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NSE To Exempt Market Makers
The Nigerian Stock Ex-change has said market makers would be exempted from the 5 per cent circuit breaker price movement rule, when they eventually begin operation. The assurance followed expressed anxiety from various quarters over the operating environment appointed market makers may work under.
This means that when they eventually commence operations, they can move the price of a stock as high as possible in a day, in as much as there is demand and supply for such stock.
The Director-General of the Exchange, Prof. Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke, who disclosed this recently, said there would be no restriction on price movement for the market makers in a bid to give them free hand to operate.
She noted that the only thing delaying their operation in the market was the issue of liquidity providers, the only condition which could guarantee the commencement of their operations. According to her, those who had presented some banks as their liquidity providers are still being delayed because the Exchange had to verify the strength of such banks and their ability to perform the roles. She said the Exchange had written to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the banks and the reply is being awaited.
The DG said while the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had done the right thing by registering the six firms that applied, the apex regulatory body did not look at the operation aspect, which was why the Exchange had to introduce the N10 billion minimum capital float for their operation.
Recall that SEC had registered six firms to act as market makers in the market, in a bid to help restore the elusive confidence, while ensuring liquidity. The appointed firms include Chapel Hill Denham; Diamond Capital & Financial Market Limited, a subsidiary of Diamond Bank; Greenwich Advisory Services, a member of the Greenwich Trust Limited; BGL Plc; Value Capital Limited; and Vetira Management Limited.
Speaking on the growing concern over the introduction of circuit breaker, which prevents stocks prices from losing and gaining more than 5 per cent on trading day, Okereke Onyiuke said it should not have generated much concern, adding that it is being adopted in stock exchanges all over the world.
She noted that before the NSE introduced it last year, it was tabled at a conference of World Stock Exchanges where it was approved as being practised in all the 122 Stock Exchanges in the world. She said the only difference in other exchanges is that it is not being announced for the public to know.
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