SunGard Front Arena Academic Partnership Program

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Bridging the gap between theory and reality helps prepare students for their future careers. By offering selected institutions free access to Front Arena, our leading trading software, SunGard’s Academic Partnership Program adds value to students’ education.

SunGard Front Arena is used by market makers, brokers, risk managers and institutional asset managers to trade equities, fixed-income, interest rate derivatives and credit. It is the definitive solution for sales, trading, risk management, operations and distribution across multiple asset classes. Front Arena’s rich functionality and outstanding flexibility gives traders a competitive edge.

SunGard offers Front Arena access to selected universities free of charge. This gives students the chance to experience how a leading trading software application is used in the real world.

By using Front Arena, students will:

  • Learn how traders, risk managers, quants or back-office staff use systems in their day-to-day work.
  • See the connection between textbook theory and reality in the world of banking.  
  • Get an understanding of how risk is managed for different types of instruments.
  • See how a typical working environment might look like for a market maker or a trader from a trading system perspective.


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