Financial Markets Training (FMT)

Global Markets Training

The word education is derived from the Latin educere. Although there are different interpretations, we at Financial Markets Training prefer the sense that education is a process “to draw out”. This goes against the expectation that training is simply lecturing – this is the traditional view that if you pour more content into people, verbally or electronically, they will improve.

We provide various training:

Commodity Derivatives

Corporate Finance

Credit Derivatives

Equity Derivatives

Fixed Income Derivatives

Foreign Exchange Derivatives

Financial Markets Securities Operations

Investment Management

Although some marketing pitches may focus exclusively on the trainer and his / her previous experience, our approach puts the learner of the centre of each class.

It is common to see many training providers argue that their sessions are ‘interactive’ whereas in reality this is nothing more than a soundbite with no real backing; often students experience a session that is heavily lecture-based.

What our clients think?

I would like to thank Neil for delivering exceptional technical training on wholesale financial markets. His expertise and insights were truly enlightening.

Excellent explanations and content for the areas covered

The trainer was very knowledgeable in the subject and made the course interesting

All of the course was enlightening. I liked having to apply what we were taught to different scenarios

Good class interaction as well being able to cope with different levels of experience

The case studies presented were a very useful aid to understanding the material

One highlight of the course was being able to listen to other people's explanations of the material from first hand experience

FMT makes extensive use of ‘peer instruction’ as part of the learning process. This method involves some element of information transfer by means of lecture but then the student is required to answer a concept question which will allow them to determine if they have truly understood how to apply the information presented. The basic approach is as follows:

Subject matter is introduced.
A concept question is posed.
Participants are given time to think.
Participants record their individual answers (anonymously).
When there is evidence of misunderstanding in the room, participants discuss the question with a neighbour.
Participants record a revised answer.
Tutor explains the correct answer.

FMT uses educational software which goes beyond the traditional ‘polling’ functionality that is used in online meetings.

The software allows for 16 different question types that include:

Sketching diagrams
Mathematical expressions
Text highlighting
Long answer
Short answer
Many choice
Matching
Multiple choice
Numerical
Priority
Ranking
Region
Word cloud

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Financial Markets Training offers a variety of finance training courses to institutions around the globe.