KARACHI, May 29: JS Global Capital has finalised an agreement with Mubasher of Dubai, by virtue of which JS Global clients would have access to online trading options on the Karachi stock exchange and subject to regulators approval, the Dubai Financial Market and Abu Dhabi Securities Market from their home.

“The inclusion of the Dubai and Abu Dhabi markets would make the JS Global platform the first multi-exchange online environment in Pakistan offering the widest range of market options to investors,” the company said in a statement released on Thursday.

The Mubasher system will also offer a fast, secure and simple online service to investors due to its foreign design and operation under the FIX protocol. Both these features are a first for online trading platforms in Pakistan.

Mr. GM Malkani, CEO of JS Global observed: “This is the beginning of JS Global’s strategy to provide online financial solutions to its customers”.

He stated: “integrating the state of the art Mubasher system with the online banking service provided by JS Bank will be stage two of company’s development plans.

Mr Rizwan Khan is heading this project and the three different trading terminals of the Mubasher system will be available to our customers as soon as the deployment and testing phase is complete”.

JS Global Capital Ltd, with long-term rating of AA by PACRA, is a subsidiary of Jahangir Siddiqui & Company Limited.

In 2006, Global Investment House KSCC (Global), a leading Kuwait headquartered – regional investment bank, made an investment of US$37 million in JS Global through an acquisition of 42.8 per cent equity stake, the statement said.