OREANDA-NEWS. January 20, 2012. MICEX-RTS Group entered into a cooperation agreement with Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The agreement contained provisions on the cooperation in the areas of education, science and consulting aimed at training and retraining of managers and economists with any educational levels. The official agreement signing ceremony took place within the framework of Gaidar Forum 2012. 

The purpose of the agreement was creating an effective educational system for training of corporate specialists in accordance with the global best practices to provide them with knowledge, skills and culture necessary for managing capital flows in modern market conditions.

Within the framework of the agreement, the parties were intended to introduce targeted and practically oriented programs to train bachelors and masters with specification in exchange and off-exchange financial markets, i.e. stock, currency, derivatives, etc. markets as well as programs aimed at training highly skilled experts with PhD degrees in the area of on-exchange markets. In addition, the cooperation cover some other areas.

Signing the agreement, Ruben Aganbegyan, President and Chief Executive Officer of MICEX-RTS, said: "In December 2011 MICEX and RTS completed the merger of the two trading venues and now we are planning to enhance the company development process, improve markets characteristics, implement new products and services and participate actively in the development of the Russian financial market.  Highly experienced specialists are most in demand during the period of large scale changes".