Why Kenya opted out of EAC project to link stock markets

Online trading at the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The CMI would have linked the NSE with other EAC stock exchanges. FILE PHOTO | NATION

Kenya has opted out of the East African capital markets integration (CMI) project that is to be effected later this year in a bid to make trading in shares quicker and cheaper.

In a letter written to the EAC Secretariat in mid-November, Kenya said it would not join Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda to launch the platform in September, suggesting it had concerns on the infrastructure.