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Nasdaq to Provide SMARTS Market Surveillance Technology to Nigerian Stock Exchange

January 27, 2016/NSE & NASDAQ (Nasdaq: NDAQ) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (“The Exchange” or “NSE”) have announced that NSE, which services the largest economy in Africa, will acquire Nasdaq’s SMARTS Market Surveillance platform to power their compliance program. The technology will provide NSE with the surveillance expertise needed to […]

Bank of Ghana keeps benchmark interest rate at 26 pct

  January 25, 2016/Reuters Ghana’s central bank kept its benchmark policy rate at 26 percent on Monday citing moderation in the pace of consumer inflation, its governor Henry Kofi Wampah said. The West African nation is under a three-year aid program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support an […]

Nigeria must “harmonise” monetary and fiscal policies: finance minister

Sat Jan 23, 2016/Reuters By Sujata Rao DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Monetary and budgetary policies in Nigeria need to be “harmonised” to boost the economy, Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun said on Friday, adding that moves towards this can be expected. Nigeria has just unveiled a large increase in budget spending […]