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The Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), incorporated in March 2007, is the leading capital markets education, training and information resource in ASEAN. Formerly the training and development arm of the Malaysian Securities Commission established in July 1994, it was known as the Securities Industry Development Centre. The SIDC's objective remains to create investor awareness; raise professional standards; and enhance skills of Malaysian capital market participants as well as training and developing Malaysian and emerging market regulators.
For more than ten years, the SIDC has organized training programmes for Malaysian and foreign regulators, company directors and market professionals, conducted examinations for licensed market participants as well as successfully holding public investor education seminars on wise investing and investors' rights.
SIDC develops and facilitates training both locally and internationally through a range of programmes and activities, including conferences, seminars, and workshops supported by computer-based learning. In conjunction with the Securities Commission, it develops examination questions and modules, holds examinations as part of the licensing regime for Malaysian capital market intermediaries.