief moment on Tuesday 21st July, the online database of medieval soldiers (http://www.medievalsoldier.org/) hosted at the ICMA Centre, was the news!  This database of soldiers serving the English crown between 1369-1454 and including the names of men-at-arms and archers who served at famous battles such as Agincourt in 1415, made the front page of the BBC website, wasContinue reading

Do you operate in the Financial Services industry? ICMA Centre and Henley Business School, University of Reading are hosting a unique event to meet and chat with its Bachelors, Masters and MBA students at the Centre on 15th October 2009. The students are all reading Finance-related subjects, from Investment Banking to Real Estate Management; Accountancy to Economics; from all over the worldContinue reading

With deep regret we announce the death of Professor Paul Nelson who passed away the weekend of 8 August. Paul had been the senior Capital Markets partner at law firm Linklaters before he went part time so as to take up as chair in Regulation and Compliance programme at the ICMA Centre. Paul was widely regarded as one of the few analytically-inclined professionalContinue reading

Professor Brian Scott-Quinn has described the ultimate cause of the banking crisis with the words: ?greed and fear’ In his interview with Project Manager Today magazine, Professor Scott-Quinn cited many other factors of the world banking system that had inevitably contributed to this crisis we are experiencing.  He went on to say that simply reversing the problems that have been caused wouldContinue reading

A student from Vietnam has been awarded the prestigious British Council Chevening Scholarships to undertake a postgraduate degree at the ICMA Centre for the 2009/10 academic year. The award has been jointly funded by the University of Reading, and will cover 50% of the course fees which will be provided by the ICMA Centre.  Mr Hung will be studying MSc Corporate Finance at the ICMA Centre. Chevening Scholarships are prestigious awards whichContinue reading

Two of the ICMA Centre’s high flying students received the ICMA Centres’ Academic Achievement Award for the highest academic results for each of the MSc and BSc years. Satchit Sagade, who graduated with Distinction from the MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking, and Daniel Osborn on the BSc International Securities and Investment Banking, both received the £500 prize for achieving theContinue reading

Champagne and Celebration was the order of the day, as the ICMA Centre celebrated the success of its students in style. Students graduated at the ceremony on 2 July in the Great Hall at the University’s London Road Campus. Prior to the event, graduating students and their guests were invited to the ICMA Centre for a champagne reception. One exceptional student wasContinue reading

ICMA Centre MSc student Richard Hamilton, from Belfast has been awarded a prestigious investment banking prize by the Securities & Investment Institute. The Stephen Cooke Scholarship Programme commemorates the late Stephen Cooke, former senior partner of stockbroking firm, Gerrard Vivian Gray. These scholarships are only available to SII accredited Centres of Excellence, which are an elite group of universities includingContinue reading