Botswana Stock Exchange explains how it is using financial education, practical investment experience and digital tools to help young people build the knowledge and confidence to participate in capital markets.

Launched in July 2025, KASE Academy is shifting from individual educational initiatives to a scalable model for building capital-market capability, writes Abylay Syzdykov, PhD, Director of KASE Academy, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange.

Bilel Sahnoun, CEO, Tunis Stock Exchange, explains how financial literacy can strengthen investor confidence, broaden participation and lay the foundations for a more inclusive and resilient Tunisian capital market.

Alejandra Moya, Account Executive LATAM, Beeks Group, explores the barriers limiting access to emerging markets and how managed infrastructure could help exchanges attract global liquidity.

Marwa ElBaz, General Manager Marketing & Financial Literacy, and Mario Fakhry, Marketing & Financial Literacy specialist, explain EGX's approach to financial education and how initiatives spanning universities, communities, digital platforms and business networks are helping to broaden financial literacy.

Aigerim Kuanysh, Chief Associate of the International Cooperation and Sustainability Department at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), explores how developing Kazakhstan's first Bond Market Guide under the Asian Development Bank's ABMF framework revealed valuable lessons about investor access, market transparency, and building a more globally accessible capital market.

Juan Pablo Córdoba, CEO of nuam, explores how shared technology, harmonised rules and greater cross-border collaboration are helping to connect the stock exchanges of Chile, Colombia and Peru.

Vidarsha Dharmasena, former Head of Sustainability at DFCC Bank PLC, Sri Lanka, sets out how exchanges can play a pivotal role in helping to translate climate and sustainability goals into credible, commercially viable and globally recognised instruments.

Aobakwe Aupa Monyatsi, CEO of Botswana Stock Exchange, outlines how stronger regional cooperation can create more connected capital markets, unlock investment opportunities and support sustainable economic growth.