For the first time since its inception, the President and CEO of the CFA Institute, Paul Smith, CFA, is visiting Sri Lanka to recognise several key community service and public engagement initiatives undertaken by the CFA Society Sri Lanka.
Smith will attend several key advocacy and outreach initiatives conducted by the CFA Society Sri Lanka. The first of these will be the ringing of the opening bell to commence trading at the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) on July 31.
This will be followed by the official signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and CFA Society Sri Lanka to promote stakeholder consultations and best practices on governance.
The MoU is a key strategic initiative of the CFA Society SL to advance its advocacy and outreach objective of promoting fair and transparent capital markets and investor protection.
Smith will also launch the ‘Train the Trainer’ program in Sinhala, a collaborative initiative between the CFA Society SL and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to promote greater financial literacy.
The program which is to be conducted at the Centre for Banking Studies, auditorium, Rajagiriya on August 1 is aimed at improving financial literacy by empowering institutional trainers with know-how and training material to conduct public awareness and capacity building programs particularly in Sinhala and Tamil.
The training will be conducted by Ravi Abeysuriya.