Updates

Unsettling Silence: Dissent from Denial of Request for Rulemaking to Amend 17 C.F.R. § 202.5(e)

January 30, 2024/US SEC By Commissioner Hester M. Peirce I dissent from the Commission’s denial of a petition to amend Rule 202.5(e), our so-called gag rule.[1]  This de facto rule follows from the Commission’s enforcement of its policy, adopted in 1972, that it will not “permit a defendant or respondent […]

Coronation Fixed Income and Exchange Rate Update

January 30, 2024/Coronation Research Summary Opening market liquidity was reported at N210.4bn on Friday (26, January ‘24). Call, overnight, and repo rates closed within a range of 7% – 19% as rates in the money market moderated following inflows from the FGN bond coupon payments and CRR refunds. Our expectation […]

AfDB, Research Centres to Transform African Agriculture and Improve Food Security

With 65% of global uncultivated arable land, the African Development Bank believes that the continent can feed itself and the rest of the world January 29, 2024/AfDB The African Development Bank Group and the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres (CGIAR) committed on Thursday to strengthen their collaboration to increase […]