by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Content
In an information environment thick with rumour and forecast, the launch of a securities exchange is that rare event which arrives with primary documents attached. On 10 January 2025, Ethiopia launched its securities exchange as a central institution in its effort to...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Profiles
African institutions too often ride on a single figure and stall the moment that person leaves. A securities exchange is the opposite bet: it is designed to outlast any individual, pricing assets and enforcing disclosure long after the founders have gone. On 10...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Money
A new stock exchange is usually sold as an opportunity. The harder truth is that opportunity and risk are the same instrument read from opposite ends. On 10 January 2025, Ethiopia launched a securities exchange as a central institution in its effort to mobilise...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Lifestyle
A stock exchange rarely appears in a traveller’s guide to Addis Ababa, yet the institutions that anchor a city — its financial district, its business hotels, its conference calendar — shape the lived economy as much as its museums and mountains. On 10 January...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jan 10, 2025 | Consumers
A market can exist on paper long before anyone uses it. Ethiopia’s new securities exchange faces exactly that gap between institution and adoption: the venue now exists, but the customer who buys a share, opens a brokerage account or trusts a settlement system...