London-based Simply Sharia Human Capital, the recruitment and training business of the Simply Sharia provider of wealth management services, has signed a long-term training agreement with Spanish business school Escuela de Finanzas.

SSHC will offer the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment’s Islamic Finance Qualification as part of the school’s CISI master’s degree programme in wealth management and Islamic finance.

The programme is a five-part course covering financial markets, portfolio construction theory, applied wealth management, Islamic finance and skill management.

Headquartered in A Coruña, Escuela de Finanzas specialises in postgraduate courses in finance both in Spain and on campuses in Bogota (Colombia) and Montevideo (Uruguay).

“Spain has a very strong historic relationship with Islamic countries. It didn´t make any sense that in a country like Spain with this historic background no one offered IFQ, this is why we have embraced this responsibility, and we want to develop this programme in the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment´s framework and with the help of one of the worldwide leaders in Islamic finance,” Venancio Salcines, president of Escuela de Finanzas, said in a statement.