The National Bank of Ethiopia has launched a full-fledged Central Securities Depository (CSD) system and unveiled Ts’ega, the country’s first National Investor Portal, effective 22 November 2025. The rollout digitises core post-trade market infrastructure and provides investors with secure, real-time access to securities information held in the national depository, while keeping existing operational processes for banks, settlement institutions and intermediaries unchanged. The CSD is positioned as the backbone for safekeeping securities and managing the post-trade lifecycle, including transfers of ownership, clearing, settlement and portfolio reporting, and is also intended to support monetary policy instruments and the primary securities market. In addition to public market functions, the system offers services for private securities, including dematerialisation of physical certificates, centralised custody, post-trade orchestration, and corporate actions processing such as dividends, bonus issues and stock splits. Ts’ega is intended to be the first Ethiopian application allowing individual and institutional investors to view holdings directly from the national depository rather than relying on manual updates from intermediaries. To encourage early engagement and collect feedback, the National Bank of Ethiopia will select the first fifty individuals who want to install and test the Ts’ega Investor Portal mobile application once it becomes available.

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