A financial expert and the Managing Director, Maxifund Securities Limited, Mazi Okechukwu Unegbu, has called for the establishment of more stock exchanges across the nation, saying that the demutualization of the current exchange without providing alternative trading points will portend danger for the entire economy.

Standard Chartered Bank has restated its readiness to facilitate trade between Nigeria and Singapore as Nigeria was Singapore’s 51st largest trading partner in 2011 with bilateral trade rising 25 per cent from 2010 figures to S$481.5 million.

NCR Nigeria Plc has expressed optimism of a significant improvement in its financial performance in the years ahead following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s recent reversal of the directive on offsite Automated Teller Machines, ATM.

MOst African countries have come to recognise the critical role that the private sector can play to help the continent reach its full economic and social potentials, according to the 2011 African Development Report of the African Development Bank (AfDB) launched in Arusha.

FINANCIAL experts said that the autonomy of the Central Bank is a critical to macroeconomic growth and stability.