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Rating Agency Malaysia Berhad ("RAM")
RAM is an affiliate of Standard & Poor's and the Chairman of the Training Committee in
the Association of Credit Rating Agencies in Asia (ACRAA). As the country's trailblazer in credit rating, RAM was entrusted with the responsibility of
educating the Malaysian capital market about bonds, a relatively new and alternative form of
financing in the country at that time.
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The aim was towards developing a knowledgeable and sophisticated bond market in Malaysia.
RAM pledged its commitment towards this entrusted role of market
educator on bonds by committing significant time, financial and human resources in cultivating an enlightened and
savvier debt capital market. Careful research was done continually to assess the educational
needs of the market.
Relevant trainings and workshops were conducted regularly for RAM's rating clients and their
advisers, professionals, directors and investors alike to meet those needs. Thus, the birth
of RAM's Training Division to ensure focus and the highest quality in deliverables as
validation of RAM's dedication in developing an informed and sophisticated bond market in
Malaysia.
Today, after more than a decade of being in the training business, coupled with its 16 years
of credit rating experience, RAM's Training Division has conducted more than 1,000 workshops
and seminars and has trained over 20,000 participants.
Training programmes conducted by RAM Training do not focus solely on enhancing the technical
skills of professionals but are also aimed at reinforcing and enhancing values of professionalism,
integrity and creative thinking amongst the participants.
The core of RAM's vocation in training is to develop human capital equipped for the impending
challenges and opportunities of globalisation in the 21st century.
For further information on the training programmes provided by RAM, enquiries may be directed to:
Padthma Subbiah
Tel: +603-7628 1762
E-mail: padthma@ram.com.my
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Platinum Sponsor |
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New York Mercantile Exchange
The New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., is the world's largest physical commodity futures
exchange and the preeminent trading forum for energy and precious metals.
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The Exchange has stood for market integrity and price transparency for
more than 135 years. Transactions executed on the Exchange avoid the risk of counterparty default because the
NYMEX clearinghouse acts as the counterparty to every trade. Trading is conducted in energy, metals, softs, and
environmental commodity futures and options via the CME Globex© electronic trading system, open outcry,
and NYMEX ClearPort©.
NYMEX pioneered the development of energy futures and options contracts in 1978 as means of bringing price
transparency and risk management to this vital market.
NYMEX provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, electricity,
propane, coal, uranium, environmental commodities, softs, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, platinum, and palladium.
Many different types of options are also available for most of these products, including options on the price
differentials between crude oil and its products (crack spreads), various futures contract months (calendar spreads),
and European- and Asian-style options. In addition to its benchmark, physically-delivered products, NYMEX also
offers financially settled full-sized and NYMEX miNY™ contracts.
The NYMEX ClearPort© clearing system helps the marketplace mitigate counterparty credit risk by processing
off-exchange transactions through NYMEX's clearinghouse in the same manner as the Exchange's core futures contracts.
Each day, hundreds of thousands of transactions in more than 400 energy markets are cleared through the NYMEX
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