2025: SEC unveils agenda for capital market

The Securities and Trade Fee (SEC) has stated it might prioritise key initiatives geared toward deepening market integrity, enhancing investor confidence and driving financial progress by specializing in its twin mandate of regulating and creating the capital market in Nigeria in 2025.

The Director Common of SEC, Dr Emomotimi Agama, stated this in his New Yr message to the capital market neighborhood on Sunday.

In response to him, defending buyers remained a cornerstone of the fee’s mission.

Agama additionally stated that the fee would prioritise key initiatives geared toward deepening market integrity, enhancing investor confidence and driving financial progress.

In response to him, SEC is positioned with a twin mandate in regulating and creating the capital market in Nigeria.

“Naturally, our prime precedence in 2025 will minimize throughout the twin mandate. For us, mainstreaming the Nigerian Capital Market into the economic system may be very very important.

“Enforcement is the spine of efficient regulation. We’re revamping our investigative processes to boost effectivity and maintain unhealthy actors accountable extra decisively.

“Insider buying and selling undermines actions and dampens market equity. By revising our regulatory framework, we goal to strengthen detection, prevention, and accountability mechanisms.

“Transparency is on the coronary heart of buyers confidence and capital markets. We are going to introduce measures to make sure larger visibility and belief in securities transactions,” he stated.

The director-general added that to resolve market disputes effectively and pretty, the fee was specializing in enhancing the operations of the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST).

He famous that these efforts goal to make the tribunal simpler in delivering well timed resolutions, thereby enhancing general effectivity within the course of.

Agama acknowledged that key focus for the fee in 2025 is strengthening the authorized framework of the commodities market to allow it attain its full potential of aiding financial improvement.

He stated the commodities market is a significant space of curiosity for SEC, including that Nigeria is solely an agrarian nation.

The director-general stated that taking that comparative benefit to the following degree, is one thing that the fee is proud to be a part of.

Agama stated this yr, SEC would deal with reinforcing the authorized and regulatory constructions that help progress to create a strong basis for the colourful commodities ecosystem, be it smooth or onerous commodity.

“Extra so, when we have now a plethora of commodities throughout Nigeria. SEC as a accomplice in improvement will make it possible for we make the distinction,” he stated.

Agama stated that these initiatives replicate the fee’s imaginative and prescient for a stronger and extra inclusive capital market in 2025, including that SEC is dedicated to constructing wealth, instilling confidence and making impacts.

The SEC boss stated: “As we embark on this journey, I invite all stakeholders to work with us in reaching these objectives.

“Collectively, we will unlock the potentials of the Nigerian capital market and make this a defining yr for our economic system.

“What we intend to do, is to steer the capital market in the direction of a course that ensures that improvement will get to the doorstep of each Nigerian.”
(NAN)