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Market leading financial training services for the global banking and financial services industries.

We offer a range of courses across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, Australia and the Middle East. Each training course is researched and developed independently and offers solutions to market critical topics within the risk management, capital markets and Financial IT sector.  Our classroom-based instruction is designed for leading financial services firms and covers introductory graduate programmes to advanced topics in the world of finance.  We help you to:

• Explain the difference between the buy side and sell side of the market and know the structure of the main markets.
• Know the function and purpose of the main players in the financial markets and their need for market data and software applications.
• Fully appreciate and understand the entire process of trading, from making prices, to agreeing to trade through to deal capture, trade matching and settlement.
• Explain the responsibilities of the front, middle and back office in a typical dealing operation.
• Understand what market data is and the different kinds of market data available.
• Know the major sources of market data including exchange data, reference data, contributed data, news and commentary sources.
• Understand the way market data is packaged and sold by the market data vendors: Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, IDC, etc.
• Understand the role and importance of technology within the trading room.
• Describe how market data is distributed and displayed from vendor datafeeds, through dealing room networks to the trader desktop.
• Understand the concepts of direct market access, electronic trading, trade capture and order routing and the networks and systems to facilitate this.
• Understand the integration challenges for trading environments; information, platforms, voices and video.