NISM has conducted a Masterclass on Global Financial Markets during February 10-11, 2016 at Hotel Fortune Select Exotica, Vashi, Navi Mumbai.

The programme was inaugurated by Mr. Sandip Ghose, Director, NISM. He has discussed in detail about the importance and necessity of training and need for conducting Masterclasses.

The Master Trainer of the programme was Dr. Sankarshan Basu,a faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in the Finance and Control area. Prof. Sankarshan has received his B.Sc. degree from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.Sc. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and has obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The key objective of the masterclass was to expose the participants to different facets of the markets and products that are traded in the markets as well as expose them to market functioning and inter-linkages amongst them. The participants were also shown some videos related to Financial Markets like ‘How Wall Street Works’, ‘How the Bond Market Works’, etc.

The participants for the programme were from different institutions like SEBI,RBI, NSE, BSE, LIC Nomura Services India Pvt Ltd, Barclays Securities (India) Pvt. Ltd., IDFC Asset Management Company Ltd., Credit Suisse and Religare Credit Advisors.

Mr. Jitendra Kumar, Member of Faculty, SRSS was the in-charge of the programme. He has apprised to the participant about the role and function of NISM. He also explained how NISM endeavours to provide world-class training, seminars and conferences for the Regulators, Banks, Exchanges, other financial institutions and market participants.

The valedictory address was delivered by Mr. Bazil Shaikh, Former Principal CGM, RBI. The participants were given Certificate of Participation at the end of the programme.