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Idika Kalu Uma
Idika Kalu Uma is a professional banker and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (ACIB). He started his banking career with Centre-Point Merchant Bank Limi...view moreIdika Kalu Uma is a professional banker and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (ACIB). He started his banking career with Centre-Point Merchant Bank Limited in 1990 where he worked in the Domestic Operations Group as a Bank Officer in charge of Loan Administration. He moved on to the African Banking Consortium, ABC Merchant Bank (Nigeria) Limited, as an Assistant Manager in the Corporate Finance/Capital Markets Division of the bank, overseeing the investment banking and corporate finance business of the bank. While at the bank, he qualified as a Stockbroker and Dealing Clerk of The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in 1995. Leaving as Deputy Manager, he joined the First City Group as a Stockbroker serving with FCMB Capital Markets, City Securities Limited & CSL Stockbrokers Limited – all associates of First City Monument Bank Plc. (FCMB Plc.), where he later became the Regional Head, Eastern Operations, of the companies. From there, in 2007, he moved on to become the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Kofana Securities & Investments Limited, an investment banking/stockbroking firm. In 2013, he was appointed Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Zeitgeist Limited – a finance, projects and economic research firm – where he is currently involved in financial engineering, business restructuring and the financial markets.
Idika Kalu Uma is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (FCS) and a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria (FSM). He holds the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Banking. As an astute money market expert and a frontline capital market operator, he has advanced the frontiers of financial knowledge through several bestsellers in banking and stockbroking, among which are Getting That Bank Loan: Issues of Security & Their Perfection; Game Investors Play; The Financial System & Stock Market Activity; Secrets In Banking Practice; and Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Markets: Management & Development.view less
Books by Idika Kalu Uma
Bank Instruments & Accounts Management: Detecting & Preventing Fraud: With Case Law, Tutorial Notes, Questions & Answers