Kenyatta opens London Stock Exchange to mark Kenyan listing
A Kenyan company has listed a bond on the International Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange, an occasion marked by Uhuru Kenyatta.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta opened the London Stock Exchange (LSE) for trading on 20 January, as a celebration of the listing of a Kenyan property development bond on the LSE’s International Securities Market (ISM).
Kenyatta was joined in the ceremony by LSE chief executive David Schwimmer and United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development Alok Sharma, as well as Edward Kirathe, the chief executive of Acorn Holdings, the company which listed the bond …