The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the London Stock Exchange say they have launched South Africa’s first electronic government bond trading platform.
The firms said in a statement on Wednesday in Johannesburg that the platform would offer an alternative to traditional fixed-income trading via telephone or chat services.
The new system offers public price transparency equivalent to that seen in currency and equity trading and will use real-time price data to enhance liquidity in the secondary market for state debt.
South Africa already has the continent’s most developed debt markets.
The JSE’s platforms are responsible for the lion’s share of the activity, while foreign investors own close to half of the country’s outstanding public debt, which is ranked among the highest in emerging markets.
Close to 1,700 debts instrument were listed on the JSE with a market value of 2.4 trillion rand (167 billion dollars) in the…
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