The capital markets industry stakeholders have unveiled a raft of measures designed to ensure business continuity and support the national strategy to manage the impact of the Coronavirus.
The industry players have collaborated to mitigate disruption in capital markets by ensuring that the trading and settlement systems continue functioning to support transactions. In meeting this objective, the focus has been on the operational resilience of market infrastructure, the operational capability of market intermediaries and the continued flow of information to the market. The Capital Markets Authority (CMA) has also provided the appropriate regulatory flexibility to help listed companies and market intermediaries address the challenges posed the need for social distancing occasioned by COVID-19 while ensuring that market integrity and investor protection principles are maintained.
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