CISI Practice Test Hub for UK Financial Services Exams

Find CISI investment, regulation, wealth-management and capital-markets practice by paper, with current bank sizes and a separate CWM vignette companion.

CISI means Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. Choose the exact paper named in your registration for original Finance Prep questions, topic drills, mixed practice and explanations.

Choose your CISI paper

These groups help you find practice; they are not qualification requirements or a prescribed study order. Match your registration to the paper page and use its official resources to check your sitting.

All 16 CISI practice pages are listed below. Bank sizes describe Finance Prep practice, not official exam length. Open a paper page for its exam details and resources.

Foundations and advice essentials

Find broad market, regulation, investment-risk or advice practice.

ICWIM

International wealth and investment foundations: economics, markets, investment analysis and lifetime financial provision.

Practice bank: 768 MCQs

Investment Advice Diploma: specialist units

Choose the Securities, Derivatives or Financial Planning and Advice unit named in your registration.

IAD Securities

Money markets, bonds, equities, funds, trading, settlement, company accounts and securities suitability.

Practice bank: 777 MCQs

IAD Derivatives

Futures, options, OTC derivatives, clearing, margin, hedging and regulation.

Practice bank: 720 MCQs

Wealth and portfolio management

Find private-client, Chartered Wealth Manager and investment-management practice. CWM Financial Markets offers complementary case and MCQ formats.

PCIAM

Private-client advice, investment taxation, trusts, financial instruments and portfolio performance.

Practice bank: 795 MCQs

CWM Portfolio Construction Theory

Client risk, allocation, portfolio theory, behavioural finance, funds, stewardship, performance attribution and UK taxation.

Practice bank: 750 MCQs

CWM Applied Wealth Management

Client discovery and review, protection, pensions, retirement, philanthropy, trusts, estate planning and family offices.

Practice bank: 750 MCQs

Capital markets and controls

Choose a Capital Markets Programme unit, the risk paper or the financial-crime paper.

CMP Securities/Derivatives

Markets, issuance, corporate actions, clearing, settlement, derivative valuation, margin and hedging.

Practice bank: 813 MCQs

Risk in Financial Services

Operational, credit, market and liquidity risk, governance and enterprise risk management.

Practice bank: 1,025 MCQs

Combating Financial Crime

AML, sanctions, fraud, bribery, market abuse and firm-wide financial-crime controls.

Practice bank: 1,000 MCQs

Choose the practice format

Most banks provide stand-alone multiple-choice drills. CWM Financial Markets also offers a vignette companion for integrated market cases, with attached MCQs and explanations. Start with cases when you want to practise using several facts together; use the separate MCQ bank for focused recall and single-question decisions.

The case companion uses original Finance Prep material. It does not reproduce official cases or written-answer marking. An active Finance Prep subscription or access pass includes both CWM banks and the other Finance Prep banks during its access period.

For operations, servicing or oversight study, choose the exact supported paper assigned to your qualification and role. This hub does not offer a separate IOC practice bank.

Page guardrails

  • Canadian securities or investment-funds licensing: use the Canadian exam hub to find CSI and CIRO collections.
  • U.S. SIE or Series exams: use the U.S. exam hub for the separate FINRA, NASAA, MSRB and NFA collections.
  • ACAMS certification: CAMS is separate from the CISI financial-crime paper.

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