Nigeria’s capital markets are growing. The transaction volumes are up. The investor base is broadening. And the infrastructure holding everything together is increasingly out of its depth.
Settlement delays that should take minutes still take days. Reconciliation processes that could run automatically still consume entire compliance teams. Audit trails that blockchain could make tamper-proof still rely on spreadsheets and manual sign-offs. The gap between what Nigeria’s capital markets need to compete globally and what the current technology stack delivers grows wider every quarter.
On Tuesday, 2nd June 2026, MasteryHive AI, the Fund Managers Association of Nigeria (FMAN), and CBC Blockchain Services bring together capital market leaders at Bluerock Residences, Victoria Island, Lagos for a one-day executive workshop: “Strategic AI & Blockchain Leadership in Nigerian Capital Markets.”
This is the room where Nigeria’s capital market transformation gets its strategic direction.
Why This Workshop Exists
The technology reshaping global capital markets is no longer experimental. AI-driven settlement systems, blockchain-based reconciliation infrastructure, and real-time compliance monitoring are operational at scale in markets across Europe, Asia, and North America. The institutions that built those capabilities did not wait for a perfect regulatory environment or a consensus among peers. Their leadership made a strategic decision, acquired the knowledge, and moved.
Nigeria’s capital market leaders now face the same inflection point.
The workshop addresses this directly. Rather than an overview of what AI and blockchain could do in theory, this session delivers the practical frameworks leaders need to evaluate, pilot, and implement these technologies within Nigeria’s regulatory and operational context. The facilitators practitioners with experience at Google, DeepMind, Amazon, and leading global blockchain ecosystems have built production-grade systems at scale. Their insights are grounded in what actually works, not what looks good in a presentation.
What the Workshop Covers
The agenda focuses on four areas where AI and blockchain deliver measurable, near-term impact in capital markets:
Settlement and Reconciliation
Manual reconciliation is one of the most expensive operational burdens in Nigerian capital markets. AI can automate exception identification and resolution. Blockchain creates shared, immutable settlement records that eliminate the dispute cycles that slow post-trade processing. The workshop examines how leading institutions have collapsed multi-day settlement windows and what it takes to replicate that in the Nigerian context.
Transparency and Trust
Investor confidence in any market rests on the integrity of its records. Blockchain infrastructure makes every transaction traceable, every record auditable, and every modification logged permanently. For fund managers seeking to attract institutional and foreign investors, that transparency is no longer a differentiator. It is a baseline expectation. The session covers how to build and communicate that infrastructure.
Risk and Compliance
Regulatory obligations in capital markets are tightening globally, and Nigeria is no exception. AI-powered compliance monitoring can track obligations across multiple instruments and counterparties simultaneously, flag breaches before they become violations, and generate audit-ready reports automatically. The workshop examines how to deploy these capabilities in a way that satisfies Nigerian regulators and reduces compliance overhead rather than adding to it.
Operational Efficiency
Back-office automation, AI-assisted client reporting, and smart contract execution are already reducing operating costs at peer institutions in other markets. The session quantifies what those gains look like and maps the implementation pathway for Nigerian capital market participants.
Who This Workshop Is Built For
This is a high-level, one-day executive programme. It targets the people responsible for strategic and operational decisions in Nigeria’s investment sector:
- Asset managers and fund managers evaluating technology investment priorities
- Capital market regulators assessing the implications of AI and blockchain adoption
- Compliance and risk officers navigating evolving regulatory requirements
- C-suite executives and board-level decision-makers at securities firms, investment banks, and custodians
- Technology and operations leaders responsible for digital transformation roadmaps
If your decisions shape how a Nigerian capital market institution operates, invests, or competes, this session is built for you.
The Convening Partners
MasteryHive AI builds Transaction Reconciliation Intelligence for African financial institutions. Its work sits at the intersection of machine learning and financial infrastructure, with a specific focus on the operational challenges unique to African markets.
The Fund Managers Association of Nigeria (FMAN) is the professional body representing fund managers and investment advisers operating in Nigeria. Its membership spans the institutional investment ecosystem, and its convening authority brings together the leaders whose decisions shape the sector’s direction.
CBC Blockchain Services is a blockchain consultancy specialising in compliant blockchain solutions for regulated markets. Its focus on regulatory compliance makes it a particularly relevant partner for capital market applications, where the stakes of a non-compliant deployment are highest.
Together, these three organisations bring strategic depth, practitioner experience, and sector-wide convening power to a conversation Nigeria’s capital markets urgently need to have.
What Participants Leave With
Beyond the frameworks and case studies, workshop participants gain access to a peer network of capital market leaders who are working through the same strategic questions. In a sector where implementation success often depends on coordinated adoption across multiple institutions, those relationships matter as much as the content.
Participants also engage directly with the facilitators, global experts who bring experience none of Nigeria’s domestic institutions have built in-house yet. The opportunity to test ideas, pressure-test strategies, and get direct answers from practitioners who have deployed at scale is rare. This workshop makes it available for a day.
Register Now
Date: Tuesday, 2nd June 2026
Time: 10:00 AM
Venue: Bluerock Residences, 64 Kofo Abayomi Street, Victoria Island, Lagos
Register your interest: tinyurl.com/FMAN-MH
For enquiries:
- CBC Blockchain: obinna@cbcblockchain.com
- MasteryHive AI: dupe@masteryhive.ai
- FMAN: secretariat@fman.com.ng
Nigeria’s capital markets will not modernise on their own. The technology exists. The case is made. What this sector needs now is leaders who move first.
June 2nd is where that starts.
