A corporate foreign exchange specialist with a strategic focus on helping its clients control the impact currency volatility has on their businesses, Alpha FX became a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange in 2017.
Launched in 2012 as a result of a merger between MMA Insurance and Provident, the company has won countless awards since and has its head office located in the Thames Valley – one of ten UK offices.
KPMG’s Reading office is one of the firm’s largest UK regional teams, employing more than 400 professionals and working with an array of impressive companies across the Thames Valley.
PwC work with clients from across the telecommunications, energy, utilities and biotechnology industries, and are the largest professional services organisation in the Thames Valley area.
Sanlam is an international financial services group that helps their clients manage and grow their money, employing over 500 people with one of their offices based in the Thames Valley area.
Founded in 1945, Henley Business School is a triple-accredited business school and part of the University of Reading. With campuses, offices and partnerships around the world, over 7,000 students from more than 100 countries and over 80,000 alumni from 160 countries it is a truly international institution. Their courses are enriched by up-to-date knowledge, research and commercial experience, and aimed at students and professionals at every stage of their career – from undergraduate through to postgraduate, PhD, MBA, DBA and executive education.
It is also home to the most extensive non-investment bank dealing room facilities in the world. As Europe’s first active collaboration between the securities industry and a University finance department, the ICMA Centre has built an international reputation over 20 years. Its mission is to deliver teaching and research in finance of the highest standard and contribute actively to policy debate.
Henley is among an elite group of business schools to be triple-accredited for the quality and capability of their faculty and output.
Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford blends the best of new and old. Founded in 1996, it is one of highest ranking business schools in the world, with a reputation for entrepreneurship and innovative business education. A young, vibrant and innovative business school, Saïd is deeply embedded in an 800-year old world-class university – and the number one in the world.
The Oxford Saïd Finance Lab is a joint venture between the Private Equity Institute and the University of Oxford. It is a tailored financial graduate training programme which is highly respected by financial services recruiters and senior finance professionals.
The Lab is a series of practical workshops on financial modelling and real-life case studies, connecting business plans with financial statements, structure, valuation, risks and investment returns. It offers students the occasion to understand key concepts, instruments and models required for finance courses and interviews. Applying theory-based learning from the programme and combining it with practical training, each workshop is followed by a networking opportunity with company representatives.