10 Banks Facilitate N26tn Investment in Currency, Fixed Income Securities
Access Bank Plc, Ecobank Nigeria Limited and United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc led the top 10 banks that facilitated investment in fixed securities and currency worth about N37trillion on the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange in the first three months of 2017, according to data released by FMDQ.
The date indicated that the top 10 banks accounted for N25.8 trillion or 70.8 per cent of the transactions.
Access Bank Plc, Ecobank Nigeria Limited and UBA led the banks, topping the League Table for the third month running, ranking first, second and third positions respectively in the value traded for the OTC market. The three banks accounted for about N11 trillion or 30.4 per cent of the transactions during the review period.
The FMDQ OTC has facilitated transactions of securities and currency valued over N340.9 trillion since it commenced operations in 2013.
FMDQ OTC was licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2013 as an OTC securities exchange and self-regulatory organisation to run the fixed income trading platform and organise the market to international standards.
The coming of FMDQ OTC has significantly boosted the fixed income market.
On the average the platform has enabled a yearly average transaction of N114 trillion, which is a significant improvement compared to the N39.693 trillion recorded a year before the platform commenced operations.
An analysis of the yearly transaction data obtained from FMDQ OTC showed that N103.57 trillion was recorded in 2014, which rose to N137.43 trillion in 2015. However, it dropped to N99.98 trillion last year, apparently due to the challenges in the foreign exchange market in 2016.
A further analysis of the transactions indicates that Treasury Bills accounted for the highest value of N113.29 trillion, followed by repurchased agreements/buy buy-backs, which recorded N83.86 trillion. Foreign exchange accounted for N72.81 trillion, while federal government bonds recorded N25.92 trillion. Foreign exchange derivatives accounted for N23.02 trillion just as unsecured placements/takings recorded N17 trillion among others.
With a mission “to empower financial markets to be innovative and credible in support of the Nigerian economy,” a vision “to be number one in Africa in the fixed income and currency market by 2019, FMDQ OTC is seen as a revolution in the financial sector.
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FMDQ
OTC, Mr. Bola Onadele. Koko had always assured that stakeholders should expect better deal from the platform in the years ahead.
According to him, having succeeded in turning around the market, the next move is to bring more innovations that will benefit all stakeholders and make the platform more attractive to issuers and investors.
The FMDQ OTC recently set up the Debt Capital Market Development (DCMD) Project to ensure the effective implementation of the recommendations drawn its debt capital market (DCM) workshop in 2015.
“The DCMD Project, having received the unrivalled support of the apex regulator, SEC, was officially launched during the Commission’s third Quarter Capital Market Committee Meeting, on November 24, 2016. Its focus on identifying and implementing quick-win strategies that would transform the Nigerian DCM into a worldclass, properly functioning DCM by 2020 drawing strongly from SEC’s 10-year Nigerian Capital Market Master Plan (NCMMP).