Finance courses in Britain are generally three years for undergraduates and one year for postgraduates. High school students in China have completed the preparatory course of 1 year, and can enter most British universities, and get a bachelor's degree with global gold content in four years. The content of study generally does not exceed the following two aspects: corporate finance and international financial market and investment. Corporate finance mainly studies corporate equity setting, capital institutions, financial courses in some industries, and financial majors in banking, insurance and real estate industries. International financial market and investment will involve some financial derivatives, such as option futures.
We often say that only financial centers can provide world-class financial education, and Britain, with its high-quality university education, will inevitably become your choice to enrich your knowledge and eventually join the domestic financial community.
What deserves special mention here is ICMA (International Capital Market Association)-International Capital Market Association. Known as the "elite association" of the global financial community, this association is an institution that formulates industry norms for the international financial market and is also an industry association of the international securities market. The members of the International Capital Market Association include almost all well-known financial institutions in the world, such as Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse Group.
ICMA center
ICMA is the abbreviation of International Capital Market Association, which was established in 19 14. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, it is an institution that formulates industry norms for the international financial market and an industry association for the international securities market. At present, there are nearly 640 corporate members, distributed in 5/kloc-0 countries around the world, most of whom are global financial, securities institutions and investment companies. The realization of its function is not only not limited by the region, but also has an impact on the industry ideology. The members of the International Capital Market Association include almost all the well-known financial investment banks and institutions in the world, and most of the business transactions between members rely on electronic means to penetrate the global capital market. Therefore, as the central institution of the capital market, ICMA plays an inestimable role in globalization; And the height of the capital market it represents symbolizes the authority in the industry.
What does ICMA stand for?
Confidence and stability: According to the trading system established by ICMA, thousands of large securities investment transactions are completed among ICMA members every day. At present, all the rules and documents of securities and capital investment markets are formulated by ICMA to ensure the standardization and security of global transactions. Similarly, for traders, operating in a standardized market means the guarantee of confidence.
Strategic adjustment: ICMA's flexible space-As the core organization of gathering members, ICMA adjusts its system according to the changes of the market, making the transaction easier and more direct.
Knowledge dissemination: As an international authoritative organization, ICMA disseminates the most advanced international capital policies, making the global capital market more integrated and transactions more extensive.
Communication and network: As the leader of the capital market, ICMA provides a global network platform for its members to complete decisive trading strategies at a high level.
Other major business areas of ICMA Center include:
-Responsible for providing various professional training courses to member units and colleagues around the world.
-Providing specialized services to European investment banks and investment management institutions.
-participating in the "financial industry training program" project implemented by the British government.
Some famous member institutions of ICMA
ABN AMRO bank
American Express Bank Limited
Australia and New Zealand Bank Group Limited
AXA Investment Bank
Barclays bank
Barclays capital security Ltd.
BNP Paribas, Paris
Central bank of Zurich
Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Paris Industrial and Commercial Credit Bank
Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Co., Ltd.
Seoul daewoo securities co., ltd
dbs group
Deutsche bank Frankfurt
Fortis Bank of Brussels
London HBOS Treasury Services Limited
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
London ICAP Securities Limited
Ixis company. Paris investment bank
Union Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Merrill Lynch International, London
Mitsubishi UFJ securities international limited
Morgan Securities Limited
Morgan Stanley & amp International Limited
ICMA education and training strategy:
Founded in 199 1, the International Capital Market Association Center is located in the University of Reading in the UK. It started to recruit master students from 1994, and has now expanded to four master programs to recruit undergraduates. Invested by ICMA headquarters, the center cooperates with the University of Reading to run schools and conduct research, taking advantage of the specialty and advantages of the University of Reading in training management talents in banking and financial industries, aiming at training senior management talents in the financial industry. ICMA member institutions will give priority to graduates from the ICMA Center of the University of Reading. The center represents an original way of cooperation between international securities, investment and banks and key universities in Britain, which is unique not only in British universities but also in European universities. At present, because of its excellent academic level, it is considered to be an educational institution with financial majors all over the UK and a training base for international securities and investment professionals in Europe. At the same time, it is also the world's largest financial business school that trains master's and undergraduate graduates in international securities and investment. Most of its high-quality graduates work in ICMA member institutions and show their skills in their respective fields.
The ICMA Center of the University of Reading benefits from the strong support and close cooperation of the London Financial Innovation Research Center. London Financial Innovation Research Center selects senior financial experts from all over the world as visiting professors of ICMA Center every year. ICMA Center has incomparable teaching facilities and high-quality teachers in international securities management specialty compared with other universities in Britain and Europe.
The teaching staff of ICMA Center have been engaged in the financial industry for many years and have rich practical experience and academic achievements. Therefore, ICMA Center is a rare and ideal place for advanced training of British finance majors. The ICMA Center has the most advanced computer integrated system, which can collect and display the trading data of the world's major securities and futures markets in real time, so that students can simulate on-site stock, foreign exchange, futures and other transactions in the teaching simulation room, and can use unique software to simulate and analyze risk management and integrated system management. The special staircase classroom, which can accommodate 120 people, is equipped with the most advanced audio-visual equipment, which can show the work of real-time financial data system on the Internet.
The ICMA Centre of the University of Reading offers the following academic education courses:
-International Securities, Investment and Banking (Master of Science and Bachelor of Science) [Bachelor's and Master's degrees]
-Master of Science in Financial Risk Management [Master's Degree]
-Capital Markets, Regulation and Compliance (Master of Science) [Master's Degree]
-Investment Management (Master of Science) [Master's Degree]
When referring to ICMA, Mr. Zhu, an expert from Weijiu who studied in Britain, suggested to the students: "The ICMA Center of the University of Reading, together with Oxford University, Cambridge University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Imperial College London University, Warwick University and City University of London, is called the" financial troika ". Investment banks and stock exchange centers around the world give priority to graduates from these seven schools and go to these seven schools to recruit every year.
In addition, the ICMA Center of the University of Reading has a wide range of requirements for students' professional background, including students without any professional background such as science and engineering and social sciences. As long as you can prove that you have strong mathematical calculation and analysis skills, you can apply, and the probability of success is high.
Although the tuition fee is high, outstanding students still have the opportunity to apply for scholarships as high as 65,438+0,000, which is equivalent to two-thirds tuition fee reduction. Weijiu has helped students successfully apply for this scholarship.
Although the current financial crisis has affected the employment of financial majors, students who study risk analysis and control courses related to risk management have become a unique group and become talents needed by many financial enterprises in Britain. Judging from the first-hand information that Weijiu has mastered, undergraduates majoring in this major in British universities have been booked in advance by various enterprises before graduation. British universities have begun to encourage local students to choose risk management majors to replace the old financial courses such as accounting finance and money bank investment, which were all the rage a few years ago. Because ICMA application is popular at present, I hope that students who have this intention will apply quickly! "