The Capital Markets Advisory Council (CMAC) will train all professionals involved in the Initial Public Offer (IPO) processes in bond valuation and trading.

The one day workshop that will take place on August 3, 2010 at hotel laico Umubano targets industry professionals in the financial sector, media, law, accountants, public relations firms.

"The purpose of the workshop is to provide knowledge and assist the public and private companies the ways of accessing funds through debt markets,” said Olivier Kamanzi, the Deputy Executive Director of CMAC.

The workshop will provide and develop human skills capacity to industry professionals. 
Kamanzi also said that the workshop targets the public and private companies (issuers) expecting to raising new funds through bond issuance.

CMAC is also in collaboration with Project Umubano with financial professionals from United Kingdom to establish working relationship through workshops and seminars activities.

To implement this relationship, CMAC is working with these resource people to develop capital market in Rwanda.

"This partnership will assist the capital market to develop and build our human capacity and on the other hand the project umubano will achieve its mission which aims at understanding of the realities of life in Rwanda,” said kamanzi.

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