Welcome to the February edition of Focus.
This month, Terry Duffy, Chairman and CEO of CME Group, reflects on CME's record growth in 2024 and outlines the company's goals for 2025. In our second feature, Loui Anastasopoulos, CEO of the Toronto Stock Exchange and Global Head of Capital Formation at TMX Group, discusses the launch of the new Canada Climate Week Xchange initiative.
In addition, we hear from four participants of The World Federation of Exchanges Market Infrastructure Certificate (MIC) programme. Jeff Kimsey, Vice President at Nasdaq, is our Editor's Pick and he is joined by Chihun Kang, Lead Manager at Korea Exchange; Haya Al-Merekhi, Surveillance Manager, Operations Department, Qatar Stock Exchange and Oluwaseun Owoeye, Senior Vice President, Product and Payment Network Strategy at Citi Bank UK, who share their learnings and personal highlights. Applications for the 2025 MIC cohort are open, and we advise prospective candidates to move fast as they will close as soon as all places are filled. See here for information and to apply.
As we move through the early weeks of 2025, Ittai Ben-Zeev, CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, offers his thoughts on TASE's development and his outlook for 2025. Mazen Wathaifi, CEO of the Amman Stock Exchange, outlines the ASE's achievements in 2024 and what's on his radar this year. Rounding out this theme, Dr Matthias Voelkel, CEO of Boerse Stuttgart Group, gives his outlook for the coming months.
Finally, Keith Wood, CEO of pTools Software, and Suraj Pandey, Business Development Manager of pTools Software and LEILex, explain how the company has integrated AI into its solutions.
See you next month. Our March issue will be a special edition celebrating women leaders.
Nandini Sukumar
Chief Executive Officer
The WFE