Title: Press Release: The Capital Markets Authority Opinion Poll on the Financial Inclusion Reality in Kuwait

Kuwait, March 11, 2023 – As part of the Capital Markets Authority’s (CMA) belief in the importance of financial inclusion in our present reality, and its role in achieving the sustainable development as a mean to achieve the required economic and social stability and addressing the economic, social, health, and environmental challenges that are currently facing the human communities, and as the CMA adopts qualitative initiatives in its upcoming strategy aiming at sustainability and financial inclusion matters, of which is the referral of its National Project for Promoting Financial Literacy as a project for promoting financial inclusion and investment awareness for the purpose of enabling the various society segments as well as the current and future securities investors and the ones interested in it from accessing the financial services including those offered by the CMA and its partners in the capital market system, especially with the predictions on the diversity of the available financial services in terms of quantity and quality during the coming phase in line with CMA’s direction to execute several developed financial instruments and creative investment products within the framework of an integrated project for financial technologies.

As the CMA dedicates its approach to involve all entities concerned with securities activities and those dealing in it in its directives related to securities activities and its various services, and in order to involve the largest segment in its opinion poll related to analyzing the financial inclusion reality in Kuwait from its various aspects, it invites all the concerned, interested, and willing persons to participate in its opinion poll regarding financial inclusion through the following two codes:

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Notes to Editors:
The Capital Markets Authority was established pursuant to Law No. 7/2010, approved by the Kuwaiti Parliament in February 2010. Pursuant to the Law, the CMA shall regulate and supervise the securities activities, achieve transparency and fairness, observe listed companies’ execution of Corporate Governance regulations, and protect investors from unfair practices which violate the CMA's Law.
Furthermore, the Law's provisions stipulate the supervision of mergers, acquisitions, and disclosure operations. The CMA also aims to provide awareness programs related to securities activities.
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