On Oct. 27, 2026, staff from the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic’s Issyk-Kul regional office delivered guest lectures to students in their first year at the I. Biibosunov Pedagogical College and I. Akhunbaev Medical College in Karakol, covering the importance of saving, ways to preserve and grow savings, money muling and fraud as part of World Savings Day 2026.