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Kuwait Financial Markets Association is a professional association
representing the Treasury, Financial and Capital Markets
Industries together with their members. KFMA was founded
in 1977, under the name of Forex Club Kuwait, and now has
160 national members.
Kuwait Financial Markets Association is a member of ACI-The
Financial Markets Association founded in France in 1955
to bring together traders and dealers in the world's financial
centers. Today, ACI counts 24,000 members in eighty one countries.
It is worth while mentioning that Kuwait Financial Markets
Association is a founding member of ICA (Inter Arab-Cambist
Association) and plays a leading role in the Middle East
and Gulf region with the aim of enhancing the role of our
region within the larger view of ACI-The Financial Markets
Association.
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Major Aim: |
Educating our members to meet challenges that we face
in our fast evolving banking and financial markets,
to guide them to qualify for the ACI examinations
which compromise of three levels of exams administered
by ACI whose goal is to provide benchmarks for dealers
in the financial markets. It also provides support
to dealers covering what they should learn at several
stages of their careers.
Organize training programs and seminars to address
market issues. Our association is offering three to
four training courses and seminars a year.
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Our
Mission:
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Our
mission is to be regarded, within the business community
and financial services industry, regulatory authorities
and media as the leading association representing
the interests of the financial markets by actively
promoting the educational and professional interests
of our members and the market place. Our members
are financial market professionals who work in the
foreign exchange, money market, capital market and
derivative sectors of the Kuwait market place.
We
promote the professional and educational interests
of our members by strengthening the nature of the
Kuwait wholesale financial markets, communicating
timely information from local and global sources,
shaping global markets, supplying education programs
and seminars and organizing informative meetings
and events. As a strong, active and growing professional
association, we offer our members a variety of valuable
benefits. Further we aim to enhance our social activities
which provide a forum for dealers to meet and forge
important relationships that they could rely later
on in future business.
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Our
Objectives:
As an association for the individual, Kuwait
Financial Markets Association, will be an integral
contributor to the local financial market place
and the ACI movement by focusing on the following
key objectives:
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To
keep members informed of changes in the
financial industry and provide a forum
to discuss issues affecting the markets.
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To
provide feedback to industry and official
authorities on ways to foster the growth
of Kuwait as a financial center. |
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To
enhance educational value and working
knowledge of market professionals by
providing appropriate educational services
to those with a legitimate interest
in financial markets. Primary efforts
are geared towards helping members maintain
their relevance and skills as professionals.
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To cultivate
greater communication channels among members,
markets and other similar bodies to give
members the opportunity to widen their
market contacts.
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