Date of Release: June 29, 2015

The Second National Securities Practitioners Qualification Exam 2015 was successfully held in 39 cities across China from June 27 to 28. The Exam was sponsored by Securities Association of China (SAC) and co-organized by ATA. Throughout the process, ATA provided professional testing services including registration, testing technology, test delivery, test center monitoring, test result processing, and data analysis.

Since early 2015, China’s stock market has witnessed a spectacular boom with an exciting “bullish” trend, triggering an investment mania by people from all walks of life in stock trading. On top of that, substantial progress in Internet finance and mixed operations of financial industry has greatly boosted the strong demand of securities industry for qualified and competent professionals. As such, securities and its related sectors have become one of the most favored practices for job-seekers. Driven by demands from both employers and the employed, the Securities Practitioners Qualification Exam, the only authoritative certification for practitioners in securities industry, reached a new record high of the last three years in June 2015 in terms of the number of exam-takers. Meanwhile, many people are applying to take the multi-session appointment-based tests held across the country. Each year, SAC organizes four sessions of National Securities Practitioners Qualification Exams and seven sessions of Securities Practitioners Qualification Appointment-based Exams, which have satisfied the needs of candidates for registration.

In recent years, China’s securities industry has experienced rapid growth, arising from a long boom of capital market due to economic transformation. The incremental capital due to the transfer of residents’ assets is linked with the incremental project resources brought by the registration system in the capital market. “The expansion of the stock market + improving market mechanism” provide basis for the long boom of capital market in the future. The industry policy has also created more business opportunities. On one hand, the relatively loose industry policy over the recent years has enhanced business innovation of brokers. On the other hand, relaxing restriction over the risk control indicators of brokers and encouraging them to raise fund through equity and creditor’s right have helped significantly increase the ROE of brokers.

The rapid development of securities industry has further stimulated the strong demand of the industry for qualified securities practitioners. Many securities-based financial institutions begin to recruit a great number of  professionals in financial sector, in the form of campus-based recruitment exams in China targeting the graduates and selection of overseas talents. In June 2015, Southwest Securities, as the only nation-wide comprehensive securities company based in Chongqing, held its Campus-based Recruitment Exam 2015 jointly with ATA to attract more excellent financial talents to join the company.

Securities Practitioners Qualification Exam is a nation-wide test organized by SAC, and the only securities qualification exam recognized by the employers and the general public. A credential necessary for the practitioners to get a job in the securities industry, securities qualification is also considered an important reference tool for the workers to join non-securities companies, such as banks, non-banking organizations, listed companies, accounting companies, investment companies, large business groups, financial media, and economic divisions under government authorities. Moreover, securities qualification demonstrates an individual’s financial quotient (FQ), and is used as a knowledge tool to make a profit from investment. For this reason, securities qualification is recognized as a vocational certificate with the highest value in securities and even the whole financial industry. The Securities Practitioners Qualification Exam, considered as a stepping stone to success in high-and-new-technology industry, has won the favor of many ambitious youth due to the equality and fairness of the exam.

According to the schedule of SAC, the registration for the third National Securities Practitioners Qualification Exam and Appointment-based Exam 2015 will open soon. Candidates who are interested in taking the exam can visit the official website of SAC (www.sac.net.cn) to learn more about and register for the exam online.

(If there is any inconsistency or conflict between the English and Chinese version, the Chinese version shall prevail.)