FinTrU Trading Room
Since 2017, FinTrU has generously sponsored our Trading Room. The FinTrU Trading Room, which replicates New York and London trading environments, provides students with access to 26 Bloomberg terminals, trading simulations and other financial software.
The FinTrU Trading Room is embedded into taught programmes allowing students to relate real world news and market activity to economic and financial theory. The facility is also vital for supporting extra-curricular activities such as the CFA Research Challenge and Queen’s Student Managed Fund.
About FinTrU
Queen's Business School is delighted to have an established and multi-faceted partnership with FinTrU. FinTrU is a multi-award-winning employer with over 1,500 people across Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, London, Letterkenny, New York and Porto. The company’s wide-ranging expertise in KYC (Know Your Customer), Compliance, Risk and Legal enables the creation of technology-enabled Client Lifecycle Management solutions for leading global financial institutions.
FinTrU is a major employer in the Financial Services industry and actively recruits our graduates at Queen’s recruitment events for their annual best-in-class Graduate and Placement Programmes. Over the past few years, FinTrU has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies and was named in the 2023 Sunday Times 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the UK. Recent national accolades include ‘Employer of the Year’, ‘Best Place to Work’, ‘Best Employee Development Programme’ and ‘Company of the Year’.
School Visits
If you are a teacher who is interested in bringing your class to visit the FinTrU Trading Room, where your students will be able to investigate the stock and bond markets, analyse major companies, play a stock market challenge game and learn about the management school and career opportunities, then contact Gareth Campbell (gareth.campbell@qub.ac.uk).
The FinTrU Graduate Programme enables you to join with fellow graduates, where you will first learn about how FinTrU operates as a business in the world of financial services alongside professional soft skills training. Over the course of the two-year programme, you will work with the world’s largest investment banks as you receive world class training from market-leading experts. As a financial service analyst, you will train and undertake the CISI Investment Operating Certificate (IOC) – a globally-recognised qualification that provides you with a professional overview of the financial services industry.
Read more about the FinTrU Financial Services Graduate Programme
Each year, FinTrU recruits a number of students as part of our programmes with an integrated placement. On FinTrU's Placement Programme, you will spend 12 incredible months working alongside some of the world’s largest investment banks and learning how they help to protect the integrity of the securities market. You will gain experience of FinTrU’s award-winning culture with the opportunity to organise social events for your placement group. You will also have the opportunity to secure a job offer to return to FinTrU after your studies. This means you will fast-track your career by joining the second year of the graduate programme. FinTrU also provides our placement students with the opportunity to complete CISI IOC exams while employed for the company.
Read more about the FinTrU Placement Programme
