Professor Brian Scott-Quinn answers questions on the social value of high frequency traders on the FT.com

Evita Zanusso from Big Society Capital was our speaker this week, and she gave us an overview of 'Social Impact Investment': investments that have a social benefit as well as a financial return. Dan Robertson from the Finance Society has provided us with a review:

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 programmes both in the UK and around the world. Our corporate clients in the UK include many of major banks such as Deutsche, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Commerzbank. Overseas we have worked with several Central Banks including Serbia and Montenegro, Dubai and Egypt, as well as large corporates in Spain and the Nordic region.

Wenyi (Emma) Sun, has been selected by Reading University Students Union (RUSU) for the Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award! This marks the second year in a row where a PhD Student from the ICMA Centre has won the award, with Dina Ghanma winning previously.