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The Nairobi Securities Exchange launches Innovation Lab
13 November 2025 Kenya
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The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) has launched its NSE Innovation Lab, intended to develop transformative solutions to deepen and expand Africa’s capital markets, and serve as the exchange’s engine for applied innovation.
The lab will also explore tokenisation, digital assets, and smarter market infrastructure, with the aim of bringing real-world blockchain applications into a regulated, institutional environment.
Furthermore, the Lab aims to accelerate innovation in sustainable finance, digital assets, tokenised instruments, and intelligent market data systems, in addition to pioneering new models for regional market connectivity, investor inclusion, and product development.
Additionally, as part of the launch, the Hedera Foundation and Hashgraph have become technology partners, joining the Innovation Lab, which the NSE says is indicative of the exchange’s mission to build a digitally enabled, globally connected marketplace.
Frank Mwiti, chief executive of the NSE, says the Innovation Lab is a “catalyst for capital markets transformation,” and that the culmination of “innovators, market participants, and global technology pioneers, such as the Hedera Foundation and Hashgraph, we are creating a platform for experimentation, learning, and invention that will power the next generation of Africa’s capital markets”.
Chief business officer for Hbar, Gregg Bell, is “deeply proud to collaborate with the Nairobi Securities Exchange to help them in their mission to accelerate the digital transformation of Africa’s capital markets via the Hedera network”.
Commenting on the collaboration, Eric Piscini, CEO of Hashgraph, says: “Partnering with the Nairobi Securities Exchange and Hedera Foundation is an important step toward building more open and trusted financial systems.”
“By working together, we can use our expertise and assets in tokenisation to grow and expand markets in Africa.”
The lab will also explore tokenisation, digital assets, and smarter market infrastructure, with the aim of bringing real-world blockchain applications into a regulated, institutional environment.
Furthermore, the Lab aims to accelerate innovation in sustainable finance, digital assets, tokenised instruments, and intelligent market data systems, in addition to pioneering new models for regional market connectivity, investor inclusion, and product development.
Additionally, as part of the launch, the Hedera Foundation and Hashgraph have become technology partners, joining the Innovation Lab, which the NSE says is indicative of the exchange’s mission to build a digitally enabled, globally connected marketplace.
Frank Mwiti, chief executive of the NSE, says the Innovation Lab is a “catalyst for capital markets transformation,” and that the culmination of “innovators, market participants, and global technology pioneers, such as the Hedera Foundation and Hashgraph, we are creating a platform for experimentation, learning, and invention that will power the next generation of Africa’s capital markets”.
Chief business officer for Hbar, Gregg Bell, is “deeply proud to collaborate with the Nairobi Securities Exchange to help them in their mission to accelerate the digital transformation of Africa’s capital markets via the Hedera network”.
Commenting on the collaboration, Eric Piscini, CEO of Hashgraph, says: “Partnering with the Nairobi Securities Exchange and Hedera Foundation is an important step toward building more open and trusted financial systems.”
“By working together, we can use our expertise and assets in tokenisation to grow and expand markets in Africa.”
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