ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): The Securities and Exchange
Commission of Pakistan (SECP), in collaboration with The Indus
Entrepreneurs (TiE), conducted its first ever awareness and
facilitation session for budding women entrepreneurs of Islamabad
at TiE Islamabad’s WECREATE center.
Women entrepreneurs, female students and fresh graduates
aspiring to become successful entrepreneurs and eminent charter
members of TiE attended the session, said a statement issued here by
the commission.
The session aptly titled `WE CREATE Talkies’ focused on guiding
attendees about company incorporation, its benefits and SECP’s role
in encouraging small and medium sized businesses.
The audience was apprised about basic requirements for
registering a business with SECP, requisite forms and applications
and allied formalities and licensing requirements.
They were also given information about SECP’s fast track
company incorporation facility to encourage incorporation with
the aim of eventually benefiting the overall entrepreneurial
ecosystem of Pakistan.
Khalida Haid, head of SECP’s investor education department
strongly encouraged attending women and young students to persevere
and achieve their goals and shared several success stories of
successful international and Pakistani women entrepreneurs of
tremendous net worth.