ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Friday propelled its new completely included bilingual (English and Urdu) site to give speedy and powerful data to open, financial specialists and partner. “We believe that this new site will allow our visitors to have a very informative experience as we continue to grow and assert our regulatory authority,” said the SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi in a statement issued here.
The new site has a perfect, uncluttered outline, enhanced usefulness and improved rich substance concentrated on the SECP’s main goal to encourage the advancement of cutting edge and effective corporate segment and capital business sector, taking into account sound administrative standards.
The website has extensive content related to formation of a new company, licensing regime for profit organisations, capital markets, insurance and non-banking financial companies, latest market data and information and complete range of laws, rules, regulations that the SECP governs. Besides, the latest notifications, circulars, directives enforcement action and orders of the Appellate Bench could be seen on the website.
Furthermore, the visitors can lodge complaints online, search /verify registered companies and log in to the SECP’s eService, Virtual One Stop Shop (VOSS) and Jamapunji portal.
The bilingual website is in accordance with SECP’s policy to implement Urdu as its official language. The Urdu section of the website provides comprehensive information on company formation, compliance requirements, licensing procedures and Urdu versions of laws, rules, regulations and guidebooks.
It is worth mentioning here that the SECP has translated all of its laws, except the Companies Ordinance 1984, which is being replaced.
The website layout is compatible with all types of browsers and mobile devises and is integrated with social media i.e. Facebook and Twitter.