{"id":239474,"date":"2026-01-16T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/just-in-sec-raises-minimum-capital-requirements-for-all-capital-market-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T08:50:22","slug":"just-in-sec-raises-minimum-capital-requirements-for-all-capital-market-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/just-in-sec-raises-minimum-capital-requirements-for-all-capital-market-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: SEC Raises Minimum Capital Requirements for All Capital Market Operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<p><!-- .entry-header-outer \/--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"163\">The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced an increase in the minimum capital requirements for all categories of capital market operators (CMOs).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"341\">According to a circular issued by the Commission on January 16, 2026, the move replaces the long-standing 2015 capital regime and sets a compliance deadline of June 30, 2027.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"719\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Under the revised framework, the capital base for tier 2 \u201cissuing houses with underwriting\u201d has been raised to N7 billion from N200 million, while trustees are now required to maintain N2 billion, up from N300 million.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"719\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The new policy is designed to strengthen market resilience, eliminate undercapitalised operators, and reward firms demonstrating strong governance and scale.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced an increase in the minimum capital requirements for all categories of capital market operators (CMOs). According to a circular issued by the Commission on January 16, 2026, the move replaces the long-standing 2015 capital regime and sets a compliance deadline of June 30, 2027. Under the revised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SEC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}