By Tom Burgis in Lagos Published: August 23 2010 22:31   Nigeria plans to become the latest emerging market to demutualise its stock exchange amid a struggle for control of sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest bourse.   The plans, which are at an early stage, are part of […]

            By Tom Burgis in Lagos Published: August 23 2010 22:31   For an ugly word, demutualisation is in vogue.   From Brazil’s Bovespa to Bursa Malaysia, numerous exchanges have either demutualised or are planning to, spurred on by the prospect of a profit-driven exchange investing in […]

   August 23, 2010 10:32pm by Tom Burgis    The struggle to control the Nigerian Stock Exchange has reached the highest echelons of power. The jostling potentates are not among the 900 applicants for the vacant chief executive’s job, but they are certainly taking a keen interest in a race […]