The South African Institute of Financial Markets (SAIFM) is a non-profit voluntary association established to promote professionalism and integrity in the financial markets.

To be the leading professional body providing educational, examination, and accreditation services for financial market professionals in South Africa and other African countries.

SAIFM will strive to be an institution of excellence of which participants in the financial markets are proud to become members, ascribing to the goals, standards, professionalism and integrity of the SAIFM, and to ensure that these aspects are also recognised and supported by existing financial sector institutions, regulators and employers.

To this end SAIFM will -

• provide learners with affordable, accessible professional assessments of high quality required by our stakeholders, while at the same time ensuring that these will be aligned to the ideals and goals of the National Qualifications Framework;
• provide members and others involved in the financial markets with credible and value-added continued professional education (CPE) initiatives;
• provide stakeholders with top quality services in terms of member administration, registered persons examinations, and handling of assessments for licensing requirements.

SAIFM is governed by a Board of Governors consisting of a representative from each of the following institutions: the Financial Services Board, the Bond Exchange of South Africa, STRATE and the SA Reserve Bank while the JSE Ltd has two representatives. The remainder of the Governors are elected by SAIFM’s members from the ranks of fellows at each annual general meeting held in November of each year.

The business of the SAIFM is conducted and administered by full time staff at its office at Building 18, The Woodlands Office Park, Western Service Road, Woodmead.

SAIFM is registered as an assessment site at FASSET. SAIFM’s operations, assessments and moderations are conducted in accordance with a Quality Manual and subject to quality audits by FASSETQA and independent verification audits.