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:
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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