The major areas of interest to the visiting delegation are as follows:
• Formulation of Issuance Strategies for Securities.
• Policies for Benchmark Building.
• Primary Dealer Market Maker Programme.
• Communication Strategies with market stakeholders.
• Price formation and dissemination in the Primary and Secondary markets.
• Types of secondary market architecture, price discovery and transparency.
The DMO has in the past hosted officials of various African countries on similar study tours and indeed provided attachments for some of the countries. The countries include Uganda, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is pertinent to emphasise that the hosting of officials of different countries on such study tours and provision of attachment programmes are an integral part of the DMO’s strategic objective of making Nigeria a major destination for out-sourced debt management skills and services. In order for the visiting officials to achieve maximum benefit from the study Tour, the DMO has packaged series of presentations on different areas of public debt management including the following:
• Building blocks for effective debt management – stakeholder relationship management, development of legislations, institutional arrangements/internal organisation.
• Development of strategies for optimally meeting Government financing needs.
• Auction methods of Government debt securities.
• The Primary Dealer Market Maker (PDMM) System which is the major plank for the vibrant Secondary FGN Bond Market.
• Portfolio management strategies including the annual Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) which forms an integral part of the country’s annual budgeting process, the Medium Term Debt Strategy (MTDS) which serves as a compass for public debt management. It is imperative to note that the DSA for the year 2015 has just been concluded and the report is expected to be ready soon.
Part of the team’s itinerary while in the country, will involve meetings in Lagos, with key stakeholders in the Nigerian Domestic Bond Market including the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Financial Market Dealers Quotation OTC Plc (FMDQ OTC Plc), the Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA) and some senior Treasurers of Banks.