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The Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’), Nigerian Communications Commission (‘NCC’), the National Pension Commission (‘PenCom’), the Nigeria Revenue Service...

The Investment and Securities Act, 2025 (ISA 2025) represents a significant regulatory development, particularly for those operating in and around digital asset markets including Fintech. In our previous newsletter*, we highlighted the important changes made to the capital market by the ISA 2025.

Rather than creating an entirely new bureaucracy, the CBN's fintech regulatory capacity can be strengthened by establishing a specialized department or bureau within the CBN to handle digital finance.

By the time ‘The Nigerian Capital Market Master Plan 2015-2025' was launched by the SEC in November 2015, as a 10-year road map for developing the country's capital market into a global financial center, ...

Effective internal control as a critical aspect in an organisation became more pertinent for business functions in the early 2000s when accounting scandals were prominent in companies in the United States of America (USA).

Crowdfunding in Nigeria is a means through which businesses can raise capital by pooling together small amounts of money from a large number of people instead of raising funds from few investors.

For more than a decade, public companies in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Turkey, and more have been required to implement Internal Control over Financial Reporting, especially as part of issuer audits.

On 24th November, 2020, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, published the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act Merger Review Regulations, 2020.

In practical terms, the Guidelines introduce a significant recalibration of the prudential baseline for a broad range of operators. The reforms affect not only firms seeking new registration...

The financial sector - banking, capital markets and securities, insurance, as with any other sector of the economy, is vital to Nigeria's growth and development, thus it is crucial to properly safeguard it by means of laws, adequate supervision and monitoring.

In July 2024, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (the "Commission") released an exposure draft of amendments to the Commission's Decommissioning...

The Arbitration and Conciliation Act ("the Arbitration Act") itself needs a total overhaul and urgent amendment. Though, Sections 4 and 5 of the Arbitration Act empowers the Court to...

We have highlighted in this article the eligibility criteria and other relevant information for technology companies that wish to be listed on the Technology Board.

The enactment of the Investments and Securities Act, 2025 ("ISA 2025") marks a significant strengthening of the Securities and Exchange Commission's...

The enactment of the Investments and Securities Act, 2025 ("ISA 2025") marks a significant strengthening of the Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC" or "Commission") regulatory...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (the "CBN") on 28th March, 2024, issued a circular announcing an upward review of minimum capital requirements for banks in Nigeria thereby...

The enactment of Finance Act, 2021 reinforces the Federal Government's commitment to periodic review of the extant tax laws and progressive changes to Nigeria's fiscal frameworks to align them...

Robo-Advisors (sometimes spelt as Robo-Advisers) are digital investment advisory platforms that provide automated, algorithm-driven financial planning services with little to no human supervision.