The CEOs of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Nigeria Exchange (NGX) and other capital market operators have accepted the invitation to participate in the second Finance and Business Online Publishers (FiBOP) capacity building workshop on the deployment of Fintech services in Nigeria for economic growth.
The workshop which is slated for Thursday, November 17, 2022 at Airport Hotel Ikeja, Lagos, will be held under the theme ‘Harnessing Fintech for capital market growth and development’.
The president of FiBOP, Mr. Charles Onwuatogwu, said in a statement that the choice of the topic was borne out of the need to further deepen and enhance the efficiency of the Nigerian capital market, boost earnings of investors and operators as well as draw attention to the challenges and benefits of deploying Fintech services in the Nigerian capital market.
“There is no doubt that the market is facing a lot of challenges at this critical time, hence the import of Fintech in addressing such problems as unclaimed dividends which today stands above N1.8billion, and similar other issues.’
“Moreover, the need to attract more Fintechs to the capital market has become highly imperative in view of the increasing deployment of technology in virtually every facet of life as well as the need to further deepen the market by getting a larger number of our teeming youths to become interested in the capital market,” he said.
He said the event will be attended by the director general of SEC, Mr. Lamido Yuguda, director general, DMO, Ms Patience Oniha, executive vice chairman, NCC, Prof Umar Danbatta, and group managing director, NGX, Mr. Oscar Onyema.
Others are the managing director and chief executive, Cowry Assets Management, Mr. Johnson Chukwu, chief executive officer, FMDQ, Bola Koko, managing director, Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS), Mr. Haruna Jalo-Waziri, captains of industry, chief executives of quoted companies and shareholder groups among others.
FiBOP is the foremost Association of seasoned online publishers in Nigeria, formed with a view to contributing to the economic growth and development of Nigeria through informed, analytical and balanced reportage of events and activities in the economy.
