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FarloFX Signals New Era of Regulated, Scalable Trading for UK, Emerging Markets
By Adedapo Adesanya
As fintech momentum accelerates across Africa and other emerging markets, a new kind of infrastructure is quietly taking shape, one engineered not just for access, but for trust, transparency, and long-term financial integration.
At the heart of this movement is Mr Kenny Farinloye, a UK-trained fintech entrepreneur and market strategist, whose latest venture, FarloFX, aims to redefine how traders from Lagos to Lima participate in global financial markets.
FarloFX, a next-generation digital trading platform currently under development, is being built from the ground up to meet the sophisticated needs of traders in emerging markets. Unlike many offshore platforms that rely on speed without oversight, FarloFX fuses UK-aligned regulatory standards, Tier-1 liquidity partnerships, and mobile-first design into a seamless experience for both retail and semi-professional users.
FarloFX reiterated that this isn’t just a software product; it’s a full-stack infrastructure solution engineered for global interoperability, local resilience, and regulatory clarity.
Mr Farinloye’s recent recognition as an Associate Member (ACSI®) of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) solidifies his credentials as a global player with a deep alignment to UK financial governance. The CISI, a body that sets the bar for ethics and best practices in the investment profession, serves as an institutional benchmark for financial excellence in the UK and globally.
“My CISI membership is not a vanity metric,” Mr Farinloye explains in a statement shared with Business Post, “It’s an operating philosophy. At FarloFX, we are embedding global standards into the platform’s DNA. We’re not retrofitting compliance, we’re building with it from day one.”
This approach distinguishes FarloFX in a crowded field of high-risk brokers, opaque exchanges, and marketing-driven copy-trading platforms that often dominate the emerging markets space. In contrast, FarloFX offers an execution-first, compliance-rooted trading ecosystem that’s designed to last.
The firm noted that while the product is still in development, it is already gaining momentum. FarloFX has already attracted interest from regional trading communities, financial educators, and fintech partnerships across Africa and Latin America. A growing waitlist of over 3,000 users (Join the waitlist) reflects rising demand for platforms that balance accessibility and credibility, especially in regions where inflation, currency instability, and cross-border payment challenges are part of daily life.
The development team is currently finalizing integrations with FCA-authorised Appointed Representatives (ARs) and UK-based Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), allowing FarloFX to facilitate low-latency execution and cross-border transactions that comply with both local needs and international law.
With a hybrid compliance model and Tier-1 liquidity sourced from London, Africa and continental Europe, FarloFX says it is shaping up to become a trusted gateway between global financial markets and frontier economies.
The timing couldn’t be more strategic as emerging markets are entering a new era of digitised participation in global finance. However, systemic challenges remain as lack of regulation, poor infrastructure, limited payment interoperability, and volatile pricing environments act as barriers.
Despite this, retail investor interest in forex, commodities, and synthetic markets is surging. In Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Brazil, Vietnam, and the Philippines, new traders are flooding into Telegram groups, YouTube channels, and trading apps, but most lack access to platforms that offer transparent pricing, localized support, or regulated backing.
FarloFX sees this not as a problem to exploit, but as an ecosystem to upgrade.
“There are 100 million traders coming online in the next decade from emerging markets,” Mr Farinloye said, adding that “They need platforms they can trust, tools that help them grow, and infrastructure that protects them from fraud, latency, and broken systems.”
With features like copy trading, on-chain analytics, multi-language onboarding, and eventually educational modules and compliance dashboards, FarloFX aims to become the central trading hub for a digitally connected, financially ambitious generation.
In addition to leading FarloFX, Mr Kenny Farinloye is also the Co-Founder of 1.2 Capital, a New York-based hedge fund and digital asset infrastructure firm he runs alongside Sebastian Purcell. This dual-track leadership gives him a unique ability to connect the dots between institutional capital markets and the realities of grassroots user behaviour in emerging economies, bridging two worlds that often operate in silos.
From London to Lagos, Kenny’s work reflects a growing class of African-born, globally trained fintech builders who are not only creating platforms but setting the regulatory tone for the next wave of digital finance.
Industry observers believe this is only the beginning. As global liquidity seeks new markets and infrastructure gaps widen across frontier economies, solutions like FarloFX represent a leap forward, not only technologically, but ethically.
FarloFX will roll out in phases, beginning with closed beta testing in selected markets. The company is also working on a series of strategic partnerships with regional fintechs, educational networks, and payment aggregators to ensure it can deliver both high-end functionality and grassroots access.
The long-term ambition is clear: to become the dominant digital trading ecosystem for emerging markets, not through hype or shortcuts, but by creating infrastructure that connects local users to global liquidity with precision, speed, and trust.
As digital finance continues to decentralize and democratize, FarloFX stands at the intersection of global regulatory sophistication and emerging market pragmatism, a rare place and an important one.
By Dipo Olowookere
On the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited last week, investors transacted 3.648 billion shares worth N220.568 billion in 251,861 deals compared with the 3.821 billion shares valued at N154.393 billion traded in 258,567 deals a week earlier.
Analysis showed that financial stocks led the activity chart with 2.899 billion units sold for N147.360 billion in 106,603 deals, accounting for 79.48 per cent and 66.81 per cent of the total trading volume and value, respectively.
Services equities recorded a turnover of 164.914 million units valued at N3.615 billion in 16,375 deals, and the consumer goods shares exchanged 157.451 million units worth N7.777 billion in 27,950 deals.
First Holdco, Zenith Bank, and Fidelity Bank were the busiest stocks for the five-day trading week, trading 1.745 billion units valued at N121.828 billion in 31,053 deals, contributing 47.85 per cent and 55.23 per cent to the total trading volume and value, respectively.
Business Post reports that 60 equities appreciated during the week versus 22 equities in the previous week, 28 shares depreciated versus 57 shares of the preceding week, and 58 stocks closed flat versus 67 stocks of the previous week.
International Breweries gained 40.00 per cent to trade at N13.30, RT Briscoe expanded by 32.02 per cent to N13.40, Livestock Feeds improved by 28.47 per cent to N9.25, First Holdco chalked up 25.82 per cent to close at N69.20, and Abbey Bank rose by 23.65 per cent to N9.15.
On the flip side, McNichols lost 28.57 per cent to finish at N5.00, Thomas Wyatt gave up 11.64 per cent to quote at N2.43, Geregu Power declined by 10.00 per cent to N825.70, CAP shed 9.99 per cent to settle at N157.60, and Guinness Nigeria also slipped by 9.99 per cent to N329.00.
Customs Street was under buying pressure last week, making the All-Share Index (ASI) and the market capitalisation close higher by 6.35 per cent to 243,798.76 points and N156.445 trillion, respectively.
In the same vein, all other indices finished higher apart from the growth and sovereign bond indices, which depreciated by 7.43 per cent and 0.02 per cent, respectively.
By Adedapo Adesanya
The NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) Securities Exchange rose by 2.30 per cent, spurring the NASD Security Index (NSI) to close higher by 96.61 points to 4,296.34 points from 4,199.73 points, and raising the market capitalisation by N57.99 billion to N2.578 trillion from N2.521 trillion.
The market was up yesterday despite a lower activity level, as the volume of securities traded slumped by 94.7 per cent to 1.3 million units from the previous 23.9 million units. The value of securities slipped by 57.2 per cent to N29.2 million from the preceding session’s N68.2 million, while the number of deals executed by market participants increased by 6.7 per cent to 32 deals from the 30 deals carried out on Thursday.
At the close of transactions, Great Nigeria Insurance (GNI) Plc remained the most traded stock by value on a year-to-date basis, with a turnover of 3.4 billion units worth N8.4 billion, trailed by Infrastructure Credit Guarantee (Infracredit) Plc with 2.3 billion units valued at N6.5 billion in trades, and Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc with 70.8 million units traded for N4.9 billion.
GNI Plc was also the most traded stock by volume on a year-to-date basis, with 3.4 billion units sold for N8.4 billion, followed by Infracredit Plc with 2.3 billion units exchanged for N6.5 billion, and Resourcery Plc with 1.1 billion units transacted for N415.7 million.
During the trading day, there were three price gainers and two price losers, led by Afriland Properties Plc, which shed N1.48 to sell at N15.17 per share compared with the previous session’s N16.65 per share, and Food Concepts Plc, which slid by 7 Kobo to close at N2.69 per unit versus N2.76 per unit.
Conversely, FrieslandCampina Wamco Nigeria Plc improved its value by N9.50 to trade at N150.00 per share compared with Thursday’s closing price of N140.50 per share, CSCS Plc went up by N7.95 to N89.65 per unit from N81.70 per unit, and 11 Plc soared by N6.94 to N206.95 per share from N200.01 per share.
By Dipo Olowookere
The Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited lost its footing by 0.07 per cent on Friday as a result of renewed profit-taking by investors.
The fall happened after Thomas Wyatt and Guinness Nigeria led other price losers group comprising 27 stocks at the market yesterday due to selling pressure.
Thomas Wyatt Nigeria shed 10.00 per cent to quote at N2.70, Guinness Nigeria drowned by 9.99 per cent to close at N329.00, Ikeja Hotel slipped by 9.96 per cent to N42.50, Zichis shed 9.94 per cent to trade at N26.37, and McNichols depreciated by 9.91 per cent to N5.00.
On the flip side, International Breweries gained 9.92 per cent to finish at N13.30, NEM Insurance appreciated by 9.61 per cent to N27.95, Jaiz Bank grew by 6.36 per cent to N9.20, UPDC expanded by 6.33 per cent to N4.20, and Livestock Feeds increased by 6.32 per cent to N9.25.
Business Post reports that investor sentiment remained bullish despite the loss recorded during the session, as there were 27 price decliners and 30 price advancers, representing a positive market breadth index.
Yesterday, market participants transacted 441.3 million equities for N19.4 billion in 44,938 deals compared with the 1.7 billion equities worth N112.0 billion traded in 44,780 deals a day earlier. This showed that the trading volume contracted by 74.04 per cent, the trading value declined by 82.68 per cent, and an uptick in the number of deals by 0.35 per cent.
Access Holdings led the activity chart on Friday after selling 40.2 million shares valued at N1.0 billion, Sterling Holdco traded 30.3 million stocks worth N228.8 million, Fidelity Bank sold 26.3 million equities for N505.6 million, Zenith Bank transacted 22.3 million shares valued at N2.5 billion, and First Holdco exchanged 19.0 million stocks worth N1.3 billion.
During the last trading session of the week, the consumer goods sector rose by 0.49 per cent, the insurance counter increased by 0.06 per cent, and the industrial goods index closed flat, while the banking and energy indices lost 0.78 per cent and 0.52 per cent, respectively.
As a result, the All-Share Index (ASI) shrank by 159.97 points to 243,798.76 points from 243,958.73 points, and the market capitalisation moderated by N103 billion to N156.445 trillion from N156.548 trillion.
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