NSE engages with students of JD Birla Institute in Kolkata

National Stock Exchange (NSE) had, on Friday, organised a seminar on capital markets at Kolkata's JD Birla Institute for its business management students. The move is part of the bourses on-going efforts to increase financial penetration in the country.

In a release issued by the exchange, NSE chief, business development Ravi Varanasi said, “While the exchange’s approach is to conduct awareness drives and launch courses for students in tier two and tier three cities, to upgrade their skills, NSE gives tremendous importance to conducting these activities in the Eastern and North Eastern region of India.”

In the seminar, the students of the institute got an overview of the exchange from speakers on capital markets, derivative markets and NSE's Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM). The students also learned about stock exchange structure, its operations, products traded on it, ways of safe investing, precautions to take while trading, mandatory and regulatory documents to executed between investors and brokersand so on. They also learned about NSE's NCFM certification which not only expands their knowledge base, but also improves their career prospects.

In the last one year, some of the prominent colleges and institutes of the city where NSE has conducted such seminars and programmes include St Xaviers College, Army Institute of Management, Bhawanipur Gujarati Education Society (College), ICFAI Business School and International College of Financial Planning.

Incidentally, NSE runs more than 150 centres in different parts of the country. The NCFM programme consists of different modules on topics like commercial banking in India, equity derivatives, market risk management, capital market, fixed income, debt markets, investment analysis and portfolio management, macroeconomics and banking and insurance.