- CEO
- Muhammad Farid Alam
- Full Time Employees
- 255
- Sector
- Finance
- Industry
- Investment banks/Brokers
- Address
- Karachi Pakistan
- IPO Date
- Aug 4, 2008
- Business
- AKD Securities Limited is a Pakistan-based financial services institution and securities brokerage firm engaged in equity brokerage, investment banking, corporate finance advisory, and economic research. The company delivers a diversified suite of financial products and specialized services, including: equity brokerage services for domestic retail investors, high-net-worth individuals, local institutional entities, and foreign institutional investors across the Pakistan Stock Exchange; corporate finance and investment banking solutions, spanning initial public offerings, underwriting, book-building, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions advisory, debt and equity capital market structuring, private placements, and corporate restructuring; commodity futures and derivatives trading through the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange; money market and interbank foreign exchange brokerage; digital brokerage infrastructure delivered via the AKD Trade suite, encompassing the AKD TradeCast desktop terminal and the AKD Trade Pro mobile trading application, equipped with live market data feeds, advanced technical charting, order management, and portfolio tracking; Roshan Equity Investment services facilitating direct securities market participation for overseas Pakistanis through Roshan Digital Accounts; and equity and economic research products, consisting of macroeconomic coverage, equity valuations, industry thematic reports, and daily market wraps. In recent corporate developments, the company completed a major corporate consolidation and reverse merger with BIPL Securities Limited under a court-sanctioned scheme of amalgamation, culminating in the formal renaming of the publicly listed entity to AKD Securities Limited on the Pakistan Stock Exchange under ticker symbol AKDSL. Concurrently, the firm has advanced its strategic focus on financial inclusion and digital brokerage expansion, upgrading its proprietary mobile trading interfaces, integrating digital client onboarding systems, and managing notable public takeover and advisory mandates within Pakistan's capital markets. Incorporated in 2000 and operating as a subsidiary of AKD Group Holdings (Private) Limited, AKD Securities Limited is headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, and maintains branch networks across major urban centers nationwide.