Thursday April 3 2025
News Source: Global Exchanges
Focus: General - Global Exchanges
Type: General
Country: Saudi Arabia
The Capital Market Authority (CMA) proposed amendments to the categories of investors permitted to invest in the Parallel Market.
The proposed draft aims to develop the investor categories in the Parallel Market – Nomu by easing the criteria and requirements that investors must meet to be eligible to trade and invest in the market, which is expected to have a positive impact on the market.
The key proposed amendments include revising the term “Qualified Investor in the Parallel Market” to refer exclusively to the categories eligible to invest in the market. The amendments also ease the criteria imposed on individual investors wishing to enter and invest in the Parallel Market – Nomu. Under the proposed criteria, an investor would be required to have completed transactions amounting to SAR 30 million during the past 12 months, with the removal of the requirement to execute at least ten transactions per quarter. Previously, the condition required completing transactions worth SAR 40 million through at least ten transactions during the past 12 months. This means eliminating the quarterly transaction count requirement and reducing the minimum transaction value by SAR 10 million.
In addition, the proposed amendments include classifying the board members and members of the committees emanating from the board of directors in companies listed in the Parallel Market as qualified investors allowed to invest in the Parallel Market.
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