Built by someone sitting the same exams.
Passkey is an independent study tool for CISI qualifications, made by a markets professional preparing for the exams, for everyone else preparing for them too.
Why Passkey exists
The official route to a CISI pass is a dense workbook or a pricey classroom course, with not much in between. Passkey is the thing we wanted ourselves while revising: over 4,400 questions written to the current syllabus, instant explanations when you slip up, and a tracker that points your revision exactly where it is needed. Reading the workbook is not revision. Being tested is, and that principle runs through every study mode.
Who writes the questions
Every question and guide on Passkey is written by someone who works in capital markets and is sitting these exams, against the latest official workbooks and current UK financial services regulation. That is the point of the byline you see on our guides: the material is written from the inside, by a practitioner, not churned out by a content team that has never seen the inside of a test centre. When regulation moves, the questions move with it.
Our independence from CISI
To be completely clear about what we are: Passkey is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or accredited by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. ‘CISI’ and all exam names are trademarks of their respective owners. Every question is written from scratch to reflect the published syllabus and is never reproduced from CISI’s own materials. The qualification comes from CISI. We just help you prepare for it.
What we cover
Nine exams: the Introduction to Securities & Investment, all three Capital Markets Programme papers, UK Financial Regulation, Securities and Derivatives, the IOC technical unit Global Securities Operations, both Investment Advice Diploma papers, Investment, Risk & Taxation and Financial Planning & Advice, and the two Risk & Compliance certificates, Risk in Financial Services and Global Financial Compliance. One payment of £59 covers all nine, with full access until your exam date, capped at 3 months, and it is backed by our 80% mock guarantee: average 80% or higher across your last three Passkey mocks, sit the real paper within 30 days, and if you do not pass we refund you in full.
See where you stand.
Take the free diagnostic to find your weak spots in a few minutes, then unlock all nine CISI exams for £59.