ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study among other things involves determining if central securities clearing system improved the level of liquidity of the Nigerian capital market. Most especially to investigate the impact of CSCS in the Nigerian capital market using the OLSM as model specification the researcher using secondary data for the study while T — test was used to test the three hypothesis. The first hypothesis investigates the claim that there is no significant relationship between CSCS improving the level of liquidity in the Nigerian capital market. The second hypothesis stated that there is no significant relationship between the volume of stock cleared settled and the listed securities in the Nigerian Stock exchange. Considering the third hypothesis which dealt on the number of quoted companies does not have significant relationship with the impact of CSCS. Therefore the operation of CSCS which is aimed at the under listed are assumed successful going by the result of the findings. It shows (a) there is a great confidence in the capital market operation by investors through the embracement of CSCS. (b) It also shows that there is greater liquidity and vibrancy in the Nigerian capital market as a result of market capitalization and market worth has been increased.