Encomium
Dr Nicky Okoye, Founder and President of the Global Investment Advisory Community, a growing community of local and global investment banks, asset management firms, Fintech, Money Deposit Banks, etc., has recently successfully organized and hosted a World-Class digital asset markets international retreat and roadshow in Zug (Europe’s Crypto), Zurich and Geneva Switzerland. The digital asset markets international retreat and roadshow, which was hosted on the last week of September 2025, was sponsored and supported by Nigeria’s capital market apex regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Nigerian delegation of executives was led to Switzerland, by the Chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Capital Markets, Distinguished Senator Osita Izunaso.
Other sponsors and corporate supporters included Meristem Group, Oando Plc, Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), CardinalStone Partners, Futureview, and so on.
The Digital Asset Markets International Retreat and Roadshow, was hosted in three cities across Switzerland, and it lasted about a week, the cities touched included Geneva, Zurich and Zug, Europe’s Crypto Valley.
The strategic sessions and engagements included sessions on deploying world-class blockchain technology for Nigeria, this session was anchored by banking grade blockchain technology companies. Other strategic sessions included engagement with Crypto native institutional investors, that are currently building global digital asset allocation portfolios for individual as well as institutional investors across the World.
The investor clients of these Crypto native institutions includes the family offices of some of the World’s wealthiest families working closely with Swiss Private Banks. The Chief Economist of the powerful Swiss Banking Association, Martin Hess PhD., anchored a strategic session on integrating future Tokenised Nigerian assets with the Swiss Banking and investment community. Whereas Axel Lehmann, past Chairman of Credit Suisse, provided a guide for Africa’s real-world assets to gain the interest of Swiss based institutional investors.
Special sessions on the tokenisation of real-world assets were held at EU Business School Geneva, and these were anchored by a long list of industry executives which included but were not limited to, Dr Pan Theo Grosse-Ruyken, founder of the PTGR AG, a Digital Asset Institution, Allison Fromm, CFO of Foundation for New Creative Economies, Rui Pedro Duarte, Managing Director of Loop Future (B2B Swiss Tech) and Prof Stef De Jong, the Dean of EU Business School.
Some very exciting agreements that would lead to the tokenisation of real-world Nigerian assets for the global community were signed between selected global digital asset platforms and the Global Investment Advisory community on behalf of its elite institutional members.
Dr Nicky Okoye, Global Investment Advisor, Founder and President of the Global Investment Advisory (GIA) Community, had this to say…
“We are very excited about our expanding global partnerships with Zug, Europe’s Crypto Valley, based digital asset markets institutions, including our technical partner Noumena Digital, and our world renowned digital asset broker, BITCOIN Suisse.
The success of this retreat and roadshow is a testament to that fact that global collaborations are strong and very effective, especially as new financial and capital market ecosystems are being designed and developed for the benefit of all mankind.
As we in Africa continue to work hard to build out a World-Class crypto and tokenisation ecosystem for our people, we are confident that our strategic engagements and the outstanding strategic partnerships developed during our strategic sessions in Europe’s Crypto Valley, Zug, will grow into monumental wealth and value for all Nigerians and Africans alike.
The Nigerian Delegation on the Digital Asset Markets International Retreat and roadshow was led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Senate Standing Committee on Capital Markets, Distinguished Senator Osita Izunaso, other delegates included the Group Chief Executive of Meristem Group, Suliaman Adedokun, Group Chief Executive of Futureview Mrs Elizabeth Ebi, and a host of executive delegates representing Oando Plc, CardinalStone Partners, Meristem Securities, Nigerian Senate Committee on Capital Markets and so on.
