CSE launches educational portal

The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) launched its online educational portal in partnership with think Cube Systems (Pvt) Ltd on Thursday to meet the growing interest among the public in improving skills and knowledge related to the capital market.

The portal in English, Sinhala and Tamil, adds a new dimension to the CSE's investor education initiatives, offering learning material at the click of a button. The online based distribution of information, training and analysis will assist the CSE in reaching out to a wider segment of investors and potential market participants, which adds significant scope to the CSE's efforts to increase market engagement among the public. CSE Chairman Vajira Kulatilaka said, "We are pleased to launch the educational portal as a landmark initiative in 2016 and thank thinkCube Systems for driving the endeavour by partnering with us. Facilitating financial literacy and investor education is a key focus at the CSE and we believe that this new online portal will offer the public a convenient and proactive source of capital market related learning."

CEO, thinkCube, Mithila Mendis said, "We are privileged to partner a prestigious institution such as the Colombo Stock Exchange in an exercise which is visionary and will result in benefits such as market growth through better knowledge in operations and wider access to timely information. thinkCube will continue to support the CSE in bringing updated technology, a greater scope of content, training courses and online events". The CSE will use the educational portal to deliver a range of educational resources including publications, online courses, trading statistics, webinars and videos specially targeting first-time investors.

CEO, thinkCube, Mithila Mendis and Chairman, CSE, Vajira Kulatilaka exchange the agreement at the launch.