Industry members attend finance networking event

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Monday 19 December 2016

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Coventry University London Campus hosted an engaging finance network event at University House this November welcoming key members from professional finance bodies to deliver guest talks.

Organised by Dr Peter Ye, Principal Lecturer in Finance, the event welcomed over 50 guests from the finance industry. Amongst those attending, were Peter Hafez (Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack), Philip Lovelace (Head of Academics, EMEA, S&P Global Market Intelligence), Dr Lisa Ponti (Vice President - Academic & Regulatory Outreach, GARP) and Louise Holden (Senior Manager, Professional Development, Finance and Accounting, Wiley) all who offered their expertise through a 20 minute talk on an specific area of finance.

Guests were invited to engage with the guest speakers through regular question and answer sessions throughout the event. In addition, all guests enjoyed the opportunity to network through a morning network session and buffet lunch.

Coventry University London Campus offers a number of Accounting and Finance programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. At undergraduate level students can choose from BA (Hons) International Finance and Accounting and BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance for International Business (top up), with both programmes offering exemptions from ACCA.  At postgraduate level, students can select from a range of MBA and MSc programmes including MBA Global Financial Services, MSc Global Financial Trading, MSc Global Finance and MSc Professional Accounting.