KASE together with IFC hosted annual market open ceremony "Ring the Bell for Gender Equality" and discussion "Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress"

/KASE, March 6, 2024/ – Today, KASE together with the International Finance Corporation hosted the annual market open ceremony Ring the Bell for Gender Equality, which featured a discussion on the topic "Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress". The market open ceremony "Ring the Bell for Gender Equality" is organized to attract the global community's attention to the development prospects of gender inclusivity and support for gender equality in the context of sustainable development policies and ESG principles. The discussion "Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress" featured investment experts and executives from major financial institutions, who discussed gender inclusion in the context of women's entrepreneurship investing and green finance. KASE hosts this ceremony for the seventh time as part of the implementation of the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, which KASE joined in 2015. This campaign is traditionally supported around the world by UN Women, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the organization "Women in ETFs" and the World Federation of Exchanges. Every year, more than 100 exchanges around the world hold a trading opening ceremony to celebrate gender equality as part of the UN SSE Initiative. A press release dedicated to this event was published on KASE's Internet resource: - https://kase.kz/files/press/kz/ring_the_bell_kaz.pdf – in Kazakh; - https://kase.kz/files/press/ru/ring_the_bell_ru.pdf – in Russian; - https://kase.kz/files/press/en/ring_the_bell_en.pdf – in English. [2024-03-06]