Rwanda joins regional stock exchanges in data vending as trading income falters

More than 10,000 new investors joined the RSE in 2023 enticed by the promising prospects of expanded range of investment products. Shutterstock

East African stock markets are pursuing additional revenue raising prospects in data vending business to cushion against faltering trading incomes, linked to declining equity market performances across the region.

Rwanda Stock Exchange (RSE) is the latest entrant into the business that the regional exchanges are viewing as an important source of revenue in turning around their financial fortunes, battered by declining share trading activities and shrinking proposals for rights issues and initial public offerings (IPOs).