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Investments Bills  To Boost Local, Foreign Investors’ Confidence In Capital Market

by Olushola Bello
2 years ago
in Business
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The provisions of the Investments and Securities Bill (ISB) recently passed by the House of representatives is expected to inspire confidence of both local and foreign investors in the Nigerian capital market.

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This has shown investors can be assured that the regulators have been sufficiently empowered to deal with malpractices that undermine confidence in the market.

This was stated by the chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Capital Markets and Institutions, Hon. Babangida Ibrahim during an interview in Abuja.

Ibrahim stated that, foreign investors and market participants will also be attracted to the Nigerian market because they will have comfort in the fact that the Bill seeks to mirror standard investor-protective provisions and practices in advanced jurisdictions, which the foreign participants are already familiar with.

On the reason for the new bill, the lawmaker stated that the current enabling law for the Nigerian capital market, the Investments and Securities Act, No. 29 of 2007 (ISA) was signed into law by late President Umar Musa Yar’adua in June 2007 before the global financial crisis of 2008/2009.

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Global financial regulators, he said, have made major changes in their regulatory instruments following the crisis to address some of the obvious gaps that contributed to the global economic disruption of the time.

He added that, such global shifts and other current trends in capital markets regulation have made it imperative to make major improvements to the Act to align its market with international standards.

According to Ibrahim, “the Bill seeks to repeal the ISA and introduced new provisions that empowers the SEC to collaborate with other regulatory bodies in the financial sector to manage and mitigate systemic risks as it confers new investigative and enforcement powers on the apex regulator, SEC, to effectively regulate the Nigerian capital market.

“It introduces the framework for regulation of new products including financial and commodities derivatives and financial market infrastructures, which are expected to lead to increased activities, and thus, deepen the Nigerian capital market.”

It added that, “the Bill introduces stiffer sanctions in the form of increased fines and jail terms, which are commensurate with the severity of offences, and also serve as deterrence to potential future offenders. The Bill will ensure the diversification of the Nigerian economy away from a mono product oil economy through the strengthening of the Nigerian commodities ecosystem with the trading of warehouse receipts and commodities contracts on the Commodities Exchanges.

“The Bill also contains legal framework for registration and regulation of new types of critical market infrastructures such as central counterparties, which will be responsible for managing the risks emanating from transactions in derivatives and other financial instruments, thereby ensuring the safety and integrity of our markets and boosting investors’ confidence.”

The lawmaker disclosed that federal government agencies, Subnational, Supranational will be able to better access the capital market for both revenue bonds and project tied bonds as the Bill now contains adequate provisions that enable both corporates and governments to issue new instruments to develop the infrastructural requirements of the country.

 


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