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Outstanding academic achievement awards 2014

Following the Graduation Ceremony on Thursday 10th July 2014, ICMA Centre students were rewarded for their effort and performance and congratulated by their peers and staff at the Graduation reception.

The winner of the longstanding ICMA Centre MSc Academic Achievement Award 2014, was Tatiana Rua Darte who received a cash prize for excellent academic performance in an ICMA Centre MSc programme. Whilst undergraduates, Amy Ho and Mirco Balatti Mozzanica shared this year's BSc Academic Achievement Award 2014.

George Cotton, was also awarded £150 worth of Amazon vouchers for winning the prize for Outstanding Contribution to the number 1 ranked BSc Finance and Investment Banking programme for the duration of the undergraduate programme. The prizes were presented by the Head of School, Professor Adrian Bell.

Finally this year’s recipient of the annual Vetiva prize for an outstanding postgraduate student from an African Country was Michael Muchira Mbui who was awarded a £1,000 prize, awarded by ICMA Centre Academic Ogonna Nneji. The Vetiva prize was established by one of the ICMA Centre’s alumni, Dr Olaolu Mudasiru, who graduated from the ICMA Centre in July 1998 and is now Deputy Managing Director of Vetiva Capital Management Limited in Nigeria.

ICMA Centre student Jaime Hernani Fernandez was also awarded the ACT prize for the best performance on the MSc Corporate Finance programme. Our Partners also awarded a number of prizes to our top performing students.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Education Trust awarded a prize of £2,500 to the ICMA Centre's highest achieving MSc student, Han Gao, in the Part One Examinations held January 2014.

The City Livery Company , The Worshipful Company of International Bankers awarded a Prize of £300 to the top performing full time MSc student completing a Research Project module, Khalid AlBadi.

The Danos Associates prize for Excellence in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance of £2000 was awarded to the highest achieving student on the ICMA Centre MSc Capital Markets, Regulation & Compliance programme, Supapon Krisanaruxpani.

Congratulations to all of the winners of the academic prizes and to everyone who graduated this year!

A full gallery of pictures taken at the ceremony can be found on our Facebook page.

Published 23 July 2014

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