Dealing Rooms
The ICMA Centre provides three dealing rooms to complement theoretical learning. In 1994, a 20 terminal dealing room was opened and then on completion of the new building in 1998 a further two dealing rooms (Reuters I and II) opened with 62 workstations running the latest Reuters products – 3000 Xtra and the new Reuters Traders product. These are complemented by the Bloomberg terminal, which provides an ideal tool for fixed income research.
Research and project work are further supported by economic and financial data from Datastream, ICMA and other sources and a host of analytical, mathematical and statistical software. Reuters I also features a plasma screen displaying live market prices and news.
The ICMA Centre is the largest non-investment bank Thomson Reuters populated facility in the world, having a total of 112 workstations, which is the size of a medium sized investment bank's dealing floor.
These rooms are not merely training centres for traders of the future; they enable staff to combine theory and practice across a whole range of activities, whether in derivatives trading, portfolio management, risk management, financial engineering or corporate finance.
The dealing rooms are also used for a wide range of computing work throughout the programmes, including Excel spreadsheet modelling, Monte Carlo simulation, financial econometrics and sessions on market microstructure.
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