CHAIRMAN of United   Bank for Africa, UBA, Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, said Africa must embrace inter-regional trade to fast-track the development of the continent.

FOLLOWING the increase in the flouting of free float rule by quoted companies, the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, is considering reviewing the rules to ensure that companies comply with the post listing requirement and avoid being delisted from the Exchange. Free float rule stipulates the minimum number of shares required by promoters of public companies listed on the NSE to be released to the investing public for trading at the stock market.

STANDARD Chartered Bank said that banks in the country are determined to fight financial crime to boost confidence in the industry.

Accion Microfinance Bank, AMfB, has upgraded its core banking system with a view to mitigating risk of failing system while also helping to boost the businesses of people leaving with disability.

Welcome to 2019 usiness year. Many may call it political or more appropriately, election year, while others would call it whatever that matches their vocation or profession, but for this column dedicated to start-up entrepreneurs it is a new business year, irrespective of whatever that is happening in the entire society. Don’t get distracted, discouraged or disillusioned by the environmental circumstances. Stay focused on your entrepreneurial journey. The situation/ circumstances will still change but your success targets remains.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will remain a frontrunner in the digital transformation process for financial Services Industry (FSI).

The Recharge Centre, organizers of the Champions  Summit, a non profit organization saddled with the responsibility to sensitize entrepreneurs on ways to succeed has in a forum pointed the way forward for businesses.

THE Federal Government on Wednesday transmitted executive bill to the National Assembly for the new minimum wage of N27,000 for state government workers and the private sector as well as N30,000 for the federal workers.

The Naira yesterday depreciated to N362.42 per dollar in the Investors and Exporters (I&E) window due to an 11 percent decline in the volume of dollars traded.

MERISTEMWealth Management Limited, a subsidiary of Meristem Securities Limited, has gone a step further in bolstering investors’ confidence with compliance to the Global Investment Performance Standard (GIPS), emerging the first asset management company in Nigeria to claim compliance.

It is quite challenging when you look at it globally. If you look at what happened from 2015 when we had massive drop in oil  prices, it virtually affected almost every country but it affected us more as an oil  producer and as a country that relies so much on foreign revenue from oil. So that in itself was a big challenge on its own. But the key thing is that our previous fundamentals have always been based on prudence in Zenith Bank.

DESPITE the rally witnessed in the equity market last week on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE Financial analysts have cautioned investors to be careful in their investment choice amidst brewing political jitters ahead 2019 elections.

AMIDST the challenges of trans-lating Nigeria’s population into real economic assets, economy experts at the just concluded third edition of annual Vanguard Economic Discourse have recommended use of tax incentives for private sector investment as a means of enhancing the quality of human life, otherwise known as human development index, HDI. However, they expressed divergent views on the nature of correlation between economic growth and HDI.

THE Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE has debunked alleged market manipulation following the massive market activities in the secondary market experienced last year between January and February 2018.

Chief economist of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, at the Discourse raised some fundamental issues of strategy as well as global examples of successes that Nigeria can emulate in addressing its HDI challenges.