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Could this be the end for stockbroking firms in Nigeria?

Alfred Akuki by Alfred Akuki
November 28, 2018
in Business News, Company News, Spotlight
Reggie Middleton, Veritaseum, Stockbrokers, NSE, Blockchain, NSE, ASEA 2018

Reggie Middleton, Disruptor in Chief, Veritaseum.

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In what might be the end for stockbroking firms in Nigeria and Africa at large, Veritaseum, a United States-based blockchain technology firm has hinted that the introduction of blockchain technology into Africa’s capital market will eliminate the services of middlemen and thereby reducing transaction time.

Reggie Middleton, the Disruptor in Chief as he likes to call himself, in an exclusive interview with Nairametrics at the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA) annual conference themed ‘Champions on the rise: Africa’s ascension to a more sustainable future’ held at the Lagos Oriental Hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, revealed that several stock exchanges in Africa are in talks with his firm and on conclusion could see the markets adopting blockchain technology for trading processes.

“I am looking at signing agreements with several exchanges and I feel we are very close, I don’t want to reveal other private information and I expect them signed before I go back to New York.” – Middleton

Middleton – who was also a panellist during the ASEA Conference’s Pathways to Inclusive Growth in Africa: Digital Finance, Financial Literacy, Inclusion and the Democratisation of wealth Panel discussion – said if stockbrokers across Africa don’t diversify, they might be phased out as a result of this disruption.

R-L: Patience Oniha, DMO DG, Jubril Enakele CEO Zenith Capital, Herbert Wigwe, GMD Access Bank, Reggie Middleton, Disruptor in Chief, Veritaseum.

The game changer

A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography (the practice of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties). Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree root hash).

By design, a blockchain is resistant to modification of the data. It is an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for inter-node communication and validating new blocks. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires a consensus of the network majority.

If the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) eventually introduces this technology into its trading processes, it will eliminate stockbrokers as middlemen, thereby leaving public and retail investors to directly buy and sell stocks during trading sessions. Except stockbrokers in Nigeria diversify, it will be difficult for them to function with the emergence of blockchain in the stock market.

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Comments 5

  1. Mo says:
    November 28, 2018 at 8:10 am

    Has this technology also eliminated stockbrokers in the USA

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  2. Anonymous says:
    November 28, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    No. No matter how you trade: real time or not you still need a platform on which to trade which only brokers can provide. However they will need to change their current business model in order to survive. Because the competition will be stiffer. Only the innovative will survive. In the US. you stil have the likes of ETRADE, SCOTTRADE, CHARLES SWAB ETC. and even Banks that offer trading platforms.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    November 28, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    No question and answer session for the public to get enlightened on this innovation than the time bomb you dropped into the air space. Our journalists in this part of the world require more training.Your article should tell us how the technology would work independent of the brokers.

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  4. Eze says:
    November 30, 2018 at 4:42 am

    Reggie Middleton can be a blowhard and alarmist. Brokers are doing just fine in the USA the home if block chain.

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  5. Anodebenze says:
    December 4, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    You have all said it,in your article.it is the same,the same process.blockchain,i think is the linking things faster and moving things faster than the present process.if you look at international brokers,if you uses any international broker from Nigeria,they are using this international broker

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