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.

Qatar Stock Exchange talks us through its work to improve financial literacy, reach young people and give them practical experience of how markets work.

Chan Kum Kong, Head of Capital Market Development, SGX Group, tells us how artificial intelligence is reshaping investor education and why experiential learning can help exchanges engage investors.

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.

Ian Salmon, Head of Product Marketing at Adaptive, asks what exchanges need from their technology as markets change and new demands emerge.

Adrienne Muir, CEO, Avenir Technology, looks back on nearly 30 years of change in financial markets and what the move towards longer trading hours could mean for the next phase of market infrastructure.

Michael Winnike, Managing Director and Head of Strategy and Market Solutions, DTCC, discusses the significance of the organisation's use of tokenised DTC-held assets in real production trades.

Iosif Itkin, CEO and co-Founder, Exactpro and CTO, Murabex, and Alyona Bulda, SVP, Emerging Technologies, Exactpro, and Head of Platform, Murabex, look at how Islamic finance can be more closely connected to domestic markets and the role its Murabex platform could play.

Magnus Almqvist, CEO of Exberry, looks at the growth of perpetual contracts and what their rise could mean for exchanges and the infrastructure that supports them.