Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) and the Business Administration Faculty/ Banking and Finance Dep. at the Philadelphia University held an awareness lecture to spread investment culture and raise awareness among banking and finance students. The CEO of ASE, Mr. Jalil Tarif, in the presence of the Dean of the Business Administration Faculty, Dr. khaled Al Sartawi , the Head of the Finance Department, Dr. Abed Alnafeh Alzorari and a number of professors and students, delivered a lecture entitled "Recent developments of the Jordan Capital Market" concentrating on the technical and legislative developments at the ASE and the basic topics relevant to Jordan capital market and securities trading, in addition to a glimpse on the main concepts related to the capital market including securities, bonds, in addition to the discussion of the global financial crisis and its effects on the global economy in general and the ASE in particular.
Tarif also stressed the important role of the capital market in increasing investments and creating job opportunities, which supports the economic growth in the kingdom and attracts local and foreign investments as the non- Jordanian investments reached about (48%) of the ASE market capitalization.
