ETHIOPIA has entered the final stage of its first stock exchange launch, as the country’s Capital Market Authority begins to on-board foreign investment banks from the second week of February. The regulator announced that it will start issuing investment bank licenses from February 12th 2024- the first time in the country’s history and after six ‘rigorous’ months of developing guidelines to govern the financial sector players. Ethiopia Capital Market Authority (ECMA) Director-General Brook Taye told reporters during a press briefing at the authority's headquarters in Addis Ababa on February 7 that several private companies, including banks, had expressed interest in…