Skip to main content
211607 right arrow icon
How do UK workers feel about AI? | Read the full report here

Close search

London, New York and Worldwide - ICMA Centre Expands Executive Education Courses

The University of Reading's ICMA Centre is to offer distance learning on one of its most successful courses.

The University of Reading's ICMA Centre is to offer distance learning on one of its most successful courses.

The Professional Risk Manager (PRM) examinations - the certification programme for the Professional Risk Manager's International Association (PRMIA) - have been running in London since January 2006 in collaboration with 7city Learning and have had a huge take up, largely thanks to the live streaming over the internet, making the course available worldwide.

Candidates in more than 90 countries are actively pursuing the PRM, more than any other risk certification programme globally. With PRMIA members in more than 155 countries, the PRM is also the most broadly recognised qualification for risk managers and is the only one to have received public endorsements from several leading firms.

Now, a distance learning option will be offered by the ICMA Centre, including studio-filmed lectures, animated Excel demonstrations, worked examples and self-assessment/diagnostic tests to prepare professionals for taking the PRM exams.

Professor Carol Alexander, Chair of Risk Management and Director of Research at the ICMA Centre, said: "The PRM certification programme has been developed in close consultation with leading industry players to help meet the growing demand for properly qualified professional risk managers in banks, asset managers, corporates and regulatory bodies. This development is part of our ongoing expansion of PRM training. Our candidates are now able to choose between classroom-based lectures, live streaming or studio recorded lectures."

The ICMA Centre and 7city Learning are also planning to offer classroom-based lectures in New York starting in April 2007.

A demonstration of the system is available at www.icmacentre.ac.uk/courseware/PRM

The move further enhances ICMA's position as a world-leader in the teaching of those who want to pursue a career in the highly-competitive field of financial trading. It comes just a few weeks after further investment in the centre was announced, with an extension and a refurbishment to improve facilities.

Published 6 December 2006

You might also like

The LIBOR/ TIBOR ‘Scandal’

12 February 2013
The large fine imposed on RBS last week suggests that a ‘scandal’ took place in the banking world over the setting of LIBOR. Yes – there was probably systematic mis-pricing of LIBOR which enabled some traders and some banks to profit at the expense of others. But the LIBOR issue simply highlights a much wider problem in financial markets which is that many ‘prices’ quoted in markets are not market prices at all. Instead they are prices based on computer models, matrix pricing or sheer guesswork, which may or may not produce ‘accurate’ prices. The reason for using computers models and guesswork is that in many financial products there actually are no transactions at all or very few even over periods of some weeks or months and thus no market prices.

CBI’s first Green Bond Treasurer Survey supported by ICMA Centre academics

21 April 2020
Dr Ivan Sangiorgi and Dr Lisa Schopohl from the ICMA Centre at Henley Business School have supported the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) by providing data support for its first Green Bond Treasurer Survey.
Business News

General election 2017: Your future finances are at stake

6 June 2017
With the general election coming up this week, it’s more than just your immediate future that’s at stake. In the long-term you need to know that your finances are secure. So before you make the choice, have a look at the differences in what the main parties are promising for your pensions, and how that could affect you in the long run.