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Thailand Securities Institute (TSI) offers training courses specially designed to enhance the knowledge for practitioners in financial and capital markets. The main purpose of the courses is for attendants to gain thorough understanding and be well prepared for the licensing examinations. With extensive expertise and experience of TSI lecturers, program participants will gain necessary knowledge that does not only prepare them for the licensing examinations, but also is practical for their careers and daily lives.

Licensing Programs

Fundamental Knowledge of Financial and Capital Markets (FK)
Basic knowledge of financial instruments and investment analysis, basic information to be analyzed when making significant financial decisions, as well as overviews, roles, and work procedures for the financial market, including related laws and regulations.

Certified Marketing Representative: Equity (CMR: Equity)
Overviews, development, mechanism of and trading in the equity market. Introduction to general principles and valuation of the equity securities, work procedures for and methods of marketing representatives, related regulations, trading system, and different duties of organizations involved in the equity market.

Certified Marketing Representative: Debt (CMR: Debt)
Overviews, types, and significant characteristics of debt instrument, the nature of debt market and investment in debt instrument. Introduction to investment analysis, yield rates, and fluctuations in the debt market; as well as regulations and laws in relation to marketing representatives.

Certified Marketing Representative: Derivatives (CMR: Derivatives)
Fundamental knowledge of derivative instruments, definition and characteristics of each different type, the derivatives market, and investment in derivatives. Introduction to analysis of derivative instrument in different aspects, valuation, risk assessment, trading strategies, and practical usage of derivatives.

Investment Planner (IP)
Introduction to different kinds of funds, importance of fund literatures, investment objectives, risks, investment planning, customer awareness, investment strategies of management companies, as well as related laws, rules, and regulations relating to investment unit trading.

Certified Investment Advisor Representative (CIAR)
Allocation strategies for investment, characteristics of investors, contingent risk analysis, and investment planning.

Trader ID
Laws with respect to securities and the securities market, work procedures for members, related regulations of and work procedures for securities trading, and after-trading procedures.

Refresher Course
Intensive course for licensed marketing representatives of different types of instruments, investment planners, and certified investment advisor representatives, who wish to renew their licenses with the Office of Securities and Exchange Commission. Interested practitioners are required to complete this course one year prior to the expiration of their current licenses.

Criteria for License Renewal

• Renewal is to be made every two calendar years
• Refresher course certificate is valid for two year

The course is mainly involved in the current development or business trend, latest related notifications or regulations, ethics, including detailed analysis of special case studies or errors that occurred in actual practice and recommended solutions and prevention as guidelines.

Training Methods
Course attendants can conveniently choose to complete the licensing programs through one of these three options:

• Scheduled training sessions held by Thailand Securities Institute
• In-House training sessions especially offered by Thailand Securities Institute
• TSI e-Learning sessions

In-House Training

Thailand Securities Institute also provides the In-House training programs, especially designed to meet the demands of organizations which aims at training large numbers of employees. This program offers lower training expenses, saves travel costs, maximizes convenience for employees’ participation and allows greater flexibility for the organizations in monitoring employees’ examination records.

In addition, TSI offers arrangement for licensing examination after organizations completing the In-House training programs, thus enabling the organizations to maintain the examination data in an efficiently systematic manner.

Non-Licensing Programs
Thailand Securities Institute occasionally offers non-licensing programs for both industry practitioners and interested individuals. The programs involve knowledge of new products and renovation in the capital market. Sample non-licensing programs include:

• Options
• Structured Notes
• Investor Relations Training Program