Tech. Mobile trading platform unveiled

Nairobi Securities Exchange

NAIROBI, KENYA: You can now buy and sell shares using your mobile phone, thanks to a new mobile platform.

SBG Securities has launched M-Shares, the country’s first-ever mobile platform on an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code.

Through the service, one can also access real-time market information. The USSD option makes share trading available to a wider pool of investors with a mobile phone.