Impact’s new deal

The extended facilities was paid for by way of a £5 million donation from the ICMA, which provides graduate trainees, trainee-traders and any investment banking personnel, a hands-on experience that is both exciting and rewarding.

Impact has integrated all a-v over Cat5 at the site and has also provided a control system to manage the teaching environments. The rooms include dual projection in the dealing room and the theatre; PTZ cameras for lecture recording; Wolfvision visualisers; touch screen PC with white board functionality; customised TeamMate lecterns and Crestron control panels.

The 40 station flagship dealing room is a training centre for the traders of the future, and also enables academic staff to combine theory and practise across a range of activities including derivatives trading, portfolio management, risk management, financial engineering or corporate finance.

The room has a 37ft eight colour Daktronics ticker tape displaying market prices and four digital signage plasma screens with the latest news and quotes. Each of the students’ workstations has a PC and twin 19in monitors plus a telephone to allow students to immerse themselves in a trading environment.

To cater for the ICMA’s distant learning and flexible studies, Impact installed two Sony video cameras in each new room. The cameras are fitted at the back and to the side of the room to capture the lesson and the students’ interaction. The two short throw Sanyo projectors installed at the front of the room provide 6500 lumens of brightness onto a 150in fixed projection screen.

The executive training room, designed for smaller group sessions, is arranged with a modular table to allow a Harvard style-training room. The room has one projector and screen at the front. A Crestron control panel from where to manage the room, a Wolfvision visualiser and a tablet PC complete the equipment with whiteboard functionality.

The auditorium theatre at the ICMA has a capacity for 180 people, and has dual projection screens and a visualiser. All kit is controlled from a Crestron touch screen control panel in the lectern. The TeamMate desk has been specially designed to cater for the presenter’s needs, including variable height.