The Nigerian Stock Exchange Goes Live On The X-Gen Trading Platform

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has successfully rolled out its potentially fastest trading platform in Africa, X-GEN. This is a historic milestone for the capital market community and will reinforce Nigeria’s position as a regional financial center. 

The delivery of the new age technology serves as a testimony that the NSE has succeeded in achieving one of its key goals of providing 21st century technologies to support the growth of the Nigerian Capital Market Ade Bajomo, Executive Director Market Operations and Technology said,
“Today, we are trading live on X-Gen and this is a result of a focused, disciplined and intensive 12-month project involving the NSE, its technical partners and the broker dealer community.

 We believe that the successful implementation of this modern, world-class trading technology suite is a significant development that will change the experience of doing business in not only the Nigerian capital market but in Africa” The new trading platform is based on a number of leading technologies, including NASDAQ OMX’s XStream matching engine, and the NSE’s flexible and robust X-GEN Market Database, developed from scratch by the NSE and its technical partners, and will support trading of cash equities, bonds, ETFs and derivatives (from 2014), giving wider access to real time data, improved market transparency and governance. The platform is also enabled to run the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) protocol version 5. These technologies have been deployed on a highly optimized low latency network (X-Net) for trading on the floor of the Exchange and remote broker-dealer offices based in Lagos and underpinned by efficient business processes. By deploying the industry’s leading trading engine, the NSE is making it clear to the domestic and international market participants that it is dedicated to operating a high performance, low latency, robust, scalable and flexible marketplace. Mr Oscar Onyema, CEO of the NSE, said: “The Nigerian Stock Exchange has always been focused on investing in technology, but with X-GEN our trading platform is now among the most advanced in the world and that further extends our leadership position in Africa