This year’s workshop scheduled for December 4 and 5, at
Orchid Hotels, Lekki, Lagos is coming at a period when all hands are on deck to
address the challenges facing the economy and
the capital market in particular.
This year, experts, regulators and other stakeholders will
gather to discuss the theme: “Technology as a tool for financial inclusion in
Nigeria.”
The unprecedented impact of the coronavirus pandemic
(COVID-19) has continued to force businesses to expand their possibilities and
adopt new ways of performing their duties through technology.
The association in a statement said that the theme was
predicated on the compelling need to strengthen the competitiveness of the
Nigerian economy of which the capital market is the hub of medium and long term
source of finance in the post-COVID -19 era.
Mr Olaniyi Toluwalope, who is the Managing Director/Chief
Executive Officer of eTranzact International Plc, one of Nigeria’s leading
payment technology companies, will be the guest speaker.
Toluwalope is a highly accomplished, dynamic and
result-oriented Fintech professional with solid credentials and a proven track
record in formulating and implementing operational and financial strategies,
identifying investment opportunities, structuring and negotiating multi-party
transactions.
His over 22 year career spans financial technology,
investment banking, corporate accounting, corporate finance, equity investment
advisory and research providing qualitative and quantitative investment
advisory and research to institutional investors, among others.
He gathered his
experience in global institutions including JPMorgan Securities Investment
Bank, Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston’s Investment Bank all in New
York City as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Toluwalope has provided advisory initiatives to Fortune 500
companies on mergers and acquisitions as well as equity and debt capital structuring.
Some of the key companies he advised include General
Electric, United Technologies, Danaher, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Dow Chemical,
Sherwin Williams, Apollo Capital, Bain Capital and Georgia Gulf Corporation,
among others.
He has a first degree in Accounting, and an MBA from the
prestigious University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
He Graduated as a Deans Merit Scholar and was appointed as a
Second Year Investment Banking Coach for the first year students preparing for
internships in Investment Banking.
He was elected President of the Darden African Business
Organisation, (DABO).
He was part of the global business exchange programme at
IESE Business School as a student of the University of Virginia.
For his outstanding role in leading the company’s
transformation in 2018/2019, he was recognised by the Nigerian Stock Exchange
and Business Day Newspaper as one of Nigeria’s Top 25 CEOs.
The workshop will also feature a panel of specialists from
regulatory organisations and operators in the capital market, who will discuss
and bring more perspectives to the guest speaker’s presentation.
The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Dr Lamido Yuguda, will be the special guest of honour, while the
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, FMDQ Group, Mr Bola Onadele and the
Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd., Mr Temi Popoola, will be
guests of honour.
Also, expected are the Managing Director of APT Securities
and Funds Ltd., Mallam Garba Kurfi and the Group Managing Director/ Chief
Executive Officer, GTI Capital Group, among others.
The workshop is powered by United Bank for Bank Plc (UBA), FMDQ Group, Flour Mills of Nigeria
Plc, NGX Ltd., Zenith Bank Plc, SEC, GTCO and Access Bank Plc, among others.
CAMCAN is the umbrella body for journalists in the print and
electronic media reporting activities in the nation’s capital market.
The annual workshop is part of our contributions to the
developemnt and growth of the nation’s economy by bringing regulators, operators
and company executives to discuss economic issues that affect the market in
particular and the economy in general.
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