{"id":135413,"date":"2016-09-02T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135413"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:12:21","slug":"south-africas-newest-stock-exchange-gets-a-trading-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/135413\/south-africas-newest-stock-exchange-gets-a-trading-date\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s newest stock exchange gets a trading date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/160638-zar-x-south-africas-new-stock-exchange.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ZAR X<\/strong><\/a>, South Africa\u2019s newest stock exchange, has been granted a licence to operate a stock exchange by the Financial Services Board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings to an end the era in South Africa where the sector was monopolised and dominated by a single player for company listings and share trading,\u201d said ZAR X.<\/p>\n<p>ZAR X CEO Etienne Nel said \u201cthe approval signifies a new era in tech-friendly and user-focussed share trading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ZAR X offers investors T+0 settlements, and will\u00a0initially offer a primary board for conventional company listings, an investment entities board that will cater for structured products and exchange traded funds, a \u201crestricted market\u201d for BEE shares, and\u00a0Agri shares and other restricted securities.<\/p>\n<p>ZAR X will commence operations on 5 September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to announce that Senwes and Senwesbel will be the first companies to list and will commence trading on 3 October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther companies that have committed to listing on ZAR X are now able to commence with their listings process.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ZAR X<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/119551\/meet-south-africas-new-stock-exchange-zar-x\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Meet South Africa\u2019s new stock exchange \u2013 ZAR X<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Did you know that Cape Town once had a stock exchange?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/118702\/did-you-know-that-cape-town-once-had-a-stock-exchange\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Did you know that Cape Town once had a stock exchange?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAR X, South Africa\u2019s newest stock exchange, has been granted a licence to operate a stock exchange by the Financial Services Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":119553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,9872],"tags":[25,11595,10975],"class_list":["post-135413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-business","tag-active","tag-more-on-zar-x-did-you-know-that-cape-town-once-had-a-stock-exchange","tag-zar-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135415,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135413\/revisions\/135415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}