Annual ICMA Centre BBQ

The annual ICMA Centre BBQ took place last Thursday and despite the temperamental weather was very well attended. The clouds were lifted when Students saw the delicious range of food on offer and the sun even shone while everyone enjoyed an ice cream.

The barbecue was a great chance to celebrate for those lucky enough to have finished their exams, or a chance for a well earned break for those who still had a few exams remaining. It was also attended by representatives from the Henley Business School alumni relations team, who were on hand to speak about the amazing opportunities offered by the alumni network. Students registering even had the chance to win a prize in the raffle.

The BBQ was an excellent chance for the students to reflect on a busy and exciting academic period and to chat with faculty members or catch up with friends.

A full gallery of pictures from the barbecue are available now on Facebook.

Published	3 June 2013

You might also like

Congratulations to the ICMA Centre's latest graduates

The weather was just perfect on Thursday 5 July 2012 for the ICMA Centre's graduation ceremonies.

New Professor of Real Estate Finance

28 February 2013

The ICMA Centre and the University of Reading are delighted to welcome Professor Sotiris Tsolacos who joins the Henley Business School as Professor of Real Estate Finance. Professor Tsolacos joins us from Property & Portfolio Research, the world's largest independent real estate research consultancy, with its headquarters in Boston.

Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending – ‘Bank on Dave’ and many others

If you live in the UK, you may have seen the Channel 4 television programme on 28th February this year (2013) entitled ‘Bank on Dave’. Burnley Savings and Loans to give it its other name, is a company (not a bank) which offers 5% ‘deposit’ rates to lenders and offers loans to those who cannot obtain funding from the high street banks. So how does Dave do this when the high street banks offer no interest at all or perhaps only ½ or 1%? In fact ‘Dave’ is one of a new breed of ‘brokers’ who simply introduce lenders and borrowers to each other. The key difference from banks is that banks have a balance sheet with a depositor contract on one side and a separate contract with its borrowers on the other whereas a peer to peer company has no such contracts and indeed is not even involved at all in borrowing or lending! This is because in P2P, lending contracts are directly between borrower and lenders and the P2P company does not take ‘deposits’ on to its own balance sheet or keep the loans its customers make on its balance sheet.