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AI-Enabled Financial Markets (AEFM)
Level 1

A foundation certification for AI in Financial Markets. Spend a Saturday honing your skills — start Monday morning with a working AI toolkit.

Format
OnlineLive · Instructor-led
Duration
1 DaySaturday · ~6 hours
Sessions
5 + Q&APlus MCQ exam
Credential
AEFM L1Certificate + Badge
View on IMT → Course structure
Why this

The next decade
asks for hands-on.

The professionals who win in the next decade will need more than theoretical and generic AI knowledge. They will need to be hands-on — and understand how to use AI in domain workflows, not lab demos.

AEFM Level 1 is built for working professionals in finance. It maps the AI landscape to specific roles, builds practical toolkits across analysis, valuation, advisory, and judgment, and grounds everything in the regulatory reality of Indian capital markets.

It is structured. It is certified. It is hosted and credentialed by IMT Ghaziabad's Centre for Financial Markets — one of India's premier institutions for financial markets education.

Course structure

Five sessions. One Saturday.

Each session pairs frameworks with case studies. Each ends with a takeaway you can apply Monday morning.

Session 01

AI Foundations
for Finance

  • 3-layer AI stack
  • RAG basics
  • India Stack data context
  • Claude vs ChatGPT vs Perplexity
Session 02

NLP & Document Intelligence

  • Earnings call analysis
  • SEBI filing extraction
  • Management commentary sentiment
  • Broker report synthesis
Session 03

AI-Enhanced Valuation & Screening

  • ML-driven factor screening on NSE
  • Factor investing & smart beta
  • Automated comparable company analysis
  • DCF stress-testing
Session 04

AI for Wealth Advisory

  • Suitability automation
  • Robo-advisory boundaries
  • SEBI RIA compliance
  • Client communication
Session 05

Responsible AI & Judgment

  • Hallucination detection
  • Model bias
  • Overriding AI output
  • Professional judgment framework
The professional capability you build

Map the AI landscape to your role · turn a 200-page annual report into a 2-page brief · screen 2,000 stocks in minutes · generate compliant client materials · know when to trust AI and when to override.

Who should attend

Built for the working finance professional.

  • Equity research analysts — sell-side and buy-side
  • Wealth advisors, RIAs, and Relationship Managers
  • Capital markets professionals — brokerage, AMC, PMS
  • Finance students preparing to enter the industry
  • Mid-career professionals upgrading to AI-native workflows
What you walk away with

A working toolkit, not a folder of slides.

  • Practical AI workflows for finance roles, ready Monday morning
  • A judgment framework for when to use AI — and when to override it
  • Regulatory context grounded in SEBI guidance and Indian capital markets
  • AEFM Level 1 certificate — LinkedIn-shareable, IMT-credentialed
Certification

From sessions to credential.

AEFM Level 1 is a structured certification — not just a workshop. The exam is online, MCQ-format, AI-proctored with secure exam browser. Take it at your convenience after the live sessions.

1

Five Live Sessions

Saturday intensive · 5 sessions + Q&A · roughly 6 hours total · live, instructor-led.

2

Online MCQ Exam

30 questions · 30 minutes · AI-proctored with secure exam browser · take at your convenience.

3

AEFM Level 1

Certificate + LinkedIn-shareable badge · IMT-credentialed · defensible signal of capability.

Register at IMT → Registration, scheduling, and payment handled by IMT Ghaziabad CFM

Instructors

Anjan Roy
Program Lead · Course Designer
  • Founder · WealthWisers
  • Author · Machines That Think. Systems That Judge.
  • Head · Data Governance & AI · Felicitas
  • 25+ years in enterprise tech & AI
  • 10+ years active market participant
  • NISM certified
  • IMT Ghaziabad alumnus, Class of 2000
linkedin.com/in/anjanr →
Dr. Harsimran Sandhu
Introduction & Keynote
  • Associate Dean · PGDM BFS · IMT Ghaziabad
  • Head · Centre for Financial Markets · IMT
  • 20+ years banking & financial services
  • 16 years at Standard Chartered Bank
  • Leadership team: wealth management, FX, branch banking
  • International Investment Committee (Standard Chartered global)
  • Published in International Journal of Bank Marketing, Economics Letters
linkedin.com/in/harsimran-sandhu →

About the partnership. AEFM Level 1 is a certification program designed by Anjan Roy and delivered through IMT Ghaziabad's Centre for Financial Markets, with Dr. Harsimran Sandhu delivering the keynote. Course architecture, content, and instruction are practitioner-led; institutional credentialing, scheduling, and certification administration sit with IMT.

AEFM Level 1 · IMT Ghaziabad

Stop guessing which AI tool fits which task.
Build the toolkit.

One Saturday. Five sessions. Foundation certification. Online · live · instructor-led · IMT-credentialed.

Register at IMT →

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