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The Securities & Investment Institute (SII) is for the first time ever launching its suite of qualifications in Pakistan. The SII, the membership body for those who work in the securities and investment industry, has launched its Education Programme for the Capital Markets with the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) as part of the KSE's Education Programme for their Capital Market Participants. Taster training sessions were made available recently, run by one of the SII's Accredited Training Providers, the College of Accounting and Management Sciences (CAMS) in Karachi. The launch follows a series of roadshows and presentations to leading broking, investment houses, banks and universities which the SII has been offering over the past month with CAMS and its other training providers, USM and IFIS. The SII's accredited training providers in Pakistan have begun offering face-to-face training courses to the Capital Markets for the SII's Risk Management, Certificates in Securi

KARACHI: Structured Solutions (SS) has agreed to cooperate with the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in marketing Pakistani indices outside the country. Structured Solutions will market KSE indices abroad, especially in Western Europe, to find potential licensees who are willing to launch structured products, ETFs (exchange-traded funds) and other financial products, stated a KSE statement issued here on Tuesday. The cooperation is based on marketing of existing indices calculated by the KSE and Index Development, and marketing of new indices which will be tailor-made for investment banks to launch structured products and other financial instruments. Structured Solutions AG is a leading consulting company in the structured product business in Germany and Western Europe. It provides structured products for institutional investors and has a joint venture with Boerse Stuttgart AG, one of the largest derivative trading platforms, concerning the index platform S-BOX.