This is why @ZIGFinance matters. The people helping drive the world’s growth should have a fair opportunity to invest in it. Some of the world’s largest companies have built their businesses around global participation. We should be asking why participation in their upside remains so uneven. These companies shape how we communicate, work and build businesses. People across emerging markets buy their products, pay their subscriptions and build entire businesses around their technology. Governments spend taxpayers’ money on their infrastructure and services. Over decades, that spending supports revenues, profits, dividends and shareholder wealth. A business owner can pay for the software powering a global company’s growth every month and still face considerable friction trying to invest in its success. Why should we accept that gap as permanent? I come from banking and have benefited from the relationships and access this system rewards. That experience makes me more conscious of how differently it treats someone without those advantages. Investors should be able to decide what exposure they want, how they want to invest and which provider they trust. Different people will choose different products and structures based on their circumstances. Brokers, fund managers and platforms have built entire businesses around providing access to markets. Tokenization creates more ways to serve that demand. Let businesses compete on access, cost, convenience and transparency, and let investors choose. Of course the money must be lawful, investors must meet the applicable requirements and people must understand what they are buying. Those protections should support a market where informed choices are possible. Tokenization can bring more participants and capital into markets, create additional sources of liquidity and support price discovery across venues. It can make investment products easier to distribute and transactions easier to inspect. Companies should scrutinise how their shares are represented and raise specific concerns. We should also scrutinise restrictions that prevent eligible investors from choosing how to participate. This is why ZIG Finance matters to me. We are working to connect real financial opportunities with people who have been poorly served by existing channels.