{"id":58990,"date":"2025-01-06T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T10:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58990"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T10:56:02","slug":"sec-intensifies-crackdown-on-ponzi-schemes-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/06\/sec-intensifies-crackdown-on-ponzi-schemes-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Intensifies Crackdown on Ponzi Schemes in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has announced stricter measures against Ponzi and pyramid schemes as part of its 2025 strategic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>SEC Director-General, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, disclosed this in a New Year address to the capital market community.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Agama emphasized the commission\u2019s focus on enhancing market integrity, boosting investor confidence, and fostering economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted plans to strengthen enforcement mechanisms, improve regulatory oversight, and revamp investigative processes to curb financial misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing insider trading, the SEC aims to tighten detection and prevention measures while enhancing transparency in securities transactions.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure swift resolution of market disputes, the Investments and Securities Tribunal (IST), will undergo operational enhancements.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC also plans to strengthen the legal framework governing Nigeria\u2019s commodities market, recognizing its role in economic development.<\/p>\n<p>These initiatives align with the SEC\u2019s vision for a more resilient and inclusive capital market, reinforcing investor trust and driving sustainable financial growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has announced stricter measures against Ponzi and pyramid schemes as part of its 2025 strategic agenda. SEC Director-General, Dr. Emomotimi Agama, disclosed this in a New Year address to the capital market community. Dr. Agama emphasized the commission\u2019s focus on enhancing market integrity, boosting investor confidence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58992,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58990\/revisions\/58992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}