尼日利亚证券交易所的首席执行官表示，Dangote公司价值16亿美元的炼油厂IPO有望使该国活跃的投资者数量增加五倍，并希望此举能加深尼日利亚与其他非洲市场的联系。
Dangote's $1.6 billion refinery IPO could grow Nigeria's active investor base fivefold, said the CEO of the country's stock exchange, which hopes it will deepen links with other African markets.
亿万富翁Aliko Dangote本月早些时候推出了非洲历史上规模最大的IPO，旨在吸引数百万散户投资者。该股票的发行将持续到10月底。
Billionaire Aliko Dangote launched what would be Africa's biggest IPO earlier this month, aiming to bring in millions of retail investors. The offer runs until end-October.
Temi Popoola表示，尼日利亚证券交易所正通过此次IPO加强与埃及、肯尼亚、博茨瓦纳和埃塞俄比亚等国家的证券交易所的合作；相关存托凭证安排已经到位或正在等待审批中。
Temi Popoola said the Nigerian Exchange Group was using the offering to deepen links with bourses from Egypt and Kenya to Botswana and Ethiopia, with depositary receipt arrangements either in place or awaiting approval.
“非洲的互联互通不仅仅停留在口头承诺上，而是通过实际行动实现的，”Popoola在《金融时报非洲峰会》上对路透社说道。
"Africa is being connected not just by rhetoric, but (by) real solutions on the ground," Popoola told Reuters at the Financial Times Africa Summit.
据Popoola介绍，只有约5%的尼日利亚人（约1200万人）参与资本市场活动，其中真正活跃交易的投资者仅有数十万。
Around 5% of Nigerians, equivalent to around 12 million people, participate in capital markets, but only hundreds of thousands trade actively, Popoola said.
他提到，通过WhatsApp、销售点终端设备甚至普通手机来推广Dangote公司的IPO，可以帮助尼日利亚证券交易所在投资者拓展方面“实现跨越式发展”。
Marketing the Dangote offer through WhatsApp, point-of-sale machines and even basic phones could allow the exchange to "leapfrog" years of investor outreach, Popoola said.
“我们希望这次IPO能让该国的活跃投资者数量增加三到五倍，”Popoola说，但他拒绝具体给出具体数字。
"What we expect this offer to do is ... make that three to five times the number of active investors that we have in the country," he said, declining to give a figure.
他还表示，这次IPO有望测试投资者对非洲其他市场的投资需求，并帮助尼日利亚成为整个非洲地区企业融资的重要资本来源。
Popoola said the offer could test investor demand beyond Nigeria and help position it as a deeper pool of capital for companies across Africa.
越来越多的尼日利亚公司正在考虑在伦敦、纽约和中东等市场上市，这进一步推动了相关基础设施的建设（以便股票能够在不同市场之间自由交易）。
Popoola said more Nigerian companies were considering listings in markets including London, New York and the Middle East, increasing the need for infrastructure allowing shares to trade across markets.
Seplat、Airtel Africa和Guaranty Trust Holding Company已经在伦敦证券交易所进行了二次上市；Dangote Cement也计划在11月完成上市。
Seplat, Airtel Africa and Guaranty Trust Holding Company already have secondary London listings and Dangote Cement plans one as soon as November.
“这些股票具有互换性，资金可以自由流动……如果我们能在更多市场实现这样的机制，那将符合所有投资者的利益，”Popoola说道。
"Those shares are fungible. Capital is able to flow quite freely ... if we can emulate that across many other markets, it's in the interest of our customers," he said.
波普拉表示，私人资本让吸引上市变得更加困难，因为大型公司可以通过其他方式筹集资金。
Popoola said private capital was making it harder to attract listings, as larger companies can raise money in other ways.
他补充说，该交易所预计未来一年将有不到10家尼日利亚公司上市。
The exchange expects fewer than 10 Nigerian companies to list over the next year, he added.
波普拉欢迎摩根大通决定将尼日利亚的本币主权债券纳入其新的前沿市场本币指数，并表示债务投资者的回归可以为股权投资者铺平道路。
Popoola welcomed JPMorgan's decision to add Nigeria's domestic sovereign bonds to its new frontier-market local currency index, saying the return of debt investors can pave the way for equity investors.
“我们现在看到的正是这种情况，所以这是一个非常好的先兆，”他说。
"That's exactly what we are seeing now, so this is a very good precursor," he said.