Association of Assets Custodians of Nigeria (AACN), Central Securities Clearing Systems (CSCS) plc, and the Financial Markets Dealers Quotations over the Counter (FMDQ OTC) plc have joined hand to extract opportunities as foreign portfolio investors and Nigerian portfolio managers brainstorm and network in London.
Consequently, AACN has concluded plans to hold its fourth annual investor conference with the theme ‘Navigating Changes, Extracting Opportunities,’ on May 7, 2015, in London.
The purpose of the event is to provide expert insight on Nigeria’s current market trends, and an opportunity for significant interaction among the various Nigeria capital market operators and investors. This year’s conference is co-sponsored by FMDQ OTC and CSCS.
“We need a platform to get everybody in touch to network. We need to constantly do image laundering. We need to constantly let everybody know all the good works we are doing in Nigeria. That is why we have been doing this event and it has been very successful,” Kemi Adewole, general manager, head, securities services, securities country manager, Citibank Nigeria Limited, said in Lagos.
The 2015 investor conference will host speakers representing the regulators and key market operators. They include Godwin Emefiele, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mounir Gwarzo, acting director-general, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Adeolu Bajomo, executive director, market operations and technology, Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), and Kyari Abba Bukar, managing director/CEO, CSCS.
Other speakers participating in panel of discussions are Abraham Nwankwo, director-general, Debt Management Office (DMO), Bolaji Balogun, managing director, Chapel Hill Denham, Bola Koko, managing director/CEO, FMDQ OTC, Bola Ajomale, managing director/CEO, NASD plc, Bayo Olugbemi, president, Institute of Capital Market Registrars (CMR), and some major foreign portfolio investors and global custodians.
AACN continues to strive for greater efficiency in the Nigerian capital market, with a firm understanding of the importance of bringing the players in the market together. The 2015 investor conference will provide a platform to facilitate dialogue between foreign investors and Nigerian capital/financial market operators, while keeping participants abreast of Nigerian securities market developments.
Founded in 2009, the members of the association are Citibank Nigeria Limited, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, First City Monument Bank plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank Limited, Standard Chartered Bank Limited, and United Bank for Africa (UBA) plc.
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