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IOSCO Announces Themes for 9th Edition of World Investor Week to be held October 2025

June 16, 2025/IOSCO WIW 2025 to focus on Technology and Digital Finance, Artificial Intelligence and Fraud & Scam Prevention IOSCO’s World Investor Week (WIW) is a week-long, global campaign to raise awareness of the importance of investor education and protection, and to highlight the various initiatives of securities regulators in […]

Tanzania: Budget 2025–2026 Overview

June 13, 2025 By Bowmans Tanzania The Minister for Finance and Planning Hon. Mwigulu Lameck Nchemba delivered the National Budget Speech on 12 June 2025 with the theme ‘Inclusive Economic Transformation through Domestic Resource Mobilization and Resilient Strategic Investment for Job Creation and Improved Livelihoods’.  The Budget was prepared based on […]

Timor-Leste’s Opportunity to Turn its Wealth Into Economic Development

(Credit: Agung Wid/iStock by Getty Images) June 11, 2025/IMFBlog Timor-Leste has achieved significant progress since its independence in May 2002. Asia’s youngest nation has maintained stability, strengthened institutions, and enjoyed enviable economic growth and inflation for a country emerging from conflict. Notably, it has stockpiled proceeds from its offshore oil […]