The South African Institute of Financial Markets (SAIFM) is a voluntary association registered as an NPO established to promote professionalism and integrity among members and the financial markets as a whole and is registered as a professional body in terms of the National Qualifications Act.
SAIFM offers the following services to members and other financial market participants:
• Setting the curriculum standards for its examinations
• Offering prescribed licensing examinations for the financial markets
• Monitoring members’ continued professional development
• Offering training workshops on select topics
• Vacancy alerts for positions in the financial markets to enable employers in
the markets to reach practitioners
• Holding an annual regulatory summit to highlight practitioners’ regulatory
responsibilities
• Enforcing the provisions of SAIFM’s Code of Conduct
• Offering two online journals to serve as platforms where members can
contribute, read and debate matters relevant to practitioners’ professional
roles
• Participating in regulatory discussions that may impact our members
To be the leading professional body providing educational and examination services for financial market professionals in South Africa and other African countries.
SAIFM will strive to be an institution of excellence of which participants in the financial markets are proud to become members, ascribing to the goals, standards, professionalism and integrity of the SAIFM, and to ensure that these aspects are also recognised and supported by existing financial sector institutions, regulators and employers.
To this end SAIFM will –
SAIFM is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of a representative from each of the following institutions: The JSE Ltd, the Financial Services Board, STRATE and the SA Reserve Bank. The remainder of the Directors are elected by SAIFM’s members from the ranks of fellows at each annual general meeting held in November of each year.
The business of the SAIFM is conducted and administered by full time staff at its office at Building 27 Ground Floor, The Woodlands Office Park, 20 Woodlands Drive, Woodmead, Sandton.