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Fidelity Bank, FMDQ, UBA, CSCS For CAMCAN 2025 Workshop

 

Amaka Obiefuna

 

 

CAMCAN Sets 2025 Workshop Agenda, Highlights ISA Reforms and Investment Climate

The Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CAMCAN) has concluded plans to host its 2025 annual workshop, a key engagement platform designed to deepen dialogue and strengthen policy direction across Nigeria’s capital market and the wider economy.

The workshop scheduled for December 6 and 7, 2025, at Orchid Hotels, Ajah, Lagos, will focus on the theme: “Regulatory Reforms: ISA 2025 and Nigeria’s Investment Climate.”

The theme underscores the increasing urgency for coordinated regulatory reforms to stabilise the financial system, enhance investor confidence, and reposition the market for global competitiveness.

In a statement, CAMCAN said the workshop will highlight how the forthcoming Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2025 is expected to serve as a transformative legal framework capable of driving the depth, efficiency, and innovation required in Nigeria’s capital market.

The association described the Act as a forward-looking instrument that goes beyond merely replacing the 2007 legislation.

According to CAMCAN, ISA 2025 will strengthen the Securities and Exchange Commission by explicitly defining its regulatory objectives, powers, and functions—ranging from investor protection and market transparency to curbing unlawful practices, reducing systemic risk, and supporting capital formation.

The clarity of mandate, it added, is one of the most significant improvements expected to advance market governance and align Nigeria with international best practices while addressing domestic peculiarities.

The two-day workshop is expected to convene regulators, market operators, economists, bank executives, and other stakeholders for strategic discussions around the evolving investment climate.

The Director-General of the SEC, Dr Emomotimi Agama, will attend as the Special Guest of Honour.

The Chairman of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc, Alhaji Umaru Kwairanga, will chair the event, while the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of GTI Group, Mr Abubakar Lawal, will deliver the keynote address.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Group, Mr Temi Popoola, and the Group Chief Operating Officer of FMDQ Group, Ms. Tumi Sekoni, will serve as guests of honour.

A panel session featuring representatives from key regulatory bodies and capital market institutions will further dissect the keynote address, offering expert perspectives on reform priorities and market development strategies.

CAMCAN noted that its annual workshop remains central to its mandate of promoting market development through research, advocacy, and sustained engagement.

The 2025 edition, it said, will contribute significantly to ongoing conversations around economic stability, investor protection, and market modernisation.

As Nigeria continues to navigate macroeconomic headwinds, the deliberations and recommendations arising from the workshop are expected to guide policy adjustments and industry strategies geared toward building a stronger financial system and a more resilient capital market.

FMDQ Group Plc will lead the list of sponsors for the event.

Other sponsors include Fidelity Bank, United Bank for Africa, NGX Group, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Seplat Energy, Central Securities Clearing System, Oando, Zenith Bank, Access Corporation, FBN Holdings, United Capital, FCMB, VFD Group and Nestlé Nigeria, among others.

SEC vows Intensified Collaboration To Prosecute Ponzi Scheme Perpetrators 

SEC vows intensified collaboration to prosecute Ponzi scheme perpetrators |  Western Post
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reaffirmed commitment to strengthen inter-agency collaborations to identify and prosecute the promoters of Ponzi schemes in line with the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2025.
The Divisional Head, Legal and Enforcement, SEC, Mr John Achile, said this at the commission’s Journalists’ Academy 2025 in Lagos.
Achille said the commission would strengthen various interagency collaborations to identify the promoters and those trading the assets.
He said SEC would continue to ensure criminal investigation/prosecution in collaboration with law enforcement agencies such as the Nigeria Police Force, EFCC and Office of Attorney General of the Federation among others.
Speaking on the topic: “Combating Investments Fraud, Ponzi Schemes and Illegal Investments,” he said the commission would continue to freeze the accounts and seal-up offices of the preparators.
Highlighting the characteristics of Ponzi scheme, Achile said it requires the entrance of new investors to pay existing investors.
According to him, investors are usually provided with fake documents or incomplete documents.
He listed other characteristics to include high returns on investment with little or no risk, consistent promise of positive returns despite the economics difficulties, not registered by the appropriate regulatory agencies and promoters not known to the regulators.
He urged Nigerians to conduct thorough due diligence and be skeptical of “get-rich-quick” promises in order not to burn their hands.
He called on investors to enquire from regulators of the sector of business touted before investing.
“Ponzi scheme could be structured as investment in agricultural business or processing along the value chain, investment in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency or other digital currencies and investment in gold coins or precious stones,” he said.
He noted that Ponzi scheme undermines confidence in the financial markets, loss of confidence in the regulator and the government  when failurw occurs, reduces deposit in commercial banks, diversion of savings, huge scale of loses to investors and attendant socio-economic problems.