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RMI Hosts an Industry Talk for NUS MFE Students

3 November 2017

On 3 November 2017 RMI hosted a talk on, “Institutional Forex Trading – A Fintech Perspective” by Mr. Ting Song Ye. Mr. Ye is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spark Systems, which positions to be Asia’s first self-built professional e-FX trading platform. From the fintech startup point of view, Mr. Ye shared with the MFE students a special look into the world of electronic trading and the rise of Automated Trading Systems.

A veteran trader, Mr. Ye has worked for a quantitative FX macro fund in Hong Kong, JP Morgan in Singapore, and Barclays Capital and UBS in London. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

MFE Information Session

11 January 2018

On 11 January 2018, the NUS Master of Science in Financial Engineering (MFE) Program hosted an on-campus program briefing session for its August 2018 admissions. This information session featured a talk by Prof. Steven Kou, RMI Director and MFE Program Director, entitled “The Science of Money”. He shed insights into some of the key financial engineering topics like Kelly and Merton criteria, the binomial model for option pricing, and axioms for risk measures. The second half of the information session presented to the participants the program’s curriculum, faculty, students’ profile and job placement, among others.

The NUS MFE program, launched in 1999 and administered by RMI, offers a holistic curriculum that covers finance, mathematics, and computing with a practical orientation to solve real business problems. The admission for 2018 intake is open till 15 March. More information can be found at: https://rmi.nus.edu.sg/mfe-program/admission/.

FRM® Certification Training Program – January Intake

January 2018

On 6 January 2018 RMI welcomed another cohort of participants to join its Financial Risk Manager (FRM®) Certification Training Program. This program helps prepare professionals from the financial industry for the rigorous examinations in order to obtain the FRM® certification. RMI has successfully conducted this Program bi-annually since 2013 and prepared over 200 participants for the examination that takes place twice a year in May and November. The certification is globally recognized and administered by the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

With rapid and consequential changes happening in the financial services industry globally, professionals in related fields are seeing the growing need to demonstrate a globally standardized level of up-to-date industry knowledge, which is the foundation of the two-part practice-oriented FRM® examination. Given this the training course at RMI follows the FRM® curriculum closely and provides the certification training program in two parts with a total of four modules. Participants can choose from the complete course or individual modules that best fit their needs and schedule.

Registration for modules 2 and 3 is still open. More information on the program and the registration link can be found at: https://rmi.nus.edu.sg/training/certification-programs/.