The design and development of The Cline Group training courses began with a series of observations. In-house capital markets training was difficult and expensive to develop, deliver, and keep current. Existing commercial training was mired in an academic, definitional approach and lacked any sense of the commercial marketplace- often the source of innovation in the financial markets. Commercial training courses were focused on the past and not the future, lacking any real industry metrics on trends that lead to insights into future innovation. Commercial course offerings often used guest instructors of inconsistent quality, frequently sponsored by vendors promoting their own agenda. Despite these challenges and deficiencies, every capital markets industry survey cited a company's investment in its people's professional development as either the 1st or 2nd most important criteria for staff retention and morale.

We recognized the void in the market and had a vision for how to develop a more effective, pragmatic learning experience.

Every Cline Group course was developed and is taught by entrepreneur and long time Accenture Capital Markets global industry managing partner Bill Cline. Completely new and custom content was created specifically for our training courses that reflect the experience of a 25 year career of leadership and innovation in the global financial markets. To maximize the structural and operational insights necessary for effective learning, we give course participants plenty of industry facts and metrics to substantiate conclusions and foster a view to the future. In doing so, we make extensive use of industry research provided by leading financial markets research and analysis firm Aite Group and select organizational bodies such as the World Federation of Exchanges.

We offer a regularly scheduled 2.5 day course, Challenges, Differentiation, and Innovation In Financial Markets, that spans the sell side and buy side industry landscape from the front to back office. These scheduled courses alternate between New York City and Charleston, SC and combine effective learning with group and social interaction. This course is also offered for single companies and are scheduled at locations worldwide including capital markets outsourcing hubs such as India and Eastern Europe- where surveys show professional development is even more important than compensation to mitigate fast rising attrition rates. In addition, we offer a series of 4 hour deeper dive courses into specific topics that most embody competitive differentiation and operational excellence in the financial markets, also scheduled at locations of your choosing worldwide.

To learn more about any of The Cline Group training courses and to view curriculums and course outlines, please click on the course links below:

The importance of effective professional development to job performance and satisfaction is more important now than ever, and in no industry more so than the global capital markets. The Cline Group is committed to maintain and deliver cost effective learning excellence for the capital markets industry.