The Jordan Securities Commission (JSC), Amman Stock Exchange (ASE), and the Securities
Depository Corporation (SDC), collectively known as the “capital market institutions,” are
establishing an Institute for Financial Studies (IFS) (proposed name). In this endeavor, they
requested assistance from the USAID-funded Sustainable Achievement of Business
Expansion and Quality (SABEQ) program. Since SABEQ acknowledges the importance of
such an institute to the capital market industry, the following report includes assessment, key
findings and recommendations resulting from a training needs assessment to determine the
training programs offerings for the IFS.