February 15, 2013

NSE organizes conference with Delhi’s Indraprastha University on financial markets

India’s leading stock exchange, the National Stock Exchange organized a one day conference on emerging issues in the Indian financial markets at Delhi, on the 15th of February, 2013. The conference was organized in association with the University School of Management Studies (USMS), the department which runs management courses at the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIU) at Dwarka in Delhi. The conference was held at the campus of USMS and was attended by students from different colleges of the Indraprastha (IP) University in Delhi as well as faculty from colleges and Universities from different parts of India.

NSE has been playing a thought leadership role in the markets, through various initiatives and this conference is one such important initiative. The conference is also a step by NSE to bring industry and academia closer to each other, to help them play a symbiotic role in the markets.

NSE has a partnership with nine Universities or Institutions, to run post graduate and MBA courses in the financial markets. These include the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, Bharti Vidyapeeth University, Pune, Punjabi University, Patiala, NIFM, Faridabad, IIM Shillong, as well as GGSIU and others.

Head of Business Development at NSE, Mr. Ravi Varanasi said- “conferences like these help industry to understand how they can make post graduate courses on the markets more effective for students and also helps academia to understand how these courses can be taught through practical understanding and simulated environments’’.

Ms. Rana Usman, AVP & Head, Delhi Regional Office, National Stock Exchange, was the Guest of Honour along with Prof. Reena Aggarwal, Director, Georgetown Centre for Financial Markets and Policy, Georgetown University, Washington.

Professor D. K. Bandopadyay, Vice Chancellor, G.G.S Indraprastha University presided over the programme.

54 research papers, by faculty members of different universities, were selected for a presentation at the conference. Some of the topics that were covered included strategies to understand investor behavior, the impact of FDI and FII inflows in the markets, the corporate bond market etc.

Professor Anu Singh Lather, Dean, University School Of Management Studies, G.G.S Indraprastha University, Delhi said- “that there were four technical sessions during the day and deliberations on recent developments, issues and challenges in Capital Markets, Financial Services, Banking and the Regulatory issues in Financial Markets were covered.’’

The speakers at the conference were from the Mutual Fund industry, Banking industry, Capital Markets and SEBI.

At the conference, NSE officials spoke about its financial education initiatives and precautions that investors should take while investing.

At the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, the MBA course offered jointly by the University and NSE has been very well received and a large number of students are pursuing the course. They are getting theoretical training as well as coaching on simulated software, specially designed by NSE. This helps students develop investment and trading skills, which prepares them for jobs in the financial sector.

About NSE:

National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSEL), India’s largest exchange in equity and Equity Derivatives segments was established in the mid 1990’s as a demutualised electronic exchange by leading Indian Financial Institutions. NSE offers trading, clearing and settlement services in a range of products covering various asset classes namely equity, debt, derivatives on equity, currencies and interest rates. NSE provides a modern, fully automated screen-based trading system. NSE’s trading platform is connected to two lakh trading terminals, spread across more than 2000 towns and cities giving it an extensive reach. NSE has played an important role in helping reform the Indian securities market and in bringing about transparency, efficiency and market integrity.

NSE is ranked the world’s largest exchange in cash market trades, the second largest in index options and the third largest in index and stock futures.

NSE’s flagship index, the Nifty 50, is used extensively by investors and market participants in India and around the world, to take exposure to the Indian equities market. For more information about NSE, please visit: www.nseindia.com