– by Nikolaos Antypas, ICMA Centre PhD student There is a major acquisition in the making, which may have dominated your business news stream: AT&T (2nd largest mobile network provider in the U.S.; acquirer) has reached an agreement with Time Warner (4th largest content provider in the U.S.; target; also, Na na, Na na Na…

My name is Ben Deverell, and I’m a career commercial banker with roles spanning operations, risk, strategy and business management. I’m currently a senior member of our Financial Institutions business, supporting clients with their financing, investment, risk management and banking needs. To any current students looking to start a career in finance: the financial industry is a great place to work and I…

Cameron Pfiffer, studying MSc Corporate Finance at the ICMA Centre, blogs about his first weeks at the ICMA Centre and using the Bloomberg Terminals for good and evil. One of the reasons I chose to come to the ICMA Centre was the facilities – the building and the neighboring Henley Business School (which the ICMA Centre…

  Vicky Lee, from South Korea, is a recent graduate of the MSc International Securities, Investment and Banking course at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School. The ICMA Centre offers three scholarship opportunities each year for students to visit Tsinghua University as part of university’s annual Summer Program, and Vicky was one of a select few…

by Adrian R Bell and Dina Ghanma “Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” – Bill Shankly If we are to agree with the great Bill Shankly, then we would not be surprised…

Steve Gruppetta studied MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking at the ICMA Centre, and is now a finance professional and a consultant within EY’s Transaction Advisory Services after joining the practice from the asset management industry.  What if we rate investment funds? “Steve, this supposedly well-managed fund is losing money! My financial planner said it…

Richard Perry, Market Analyst at Hantec Markets and University of Reading alumni, blogs about his return to the university as corporate sponsor of the Finance Society, and gives his tips and advice to students wanting to enter the field of trading. I recently completed a course of seminars at the University of Reading during which I taught a group of…

Hi, my name is Jasmine Mehta and I graduated in July 2014 having studied MSc in Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance at the ICMA Centre, part of Henley Business School, in Reading, UK. Post Financial Crisis in 2008 and Sovereign Crisis in 2010, the lesson of more Responsible Investments on part of asset owners and more…

I have been reading through the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors’ (BCBS) Consultative Document of 5 November 2015 on Haircut Floors for Non-Centrally Cleared Securities Financing Transactions. This sets out the proposed incorporation into Basel III of the recommendations of Workstream 5 of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on securities financing transactions. In particular, the…