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The MERJ Exchange, the national securities exchange of Seychelles, has extended its $4 million initial public offer (IPO) to 28 February in the form of tokenized shares. The exchange already listed the tokens on itself by introduction on 7 August 2019 and opened the IPO on 10 September. The exchange, previously known as Trop-X, says […]
Ethiopia has set itself a tight timetable for economic reform, including privatization of telecoms by the end of 2019 and a domestic stock exchange by 2020. A World Bank team was due to arrive in Addis Ababa in December to provide technical help to develop the capital market. Last week Financial Times repeated the timetable […]
Momentum building ahead of the key event for the stock exchange community, the World Exchanges Congress, now in its 11th year and back in central London from 22-23 March.
PLUS Markets, a British-regulated investment exchange for trading the shares of small companies, has put itself up for sale on 3 Feb.