Nigeria moves to T+1 settlement
| Jurisdiction | Nigeria (Africa) |
| Authority | Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria |
| Instrument | market infrastructure |
| Status | in force |
| Event date | 19 May 2026 |
| Coverage date | 30 May 2026 |
| Sources | SEC Nigeria circulars feed |
| Reference | cpm-2026-0022 |
Effective 19 May 2026, Nigerian equities and commodities settle T+1. It is a market-plumbing change rather than a crypto rule, but it belongs on this monitor for what it signals: the same regulator writing VASP-adjacent rules is compressing settlement toward the T+0 world that tokenized markets assume. Brokers, custodians and clearing members had days rather than months to re-tool reconciliation, a preview of the operational tempo African market infrastructure reform is now running at.
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