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Bridging the Gap in Capital Markets: How Divento Academy Is Reaching New Talent
Traders Magazine Online News, November 24, 2017
At Trading Technologies, we are always in support of bringing fresh new talent, whether trader or programmer, into the trading industry. For example, we’ve created the TT CampusConnect™ program, which helps students from over 80 universities across 11 countries gain first-hand experience with trading software.
We also love seeing and supporting others who are creating their own initiatives. To that end, we’re very excited about Divento Academy, a new program that one of our clients, London-based Divento Financials, is spearheading.
Divento Financials is a proprietary trading firm that was founded in 2008. The company has swiftly become a starting point for many traders. A few years ago, James Sullivan, founder and CEO, and Robert Russell, director and head of business development, identified that a huge gap in training and education was obstructing the flow of new talent into the industry. There were numerous courses available online selling the FX dream and lucrative careers, but many of these offerings were of no real substance.
As a company, Divento wanted to remove traditional barriers in the market and find untapped talent—to take people without the traditional trading background or education and get them into financial services. To that end, James, Robert and their team decided to take on the initiative and bring their own courses to the public. And that is how Divento Academy was born.
The Academy offers a Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Financial Trading. The course is regulated on both the UK/EU qualification frameworks, meaning it is fully accredited, and offers in five weeks the equivalent of a two-year degree.
However, that doesn’t mean it’s a “cram session.” The Academy has three full-time trainers on staff, who have a combined 50 years of professional experience between them. The course is divided into three modules:
- Financial Markets & Operations
- Financial Asset Classes & Risk
- Financial Trading Techniques
These modules are designed not solely to produce traders, but also to expose students to other potential financial services careers, such as risk management. We’re proud that they use our TT® platform as the software to power these courses and provide students with real-world software experience.
“Using Trading Technologies’ tier-one trading software provided me with the opportunity to see what trading is really like, in real time, enabling me to enhance my ability to apply various technical trading strategies. This helped to bring everything together and provided me with a great advantage in my training,” says Sunna Firdaus, a recent Divento Academy student.
Firdaus, who is pursuing a master’s degree in aerospace engineering with “first class honours,” is participating in Divento Academy as part of a pilot program with her school, Kingston University.
Other Kingston students have also shared positive feedback about their experience with Divento Academy. “The road was tough, but the excitement each day brings, and being able to apply and use this knowledge with the help of the Trading Technologies trading platform, gave me the motivation to give it my all both inside and outside of the trading room, knowing all my decisions and plans were tested in real time by the market on a day-to-day basis,” says Daniel Bains, another recent Divento Academy student, who graduated with a bachelor of science in actuarial mathematics and statistics, with “upper second class honours.”
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