SEC Deepens Monitoring on Ghana Stock Exchange

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set up a monitoring team to ensure all firms abide by the conditions associated with their listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE).

According to the commission, it soon crack the whip on firms that default on their listing obligations. Already some firms have been given up to December 2018 to get their financial records in order or risk being delisted.

In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM and monitored by Ghanatalksbusiness, at the sidelines of the 2018 Capital Market Week celebrations, Deputy Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Ababio said robust measures are needed to create a healthy capital market.

“If you are a regulated entity you have to comply with the regulatory requirement and part of that comes from how you make decisions. For instance from the nature of your portfolio, if a fund manager is investing a very risky portfolio, the board of directors has the responsibility to ensure that the portfolio represents the mandate of the investors”, he said.

Deputy Director General of SEC added that “So having a strong corporate governance framework ensures that decisions are made in the best interest of the investing public. So that is part of that framework and also to make the right disclosures to the regulator. Actually in the law as it stands now, Directors of these firms will be held accountable, when they file their returns to us”.

“We will be monitoring them much more closely and we are keeping a record of firms that have defaulted and what actions we will take on them from our findings”, he stressed.