Foreign Investors Regulations

The regulation provides categories of investors as local and foreign investors. A local investor, if an individual, is a natural person who is a citizen of an East African Community Partner State while, if a body corporate, is a company or anybody corporate established or incorporated under the Companies Act of under the provisions of…

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Security Lending, Borrowing and Short-Selling Regulations

Securities lending and borrowing The regulation covers transactions involving the lending and borrowing of securities. These transactions must be conducted according to the regulations, and where there is a need for an exemption for a sell buy-back or a transaction similar to securities lending, the exemption must be sort from the authority. The parties intending…

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Registered Venture Capital Companies Regulations

A person that intends to operate under the venture capital sphere is generally registered under the Companies Act. However, that does not designate it as a “registered venture capital company” because it only takes effect upon registering it as a “venture capital company” by the CMA. An entity intending to operate as a venture capital…

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Online Foreign Exchange Trading Regulations

The regulation covers entities that intend to operate an online trading platform as dealing or non-dealing broker and money managers. An entity interested in operating in the mentioned fields will make an application subject to the regulatory requirements and where necessary, the regulator may request additional documents. The regulator will not refuse to issue a…

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