Editor's Pick
Understanding Margin Model Performance: A Factor-Based Approach to CCP Backtesting
Rama Kumanduri, Managing Director, and Shahrzad Karimi, Director, at The OCC explain how a new factor-based, forward-looking approach to CCP backtesting helps identify the true drivers of margin model failures.
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Understanding Margin Model Performance: A Factor-Based Approach to CCP Backtesting
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Education
Bursa Malaysia Develops Web-Based Game to Teach Children Stock Investment Concepts
Published: Oct 2023
If we are to ask a room of Malaysian youths “What is a stock market?”, many would be hard pressed to provide an answer, let alone a correct one. There is an air of complexity to the stock market that causes the youth to shy away from investing and trading in stocks.
Education
How the Options Institute Is Catalysing Financial Literacy Worldwide
Published: Oct 2023
Gina DeRaimo, Head of the Options Institute at Cboe Global Markets, talks about its mission to educate people and make financial markets more accessible.
Education
Ghana's Youth Investment Educational Campaign
Published: Oct 2023
Abena Amoah, Managing Director of the Ghana Stock Exchange, presents a range of financial education programmes for school children and students.
Education
Unlocking Prosperity: NGX Group’s Efforts in Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap
Published: Oct 2023
The financial literacy project of NGX Group and its subsidiaries, NGX, NGX RegCo and NGX RelCo, is a shining example of a corporate initiative that extends its commitment beyond business interests to empower and uplift the Nigerian economy.
Education
Borsa Istanbul Empowers New Generation Through BISTLABs
Published: Oct 2023
Banu Budayoğlu Yılmaz, Strategic Planning Manager at Borsa Istanbul, discusses educating the younger generation of investors as Türkiye celebrates a major anniversary.
Education
World Investor Week Forum in Taiwan to Focus on Resilience, Digital Trends, and Sustainability
Published: Oct 2023
The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) has always been committed to investor education, conducting activities every year to promote financial literacy through multiple channels and mechanisms, including campuses, communities, media, and industry cooperation.
Education
IOSCO's Plans to Promote Investor Education
Published: Oct 2023
Pasquale Munafo, Chair of IOSCO C8, presents the regulator's plans to support investor protection through education.
Features
REITs value traded
Published: Oct 2023
Mihaela Croitoru, Database Manager at the WFE, writes about REITs value traded on the world's stock exchanges.
CEO Letter
CEO Letter September-2023
Published: Sep 2023
Welcome to the September issue of WFE Focus.
In this month’s edition, Greg Wojciechowski, the Bermuda Stock Exchange’s CEO, welcomes the industry to the WFE’s 62nd General Assembly & Annual Meeting. The meeting, which has brought the industry together globally for over 60 years, will be held in Bermuda for the first time from Sept. 19 - 21.
We also have a number of contributions that focus on technology and how it may affect exchanges in the future.
Guy Melamed, Exberry’s CEO, offers his take on the next stage of cloud-based trading technology; Daria Degtyarenko, Exactpro’s senior communicatio...