Kenya seeks to change investor protection
Proposed amendments to Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA: www.cma.or.ke) Act would block institutional investors from getting compensation for money lost in cases of collapse of ...
Proposed amendments to Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA: www.cma.or.ke) Act would block institutional investors from getting compensation for money lost in cases of collapse of ...
Stockbroker and investment bank Exotix Limited says the Ghana Stock Exchange’s All-Share Index has so far been the world’s worst performer in 2009, falling 49% ...
It has been hard to get news of the African Stock Exchanges Association this year, but news reports talk of integration between the Ghana and ...
South African investors can trade two of the best-known IT names through the listing of single stock futures (SSFs) on Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) and Google (www.google.com) ...
The curriculum of the Securities Industry Training Institute (SITI) has been launched in Kampala, Uganda.
SITI aims to standardize training on a wide range of ...
Another step has been taken towards the appointment of the new Director-General for Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. The Senate last week confirmed the appointment ...
The Uganda Securities Exchange (www.use.or.ug) is seeking innovative steps to make its market more relevant to the development needs of the local economy by relaxing ...
Kenya is considering speeding up plans to privatize the Nairobi Stock Exchange (www.nse.co.ke), the biggest market in East Africa. The aim is initially that stockbrokers ...
Zimbabwe’s 2010 budget includes slashing transaction costs on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by more than half, to 3.21% (buying 1.73%, selling 1.48%) from 7.5%, ...
The recently formed Egyptian Financial Supervisory Authority (www.efsa.gov.eg) is tightening regulation for listed companies and other financial market intermediaries. It is working with the Egyptian ...
The African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) is set to discuss "Global Crisis: Opportunities for African Capital Markets” within 2 weeks. The 13th ASEA conference will ...
The Nigerian Stock Exchange is seeking some US$33 million in capital for its fifth software upgrade and also to help finance the Sierra Leone stock ...
From 9 November, Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission is to call stockbrokers and other market participants before its Administrative Proceedings Committee (APC). This is part ...
Extracts from the keynote speech by US stockbroker Jonathan Auerbach at a joint conference between his company, Auerbach-Grayson & Company, Nedgroup Securities and Nedbank Capital ...
Three excellent sites offer fine material and services on promoting investor relations, and feature an enticing line-up of online published annual reports of listed companies ...
The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) has readvertised its request for IT vendors to express their interest in providing a Broker Back Office (BBO) system to ...
A bill to regulate the capital markets and collective investment schemes was tabled in the Rwandan Parliament last week.
South Africa’s securities exchange, the JSE Ltd (www.jse.co.za), is offering trading in gold, platinum and sweet crude oil futures contracts on its commodities derivatives ...
Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority is giving limited refunds to people who lost money with stockbroker Nyagah Securities which collapsed in 2008 and it has set ...
New bond issues are springing across Africa, including Kenya’s Kengen issue for more power generation which closed on 29 September, and bank issues in Nigeria ...