Welcome to the June edition of Focus.
To begin this issue, Alexandra Szakats, Vice President, Head of The Options Institute at Cboe, reflects on the organisation's decades-long efforts to provide world-class educational programming to market participants of all backgrounds.
We have an Op Ed by Magnus Haglind, Head of Marketplace Technology at Nasdaq. In his article, Magnus argues that market operators must shift from maintenance to innovation, embrace service-led models and modernise at scale.
Gavin Serkin, Founder & Managing Editor of Frontier Intelligence, talks about Morocco's derivatives expansion with the 2030 FIFA World Cup on the horizon.
Frank Berle, Deputy Managing Director at the Ghana Stock Exchange, discusses the launch of a regulated commercial paper market in Ghana and its implications.
To round out this issue, James Black, VP, Listings Development at CSE, and I discuss the role of stock exchanges in advancing global sustainability in a recent episode of the Canadian Securities Exchange's podcast,
See you for more in July when we will bring you selected highlights from the upcoming WFE Sustainability Conference in Singapore.
Nandini Sukumar
Chief Executive Officer
The WFE