Overcoming the public’s emotional and rational barriers to capital-market investment is vital to raising the standard of financial literacy across society, writes Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Chief Executive Officer Ittai Ben-Zeev. He describes how the Israeli bourse is working to break these barriers down.

The pandemic paved the way for more stock market account openings, especially among the working population, so we have beefed up our literacy activities in order to help new investors understand the risks and rewards of the financial instruments they’re getting into, says Ramon S. Monzon, President and CEO, Philippine Stock Exchange.

Japan's exchange operator has devised a series of initiatives to get trillions of yen locked away in household savings working for the economy, writes Hasegawa Takaaki, Director, Financial Literacy Support, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a company of Japan Exchange Group.

From financing school construction to offering university training and broadcasting videos on national TV, Borsa Istanbul is equipping young people with the knowledge to become confident future investors, says Korkmaz Ergun, the bourse’s CEO and Member of the Board.

A vibrant investment education ecosystem has helped Sweden cement its status as one of Europe’s most important growth centres for SMEs, writes Ed Knight, Vice Chairman at Nasdaq Inc.

Investor education is a key component of the overarching goal of investor protection, a goal in which regulatory bodies and financial institutions play a pivotal role, says Niroshan Wijesundere, Head of Marketing, Colombo Stock Exchange.

Hong Kong’s world-leading financial literacy rates show that education has the power to create opportunities at every level of society, writes Vanessa Lau, Group Chief Financial Officer, HKEX.

Ongoing education and financial literacy campaigns are paying off in Kazakhstan, where the pool of quality investors is growing at an unprecedented rate, says Ermek Mazhekenov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.

For more than a decade, the Taiwan Stock Exchange has taken an innovative approach to financial education through the medium of comic books, writes the TWSE Corporate Communications Department’s Chiu Fun-Shun.