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Retail investors win big as Nairobi bourse drops 100 minimum shares

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From left: Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) CEO Frank Mwiti, NSE EmpowerHER Lead Demi Murila, Chief of Staff in the Office of the First Lady Mary Muinde and NSE Chairman Kiprono Kittony ring the bell to launch the NSE EmpowerHER Patron's Circle in May 2025. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

Retail investors at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) will, from August 1, be able to buy and sell shares in multiples of one as the market does away with the old rule that required investors to buy shares in lots of 100.

This is after the bourse received approval from the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to amend the Equity Trading Rules, which restricted trading to 100 shares.

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