{"id":674,"date":"2023-09-20T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najah.shupav.co.ke\/?page_id=674"},"modified":"2023-09-22T17:03:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T17:03:45","slug":"james-wangunyu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/about\/james-wangunyu\/","title":{"rendered":"James Wangunyu"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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James founded Standard Stocks, as a licensed Stockbroker in 1995. As a veteran businessman with a background in commercial banking, his focus on business growth and development was very clear. He sought to differentiate the firm by having a customer-centric view. As such, with a focus on high-value customer relationship management and integrity, the company rapidly flourished and increased its volume of equity trading business by a significant multiplier to achieve No. 1 position in trade volume ranks well ahead of more established and older stockbroking firms.<\/div>
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In 2005, James steered the business into transaction advisory services and secured an investment banking license, thus Standard Investment Bank. In 2007, he led the company to attain an additional license for the SIB Trust Funds, and most recently in 2018, guided the firm to attain the first Online Forex Trading Money Manager License.<\/p>

James has a passion to innovate, be an industry pioneer and trend setter. James has over 24 years of investment banking experience and has been involved in leading diverse business avenues. His business acumen, knowledge in the Capital Markets and experience has provided guidance and leadership in the capital markets industry both as a member and as a regulator.<\/p>

James has previously served as Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Nairobi Securities Exchange and has served in many Committees at the NSE. He has knowledge and experience in the insurance and commercial banking sectors. He is a former Chairman of Pacis Insurance Co in Kenya. He continues to serve as a Director and shareholder in various other businesses.<\/p>

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James Wangunyu Founder & Managing Director James founded Standard Stocks, as a licensed Stockbroker in 1995. As a veteran businessman with a background in commercial banking, his focus on business growth and development was very clear. He sought to differentiate the firm by having a customer-centric view. As such, with a focus on high-value customer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":70,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"fullwidth","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"unboxed","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"hide","_kad_post_feature":"hide","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-674","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/674\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sib.co.ke\/najah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}