The Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) participated in Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Career Training Camp, with its Acting Director of the Securities Offering and Listing Affairs Department, Ali Beraik Shafeea, delivering a lecture focused on financial markets regulation. The session covered the establishment, objectives and role of QFMA, alongside a historical overview of financial markets that referenced the Amsterdam Stock Exchange as the first stock exchange, followed by the London Stock Exchange and Paris Stock Exchange. It also touched on the US Securities Act of 1933, the 2008 global financial crisis, and Kuwait’s 1982 Souk al-Manakh crash.