ARTICLE 85
Banking and Capital Market Development
The Partner States undertake to implement within the Community, a
capital market development programme to be determined by the Council and
shall create a conducive environment for the movement of capital within the
Community. To this end, the Partner States shall:
(a)
take steps to achieve wider monetisation of the region's economies
under a liberalised market economy;
(b)
harmonise their banking Acts;
(c)
harmonise capital market policies on cross-border listing, foreign
portfolio investors, taxation of capital market transactions,
accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards, procedures
for setting commissions and other charges;
(d)
harmonise the regulatory
regulatory structures;
(e)
harmonise and implement common standards for market conduct;
(f)
harmonise policies impacting on capital markets, particularly the
granting of incentives for the development of capital markets
within the region;
(g)
promote co-operation among the stock-exchanges and capital
markets and securities regulators within the region through mutual
assistance and the exchange of information and training;
(h)
promote the establishment of a regional stock exchange within the
Community with trading floors in each of the Partner States;
(i)
ensure adherence by their appropriate national authorities to
harmonised stock trading systems, the promotion of monetary
instruments and to permitting residents of the Partner States to
acquire and negotiate monetary instruments freely within the
Community;
(j)
establish within the Community a cross listing of stocks, a rating
system of listed companies and an index of trading performance to
facilitate the negotiation and sale of shares within and external to
the Community; and
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