Hi, my name is Jin Niu. I am currently a MSc Finance and Finance Technology student at the ICMA Centre, on the Whiteknights Campus. To be one of the students in this newly opened programme, I started my journey of studying in the UK in October. The university is located in Reading, which is a…
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How did studying at Henley Business School change my career?
My name is Fenghui Guo, a Chinese graduate of the MSc Finance programme at the ICMA Centre. I graduated from the Business School in December 2018. Before studying at Henley Business School, I had worked as a marketing manager at a securities company for about five years. Responsible for market development and customer relationship maintenance,…
My MSc Experience at the ICMA Centre
By Mohsin Parvez, MSc International Shipping and Finance student. The goal of pursuing a master’s degree was to switch my profession from engineering to research. I feel extremely lucky as well as glad to write this blog about my experience here at the ICMA Centre which led me to achieve my dream job as a…
From Fresher to FCA
Set to graduate this summer, we caught up with Georgia Nicklin as she reflects on her time at the ICMA Centre before she embarks on her career in finance. Read the interview below to find out how she has changed since her return from Venice, and her favourite memories from her time at the ICMA…
Capturing the Student Experience
The ICMA Centre is home to a diverse student populace from all over the world, with different interests, degrees, and backgrounds in finance, and all with promising futures in the working world. We spoke to two such students, Nick Pilkington and Ellis Murley, about what they think sets their degree at the University of Reading…
Unintended Consequences?
During the boom times the Investment Banking industry settled on a process that, they felt, helped them hoover up the brightest and best students before the other sectors got a look in – Spring Insight Weeks for first year undergraduates, Summer Internships between second and third year, the best interns getting offers to join the…
Well I wasn’t expecting that.
The festive holidays have given me the chance to catch up on movies I’ve missed, and rewatch others. Two of those I’ve rewatched (Quantum of Solace & Thor) were much better than I remembered, one of those I’ve caught up on (Prometheus) wasn’t as bad as I’d been lead to believe. I’m sure that there…
Role Modelling
The milkround is in full steam at the moment, and firms with graduate recruitment programmes are all falling over themselves to have the most attractive stands, campus presentations, freebies and so on in what was known in the Noughties as the War for Talent. It’s 4 years now since I was last on the circuit, and…
Greetings from NYC
I’m just back from a flying visit to New York. It was my first time there, so in the name of research I went to Wall Street to see what it was like. I’d already mooched around Midtown & Uptown & had become used to the grid system, the sky scrapers; the picture-postcard view of…
An Early Welcome to ICMA Centre Students
Well September is here again, and as usual I’m really looking forward to meeting all the new MSc, BSc & PhD students that are starting in the next few weeks, and also catching up with those who are returning following their summer holidays. If you’re one of these people, and you are in Reading early, then please…