The Stock Exchange of Mauritius (SEM) has won for the second consecutive year the “Most Innovative African Stock Exchange of the year Award” at the Institutional Investment Summit and Index Series Awards organised by Africa investor (Ai), a leading international research and communication group, in collaboration with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext.
The Award was presented to the SEM at the New York Stock Exchange on 21st September 2012. The Ai/NYSE Euronext Investment Summit is now firmly established as a calendar event and platform to profile African Capital Markets opportunities to the international investment community. The Ai Index Series Awards aims at rewarding different categories of players within the capital markets sphere, including stock exchanges, socially responsible companies, regulators, listed companies, investment banks, stockbroking companies, research teams and fund managers. The Award in the “Most Innovative African Stock Exchange” category was given on the basis of a number of criteria, including, amongst others, initiatives implemented by the Exchange to embrace new areas of development, programmes in place to enhance the services it provides to its key stakeholders and compliance of the Exchange’s regulatory and operational set-up with international standards. Commenting on the Award received by the SEM, Mr. Gaetan Lan Hun Kuen, Chairman of the SEM said: “This Award for the second consecutive year comes as a recognition of the numerous initiatives taken recently by the SEM, with the active support of the Ministry of Finance, the FSC, the BOI and other private sector operators to scale up its activities and move up the value-chain of products and services it offers. In spite of the very difficult market environment, the SEM has been actively pursuing an internationalisation strategy to position itself as an attractive listing, trading and capital-raising platform for Global funds, Global business companies, specialist-debt products, and African based ventures. We would also like to congratulate the FSC for winning the “Most Innovative Capital Market Regulator of The Year Award.” The other nominees in the “Most Innovative African Stock Exchange” category were Johannesburg Stock Exchange, The Egyptian Exchange, Casablanca Stock Exchange, Nigeria Stock Exchange, Nairobi Stock Exchange, Ghana Stock Exchange , Botswana Stock Exchange and Uganda Stock Exchange.
Source: SEM
