Two Bermudian students are making their way up the ladder after successfully completing the Bermuda Monetary Authority’s Graduate Training Programme (GTP).Treasa Walker and Vashun Blanchette are the BMA’s first graduate trainees to complete the three-year programme. Now that they’ve completed the programme, they will be offered full-time employment as analysts for the BMA.Their achievements were celebrated at a graduation this week at BMA House.“It is with great pleasure that we today mark Vashun and Treasa’s success as our first GTP graduates and the beginning of the next stage of their careers at the Authority,” said BMA CEO, Jeremy Cox.“The outstanding qualities of these two young Bermudians have been readily apparent over the last three years, including during their external secondments locally at HSBC Bermuda and Conyers Dill & Pearman and overseas at the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Switzerland and in Hiscox UK in London. We thank these industry partners for their support for the programme and the graduates.”Started in 2008, the BMA launched the GTP, which sees trainees offered a personalised work track that supports their area of interest, paired with an executive mentor, rotated through supervisory departments and sent on local and international secondments. There are currently six trainees in the programme.“In order for Bermuda to continue having first league regulation, we also need to have knowledgeable Bermudian regulators,” Mr Cox said. “This is what we were trying to achieve when we started the GTP. The GTP along with robust recruitment and succession is helping the Authority toward achieving this goal.”