Expectations are already high as capital market apex and self-regulatory organisation, operators, and investors gather today in Lagos at the popular Civic Center, Victoria Island for the 4th edition of BusinessDay Annual Capital Market Conference.
The conference with the theme, ‘West African Capital Market Integration: Challenges & Opportunities for Nigerian Businesses’, is focusing on understanding the roles of each stakeholder in the build up to an integrated market, inherent opportunities of an integrated regional market, as well as perceivable challenges, and will proffer solutions to the challenges.
Arunma Oteh, director-general, Securities & Exchange Commission will be the special guest of honour; while invited speakers/panelists include: Oscar Onyema, CEO, Nigeria Stock Exchange; Ekow Afedzie, deputy managing director, Ghana Stock Exchange; Fola Daniel, commissioner for insurance, Nigerian Insurance Commission (NAICOM); Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, acting director-general, National Pension Commission (PenCom), and Bola Onadele Koko, chief executive officer, FMDQ.
Other invited speakers/panelists are Albert Okumagba, president/chairman in council, Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers; Bolaji Balogun, chairman, Association of Issuing Houses of Nigeria; Emeka Madubuike, chairman, Association of Stockbroking Houses of Nigeria; Bayo Olugbemi, president, Institute of Capital Market Registrars; and Adeyemi Johnson, CEO, Open Space Compliance Consultants Limited.
Expected participants today at the conference are managing directors/CEOs of all listed companies on the NSE and companies intending to list on the Exchange; the leadership team of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Nigerian Stock Exchange; Senate and House committee chairmen on capital market; CEOs of all issuing and stockbroking houses; registrars; pension fund administrators; investment banks; fund managers; insurance companies, investors, among others.
The conference will assist participants/stakeholders in understanding their roles in the entire scenario; it will also help the over 300 expected participants understand the opportunities in an integrated regional market; mobilise stakeholders’ support for the West African Integrated Market initiative; and show what the initial challenges will be for Nigerian businesses and fashion ways to mitigate them.
