Stock exchanges seek to ride on technological disruption

From left)Nairobi Securities Exchange CEO Geoffrey Odundo,flanked Oscar Onyema(C) president of the African securities exchange association(ASEA)and CEO of the Nigerian stock exchange and Paul Muthaura(Right)Chief Executive Capital Markets Authority,during the launch of 7th Building African financial markets(BAFM) seminar at Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi on 19th April 2018.[Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Capital markets such as the Nairobi Securities Exchange will have to innovate or face waning relevance in the wake of increased technological disruption.

This was the rallying call from influential speakers in the two-day Building African Financial Markets seminar that concluded in Nairobi yesterday.