- SEC revamps its online learning platform, SEC Academy, offering free financial-literacy courses to Filipinos
- Relaunch aligns with Investor Protection Week 2025, promoting responsible investing and awareness against financial scams
- Platform expansion supports broader SEC push to embed fintech and financial-literacy education across schools and diverse demographics
The SEC has revamped its online learning platform, SEC Academy, with an improved interface and a wider slate of free courses designed to enhance financial literacy for Filipinos. The revamped site was launched in tandem with the formal launch of Investor Protection Week 2025 under the theme 'InvestEd Tayo sa Kinabukasang Sigurado'.
According to SEC Chairperson Francis Lim, the re-launch is rooted in a belief that financial education 'should not be for the few but for all who dream of a better life'. The enhanced online facility, accessible through academy.sec.gov.ph, provides modules on personal finance, entrepreneurship, responsible investing, and how to identify investment scams and predatory financial schemes free of charge.
Material for the course has been developed in conjunction with industry practitioners, regulators, and SEC policy-makers to ensure that it is relevant and rigorous. The redesign also reflects a broader regulatory drive to embed financial-literacy education into the high-school curriculum and reach the widest possible demographic, from student to retiree.
Lim stressed that the Week’s theme of being properly 'invested' in one’s future drives home the point that 'true security is built over time, with awareness, discipline and integrity'. The relaunch event was held at the SEC headquarters in Makati City, attended by students, young professionals, and personnel in uniformed services.
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Aside from the learning platform itself, the SEC has been very active in a host of other fintech-education ventures. These have included hosting a 'crypto awareness session' and an industry roundtable during the Fintech Forward 2025 event that ranged over topics including cryptocurrencies, regulatory considerations, artificial intelligence in financial services, and fraud prevention.
In a related move, the agency is preparing to deploy 'VERITAS', a blockchain-based authentication system that secures corporate filings with immutable digital signatures, reflecting a broader agenda toward digital finance and regulatory innovation.
With the re-opening of the SEC Academy, the SEC hopes to make financial knowledge as available as possible and narrow the gap of those who are at risk of financial exploitation or who simply do not have the means to make proper decisions. Further expanding access and improving content, the Commission is integrating financial-literacy training into formal education in order to take a more proactive step toward strengthening financial resilience across the Philippines.
