Significant Training Win for AMT - March 2008

Adkins, Matchett & Toy (AMT) has announced the successful tender in Hong Kong for the Analyst Graduate Training Program for a top global investment bank.

This training program is one of the first of its kind to be run in the Asia-Pacific region and AMT is dedicating substantial resources to ensure the success of this pilot.

This programme continues the recent surge in demand for financial training in the Asia region. Many of AMT's top clients have in the past centralised their summer training programs in New York and London; more recently, regional training has become an attractive alternative for top firms with significant numbers of Asia hires. With a larger percentage of global investment banking business now sourced in Asia, AMT expects an increased demand for more regionally-based graduate training programmes.

In anticipation of this demand, AMT has been one of the first providers to commit to and invest in dedicated resources to service the region. An Asia team, led by AMT Managing Director, Anandhi Stanislaus, has been established to meet the demands of this growing market.

Anandhi Stanislaus said the decision to offer courses in Hong Kong was a natural decision based on the competitive market in the region and its growing influence.

She added: "We are responding to the needs of our clients, global investment banks whose operations have grown in recent years. We are also finding strong interest from other Asia-Pac banks, which serve the booming markets in the entire region."

She added that those attending the training courses would ultimately gain an advantage over other analysts, both in Hong Kong and other markets in the region.

She said: "These participants will have gain very strong, desk-ready, investment banking skills during this course. There is no question they will be sufficiently equipped to a level of competency to match analysts in other, significant markets."

"I believe the quality and overall standard of the analysts, coupled with the high-level training they will continue to receive, can only help them further develop the Asia-Pac market and strengthen its position in the region."

In addition to Anandhi, AMT has an instructor based in India and is actively recruiting instructors, content developers and client services staff in Asia-Pacific and India.

Part of AMT's Asia-wide strategy is to offer public courses across the region, building on the success of the public courses run in India last year. A second public course will be run in India in May and there will be another in Hong Kong in 2008.

Please continue to visit the website at www.matchettgroup.com for further information in the coming months. All information on this and all other upcoming public course can also be found here.

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For further information please contact:

Telephone: 01295 817 417
Email: ludo.morison@matchettgroup.com
Website: www.matchettgroup.com

Notes for editors:
Matchett, including Adkins Matchett & Toy, is a training and learning technologies services provider, with over thirty years' experience of providing enterprise-class learning solutions. A trusted advisor to leading UK and European organisations, Matchett offers executive development services, managed learning services,