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In this category, the theme is ‘Trading contracts for difference (CFDs)’.CFDs are ways of speculating on financial markets that does not require the physical buying and selling of any underlying assets and financial instruments. CFD trading provides a platform to you to speculate on the moving up or declining prices of rapidly-moving global financial markets (or instruments) such as shares, indices, commodities, currencies, crypto currencies, bonds and rates, ETFs, Options and treasuries. CFD trading can be also used to hedge an existing physical portfolio.

Some of the benefits of CFD trading are that you can trade on margin, and you can go short (sell) if you think prices will go down or go long (buy) if you think prices will rise. CFDs are tax efficient in some countries.

If you are in your final year of any undergraduate degree program then you are eligible to participate on the above theme on CFDs.
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    Sunil Kumar CT
    Program Director - MSC Finance
    C.T. Sunil Kumar is senior academician in the area of Finance and Accounts with over 18 years of experience working in various international academic institutions of repute in UAE and currently working as the Program Director for MSC Finance as well as BA Accounting and Finance Programs for the University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.

    C.T. Sunil Kumar’s area of interest in research includes ‘exchange rate mechanism and economic development, oil price variation and its economic impact on GCC’, the role of current account deficit in currency value determination and has conducted extensive research and trainings in these domains.

    He holds an MBA with specialization in Finance from Mangalore University, MS in Consultancy Management from BITS Pilani and MPhil in Management from Madhurai Kamaraj University.
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    Nishi Joy (CMA, AFHEA)
    Lecturer, Accounting and Finance
    Ms. Nishi Joy, CMA – Ms. Nishi Joy is an academic teaching staff at the Faculty of Business Management at University of Stirling – RAK campus. She is an Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy – UK. She specializes in Accounting and Finance. She holds Masters in Finance from Heriot Watt University.