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Why Pakistan Has 20 Million Crypto Users but Fewer Than 500,000 Stock Market Investors

  • Mutual funds still allocate only ~15% to equities

  • Institutions dominate price discovery

  • Retail flows chase momentum, not fundamentals

Markets don’t mature without broad ownership.


The Irony: Pakistan Already Solved Half the Problem

Pakistan successfully:

  • Digitized banking

  • Scaled mobile wallets

  • Normalized IBFT and Raast

  • Enabled crypto onramps (informally)

Yet capital markets remained stuck in a 1990s compliance mindset.

This is not a technology problem.
It is a regulatory imagination problem.


What Reforms Would Actually Move the Needle

Forget slogans. These are the real levers:

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