BSEC, stakeholders train over 21,000 investors in FY26 to strengthen market awareness

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) and its affiliated institutions provided investment education to a total of 21,732 individuals during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

This extensive nationwide outreach, which included various training programmes, seminars, workshops, and conferences, was part of a broader strategy to increase investor awareness, facilitate informed decision-making, and build a healthy and stable capital market. 

According to a press release issued by the BSEC today (20 July), these initiatives targeted a wide range of participants, from retail investors to financial professionals and journalists.

The BSEC's Financial Literacy Division played a central role in this initiative, reaching 4,660 people between July 2025 and June 2026. This training pool included 1,896 general investors and 1,194 employees of various market intermediary firms. To ensure accurate media coverage, the commission conducted workshops for 52 capital market journalists. 

Furthermore, the division organised a high-level seminar on US SEC surveillance, capital issuance, and financial literacy for 81 participants, while also training 106 authorised representatives of DSE TREC-holders.

Special events also drew significant participation, with 1,290 individuals attending programmes during World Investor Week 2025. 

The commission further focused on sector-specific growth by training 91 SME entrepreneurs on raising capital through public offerings. In a bid to promote gender inclusivity in the financial sector, 35 women investors participated in dedicated financial investment workshops, alongside another 26 individuals in miscellaneous educational sessions.

The regulator emphasised that this massive educational drive was a collective effort involving the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), Central Depository Bangladesh Limited (CDBL), and the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB). 

Key academic and professional bodies, including the Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (BICM) and the Bangladesh Academy for Securities Markets (BASM), also took part.

Additionally, individual brokerage houses, merchant bankers, and listed companies carried out their own literacy initiatives to reach a broader audience.

Institutional data showed that, excluding BSEC's affiliated divisions, brokerage houses trained the highest number of participants at 3,876, followed by the Chittagong Stock Exchange (3,350), the Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market (2,589), merchant bankers (2,352), Bangladesh Academy for Security Market (1,339) and the Dhaka Stock Exchange (1,339).

Other contributors included 185 people trained by publicly listed companies, 181 by the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), and 111 by the CDBL.

This multi-stakeholder approach underlines the regulator's commitment to ensuring that market participants at all levels are well-equipped with the financial knowledge necessary to navigate the bourse safely and effectively.