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NSE banks on new trading platform to revive bond market

An employee makes notes in front of an electronic stock information screen inside the Nairobi Securities Exchange Ltd. (NSE), in Nairobi, Kenya. [Bloomberg]

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) is eyeing counties and parastatals to revive the corporate bond market, with talks between the Nairobi bourse at various sub-nationals at an advanced stage.

Issuance of bonds by sub-national bodies, together with the launch of a hybrid over-the-counter (OTC) bond trading platform, is one of the ways the NSE plans to increase liquidity in the secondary market of fixed income.

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