DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 13 -- SOMETHING extraordinary happened in Tanzanias capital market in 2025 and if you blinked, you might have missed the scale of it.

Quietly but powerfully, hundreds of thousands of Tanzanians made a decisive move toward wealth creation, confidence in formal markets and long-term financial inclusion. The numbers are not just impressive; they are transformative.

They tell a story of trust regained, innovation rewarded and a market that finally found its momentum. According to the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE) Market Performance Report for 2025, a remarkable 123,547 new Central Depository System (CDS) accounts were opened within a single year.

This pushed the total number of unique CDS accounts to 740,639 by the...