Epitrain was able to scope and produce a game for us that has both entertainment and educational value for the game participants.

We had a very positive experience working with them, and they did a great job integrating our desired learning outcomes through meticulous game design.

Throughout the entire process, they were continually attentive to our needs and really went the extra mile to create a top-quality product that exceeded our expectations.

They absolutely delivered the kind of experience we were looking for in a game, and we highly recommend Epitrain for their Bespoke Gamification services.

CHRISTIAN CHUANG | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS

We have had the privilege and pleasure of working with Epitrain since 2016, where they have been our key learning partner and facilitator for the core induction programme for our new employees – The Exchange Simulation programme.

It has been the highlight of our new joiners experience, due to the highly experiential approach of the delivery methodology. Many of our participants have provided positive feedback about the structure and content of the programme and favourable reviews about the highly engaging and energetic facilitation style.

Epitrain’s highly collaborative and consultative approach has helped us to evolve and improve the new joiners programme over time through an iterative approach, which led to better learning outcomes for all our employees.

I would highly recommend Epitrain for their professional approach towards making learning fun and engaging.

JOHN ONG | HEAD OF LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT, SINGAPORE EXCHANGE

As an Economic History graduate fresh out of university in my first job, Epitrain provided me with comprehensive and effective training, which enabled me to understand the fundamentals of the financial markets.

The effectiveness of their training was exceptional due to the range of hands-on activities that galvanised my knowledge and application of financial concepts. The activities conducted during training by Epitrain were challenging yet extremely engaging – they also helped hone my skills and correct any misconceptions I had about the financial markets.

Epitrain sessions are structured, though there is always room for flexibility depending on the direction of the discussion. The flexibility, coupled with an open environment, made me feel comfortable asking questions of all levels.

Apart from their unique trading simulations, I believe another one of Epitrain’s core competencies lie in their quality of trainers. Gerard, our trainer was able to relate our questions to his own experience and explain complex concepts with great clarity.

With no prior background in finance, I was able to attend an advanced options session and understand and engage in it after going through basic training by Epitrain. This is testament to Epitrain’s robust competency in imparting finance knowledge regardless of their trainee’s prior experience.

TAN MAN YUN | TANGENT APPRENTICE, DYMON ASIA CAPITAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD

Epitrain was an ideal partner to work with for Dymon’s Tangent Apprentice formal training phase. They listened to Dymon’s needs and were able to customize a training programme to suit our requirements and timing. As an IBF approved trainer, working with Epitrain allowed us to receive training cost subsidies from the IBF which helped keep costs low. Gerard was a great teacher and mentor to his 8 trainees, teaching in a way that was easy for the cohort to understand and absorb. He also kept in close contact with the Tangents post training phase to see how they were getting along, showing care and dedication as their teacher and mentor.

KENNETH KAN | CHIEF OF STAFF, DYMON ASIA CAPITAL (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD

The theoretical knowledge I acquired by taking up the course Financial Markets and Technology helped me enrich my financial domain business acumen on capital markets, trading life cycle, risk management and algorithmic trading. The live scenarios highlighted during the classroom discussion helped us to understand the subject better. The most important aspect of the course was the Epi-Trade® LIVE Simulation which helped us map the theoretical knowledge taught in class with its practical implication. We had a demo trading session during the class-room session which gave us a broader picture of what is the underlying logic behind a stock exchange. Questions such as how we trade, when to put a stop-loss order, how to arbitrage, when do investors make loss/gain, what is market depth and many more such questions became clearer. The Epi-Trade® LIVE System was indeed helpful and it behaved as an exact replica as a stock market. The system was very efficient and could handle live trading for approximate 50-70 people. We could easily trade without any glitches in the trading process in a time bound manner. It is highly essential to enhance your domain skills and on the same time apply into your practical working sphere. The Financial Markets and Technology course helped me achieve this. It is due to the enrichment in knowledge by embarking on this course that I could get a full time opportunity and work in one of the big-4 consulting firms in Singapore in Financial Advisory Domain. I would highly recommend the use of Epi-Trade® LIVE and to take up Financial Markets and Technology course if you want to have a long-term career in financial services domain.

SUNIL PANIGRAHI | SENIOR ASSOCIATE IN FINANCIAL ADVISORY

I profoundly enjoyed Gerard's course Financial Markets and Technology. The course was designed in a very interactive, knowledgeable, fun and hands on manner. I felt encouraged to ask questions at any point, and challenge Gerard's lessons - which I greatly appreciated.

The theoretical knowledge gained in the course was emphasized with a practical simulation of financial markets. The Epi-Trade® LIVE sessions helped me understand the technicalities and dynamics of modern trading. I was personally stunned at how theoretically easy concepts can in practice be much more difficult than anticipated. The Epi-Trade® LIVE sessions added a real touch to the theoretical knowledge I have been accumulating throughout my studies. They gave me a glimpse of how things work in reality. At the same time the sessions helped me see the difficulties that are attached with electronic trading such as 'fat fingers' which in theory sounds funny, yet in practice becomes an evident issue.

DANIIL PERETS | FULL-TIME STUDENT, MASTERS IN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING

The Epi-Trade® LIVE workshops conducted in the Financial Markets and Technology course gave me an excellent opportunity to play the role of a trading party in a simulated, real-time financial trading environment. The Epi-Trade® LIVE platform that Epitrain has built allows both the participation of human traders and algorithmic trading engines, lending me an insight into the mechanics and challenges of trading operations and considerations that no amount of words and lectures could effectively communicate. It's a fully engaging experience - the sense of competition between myself and my course mates naturally kept everyone engaged, and it was satisfying to see how the leader board (of best and worst earners) stacked up at the end of the (simulated) trading day. Although the preparation of our algorithmic trading application was gruelling, the environment and simulated scenarios were salient enough for me to appreciate the challenges of this style of trading and take away a very unique experience. All in all, the entire Epi-Trade® LIVE experience re-ignited my interest in how technology drives the smooth functioning of financial markets and continues to evolve their very nature, giving me a renewed appreciation of the importance of the work that I do and inspiring me to acquire even more skills and knowledge to embed myself even deeper in the world of financial technology.

JOEL NG | DATA ENGINEER, GIC PTE LTD

I have spent many hours trying to learn how to trade like the professionals by reading books and listening to practitioners. However, nothing compares to the hands-on experience with Epi-Trade® LIVE. It is so vivid and eye-opening that the mechanism how the market functions and trading involving front-, middle- and back-offices flow sticks with me. Gerard’s in-depth instruction and the Team’s patient guidance in walking us through Epi-Trade® LIVE is just impressive. Great job! Thank you, Team!

WANG ZHIFENG | QUANTITATIVE ANALYST - CREDIT RISK GOVERNANCE, MIZUHO BANK (SINGAPORE)

During the training, we had the chance to use Epi-Trade® LIVE which brought experiential learning to the table, and it was from this experience that I was truly exposed to the markets in a controlled classroom setting. The experience brought the markets to life right in front of our very eyes, and allowed participants to be placed in the shoes of the market participants, who had to make crucial, time-sensitive decisions daily. Being able to understand the theory after it was taught was inorganic, but the experience of attempting to employ the theories into practice on Epi-Trade® LIVE and watch them either fail or succeed was organic, and is an experience irreplaceable by textbooks.

Epi-Trade® LIVE was instrumental to giving me a hands-on feel of the fundamental drivers of the financial markets. It particularly solidified my understanding of the trade lifecycle and processes, which is highly relevant in my job today as an IT Consultant for Private Banks. Having attended the course and the Epi-Trade® LIVE sessions, I could easily and rapidly understand the business requirements of the Private Banks and translate them into IT specific requirements, thereby improving my productivity, and increased my effective contribution to the projects of which I have am part of. During a project, the rationale for making certain decisions became clear to me, which would not have been, had I not gained an understand of the Business user’s motivations and interests, which are in ways different from that of the IT users. After attending the course, the greatest benefit was the sheer amount of industry knowledge and practical experience which are relevant and applicable to my job.

LAU CHEN LIN | CONSULTANT (PRIVATE BANKING), NIELSEN+PARTNER

Want to know how traders think and act? Look no further, Epi-Trade® LIVE gives you the total experience of a trader. I am currently supporting back-office in a financial institution and always wanted to know the ins and outs of being a trader. Epi-Trade® LIVE gives me this opportunity to learn and understand what the trader thinks when the market is moving and most importantly, the decisions to make, to ensure you have the best bid/ask price. The course Financial Markets and Technology provided me with the fundamentals of how trading works from the point of entry (trade propose) to exit (clearing and settlements). This helps me a lot in my area of work as it provides with me the full spectrum and knowledge of the trade’s life-cycle. Epi-Trade® LIVE and the courses helped me to step up and propose areas of improvement in the workflow process, as well as allowing me to appreciate why certain actions are done in a certain way.

THAM YONG XIANG | SENIOR IT ANALYST, GIC PTE LTD

I took the course Financial Markets and Technology with the goal of preparing my career in the financial sector. Not only did the trainer Gerard enrich my knowledge in financial markets, he challenged me to think and reason from many different perspectives. Furthermore, Epi-Trade® LIVE is a great platform to put theory into practice in a safe environment. I must say that learning through Epi-Trade® LIVE has helped me in my career as I am now better able to understand different situations, react, and provide solutions. These skills that I learned from Financial Markets and Technology have definitely kicked started my career in the financial sector in a positive way.

ANDY TENG | IT PROJECT ANALYST, CREDIT SUISSE AG

I had a chance of take part in the Epi-Trade Simulation as part of my Master course in Financial Technology at Singapore Management University. Even for a professional with 10 years of experience in Derivatives Market Operations and Trade Surveillance, I still found the simulation very unique, insightful, thought-provoking and fresh in ideas. I developed deeper understanding of the technical analysis, market force movement, trading concepts, and interactions between front, middle, and back office processing. After the simulation, I find myself more agile, faster and natural in my thought process when it comes to explaining, conversing, and applying trading techniques. This is possible because of the simulator’s clever mechanism, in which there are continued and fast-paced injections of news and other event with practical and sensible impacts. At times released in incremental instalments leading up to an explosive event, other times hitting the scene without prior notice, requiring participants to interpret and react immediately, these stimuli made for a very realistic and engaging session. The participants are, therefore, inspired to think deeply for their actions and the consequences. There was also an involvement of a Central Bank (which I would not spoil the secret on what they are doing) making the market activities very real, practical and exciting. Last but not least, the final important factor for success is the facilitator, Mr Gerard Tong, who is very knowledgeable and experience in this field, conducting the session in a very engaging manner.

TOM VO THANH TRUNG | VICE PRESIDENT, DERIVATIVES OPERATIONS

Learning about financial markets and trading in theory during lectures is one thing, having a near-real interactive fun market game to see how you interact with markets is a totally different thing. I gained a lot of insights from the experience with Epi-Trade® LIVE during the Financial Markets and Technology course. Starting as a Financial Services consultant for the biggest financial technology company in the world, advising around our (electronic) trading solution I am sure I gained an edge over other candidates by having a better understanding of trading through Epi-Trade® LIVE. It also helped me a lot to understand the fundamentals of trading, and I have been able to leverage this understanding into my daily work. I am very happy I had the chance to learn so much while having so much fun. It's like a sandbox where you can learn and do your mistakes before you go and make mistakes in the real life.

ANDREAS VON HIRSCHHAUSEN | FINANCIAL SERVICES CONSULTANT, FIS GLOBAL

The training was conducted in a lively and interactive manner, but more importantly, the trainer Gerard is extremely adept at explaining abstract concepts in a way that is easy to understand. The Epi-Trade® LIVE platform is also an excellent tool that provides a good overview of the financial markets through hands-on participation. The admin and support team was very proactive and friendly throughout the entire engagement, and I highly recommend Epitrain’s training services!

CHANG SEOK KHIM | HEAD OF DEALING, ARISAIG PARTNERS