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71 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 POLICY AND ENFORCEMENT

Meetings and Conferences

Global Money Week IOSCO Africa and Middle East
Regional Committee (AMERC)
Global Money Week is organised every March in over 150
countries worldwide, including Qatar for the past three years.
Its aim is to educate children and youth about the value Kuwait, January 2019
of money, spending it wisely and saving it for the future. Hosted by the Kuwaiti Capital Markets Authority
Focus: Challenges and opportunities for building
Money Week was launched in 2010 by Her Majesty Queen sustainable capital markets, emerging risk
Máxima of the Netherlands. The initiative has since grown and opportunities in the AMERC region
into a global annual event supporting the financial literacy
of millions of young people. During this week, awareness- IOSCO Annual Conference
raising activities for children take place, including guest
speakers in schools, visits to banks, money museums and Sydney, May 2019
stock markets, educational games and various competitions. Hosted by the Australian Securities
and Investments Commission
In 2019, between 24-28 March, five Regulatory Authority Focus: Priority issues facing securities
employees discussed the value of money with children at market regulators and supervisors
three primary schools. This was organised as part of the
Regulatory Authority’s efforts to promote investor education IOSCO Growth and Emerging
and consumer protection, under the Second Strategic Plan Markets Committee (GEMC)
and the Regulatory Authority’s wider Corporate Social
Responsibility initiatives. St. Petersburg, October 2019
Hosted by the Bank of Russia
“As part of our CSR programme, Mubadarah, we are Focus: FinTech, sustainable finance in emerging
committed to raising the financial literacy of young people in markets as well as market developments and
Qatar and making them aware of the many career choices in regulatory updates from GEMC members
the finance sector. With its focus on teaching children about
the importance of saving and investing, Money Week Qatar
was a great fit for us, and our employees who volunteered
in the classroom thoroughly enjoyed themselves.”

– Michael G. Ryan, Chief Executive Officer