The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) remained the world s largest derivatives exchange for the second consecutive year in 2020 in terms of number of contracts traded, according to the Futures Industry Association (FIA). In addition, the bourse has been ranked fourth in the world in cash equities by number of trades by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) for calendar year 2020, NSE said in a statement on Thursday. The exchange said it has been focused on building robust markets for all asset classes and had launched a host of new products and services last year. In the capital market segment, NSE has listed T-bills (Treasury Bills) and SDLs (State Development Loans) facilitating investors to transact in these securities, in addition to the existing dated Government Securities (G-sec) available for trading.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, yesterday, said it expects the marginal reopening of businesses, normalization of the economy and revenue-diversification drive of the Federal Government to elicit positive market transactions throughout the year.
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2020: NSE overcomes Covid-19 challenges with innovation, technology as listed securities hit N1.72trn
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By Peter Egwuatu
The Nigerian stock market in the year 2020 will certainly go down in the history books as one of the most challenging years of modern existence.
However, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE during the year under review overwhelmed the storm through innovation and technology as value of listed securities hit N1.72 trillion.
Early in the year, a global pandemic took the world by storm necessitating a significant change in life and work as we know it.
On 23 and 24 March 2020, the Exchange took steps to preserve the health and safety of its stakeholders by activating its Business Continuity plan which saw the transition to working from home and remote trading in response to the spread of the Coronavirus, COVID-19. Since then, the Exchange has maintained seamless working and trading operations, experiencing zero down time.
Adedayo Adejobi
The year 2020 will certainly go down in the history books as one of the most challenging years of modern existence. Early in the year, a global pandemic took the world by storm necessitating a significant change in life and work as we know it. On 23 and 24 March 2020, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) took steps to preserve the health and safety of its stakeholders by activating its Business Continuity plan which saw the transition to working from home and remote trading in response to the spread of the COVID-19. Since then, The Exchange has maintained seamless working and trading operations, experiencing zero down time.
Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange: Discussing Capital Markets in Tanzania with Moremi Marwa
Marcopolis presents the Tanzania Report focused on topics such as economy, investments and doing business, featuring interviews with Tanzania s leaders. The sectors under review in this issue are agriculture, banking, construction and real estate, energy, financial services, exports, industry, tourism, logistics and many more.
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Moremi Marwa, CEO of Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange
Can you elaborate on the impact of COVID on the capital market?
COVID-19 has had an impact on almost every nation and every
Tanzania being part of the global economy also had its own impact. However, the impact was limited in the sense that our social and economic activities were not much impacted by the lockdown. Our lockdown was partial, in terms of restricting some of our movements, and that was for only three months, from mid-March to June. From there, the government, after seeing some pos