Nairobi, Sept. 20 -- SBG Securities has set sights on facilitating nearly all retail shares deals online in two years, saving clients time spent queuing at the firm's outlets to trade in shares at the NSE.
The subsidiary of Stanbic Holdings Plc has since late 2010 been investing in online trading platforms aimed at enabling retail investors to order, monitor in real time market information and sell shares as well as make payments remotely.
SBG first launched its iTrader - an online trading platform- in November 2010 followed by M-Shares in September 2017 which allows trading via feature phones.
Mr Gregory Waweru, head of SBG Securities, said more than 80 percent of deals from trading to payments are done online from about a third in 2017...