Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of Focus of 2025.

In this month’s issue, a selection of our members reflect on their organisations' achievements in 2024 and look ahead to the opportunities and challenges that the coming year may present.

Boon Chye Loh, the WFE Chairman and SGX CEO, highlights the key themes and trends for exchange and market infrastructure in 2025.

Ed Knight, Executive Vice Chairman at Nasdaq, discusses how the exchange navigated the past year and how it plans to drive growth in a rapidly evolving global economy.

Asadej Kongsiri, President of the Stock Exchange...

Welcome to the December edition of Focus.

In our final issue this year we reflect on a wide range of themes and issues affecting global exchanges in the wake of the 63rd WFE General Assembly and Annual Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, that took place in November.

Our cover story is the Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's keynote address, in which he talked about Malaysia's vibrant economy, sustainability, the need for international cooperation and ASEAN's new memorandum of understanding.

We feature a piece by ASEAN exchanges that looks at the MOU and regional ...

Welcome to the November issue of Focus, a special edition dedicated to our Ring the Bell for Climate campaign, where exchanges come together to highlight the importance of sustainability issues in the finance industry and demonstrate the role they can - and are - playing to address them, in the run up to COP 29 in Azerbaijan. This issue features articles highlighting how exchanges and companies are working to mitigate climate risks and achieve Net Zero targets.

We begin with Abdul Wahid Omar and Muhamad Umar Swift, Chair and CEO of Bursa Malaysia, who welcome the industry to the WFE’s 63rd Gen...

Welcome to the October issue of Focus, where the spotlight turns to financial literacy as World Investor Week approaches.

Many of our 18 articles this month explore education programs for children, students and seasoned investors. Exchanges showcase innovative ideas and games, experimental training programmes and the use of competitions, mobile phones and social media, as well as traditional teaching methods, as they seek to boost financial literacy, inclusivity and economic growth.

We lead on three pieces, by Nasdaq, the Singapore and Saudi exchanges. Nasdaq has an Eastern European theme as i...

Welcome to the September 2024 issue of WFE Focus. 

In this edition, Jorge Alegria, CEO of Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, outlines his vision for the exchange along with the opportunities and challenges it faces.

Catherine Clay, Global Head of Derivatives at Cboe Global Markets, highlights the evolving landscape of volatility trading and Cboe's commitment to expanding access and innovation in the global options market.

Botswana Stock Exchange Acting CEO Kopano Bolokwe discusses its new Sustainability Disclosure Guidance.

Tony Sio, Head of Regulatory Strategy and Innovation at Nasdaq, looks at how t...

Welcome to the August 2024 issue of Focus. 

In this edition, Laura Klimpel from DTCC provides a pulse check on the Treasury Clearing Mandate ahead of its introduction over the next two years.

Martina Macpherson from SIX discusses the challenges of meeting the EU’s sustainability disclosure rules and their implications for the investment value chain.

Ian Waddell of ASX moderates a panel with Luke Donovan of Apostle Carbon Credit Funds, Kellee Campbell of ICAP, and Daniel Sinclair of ASX,  on the clean energy transition, the role of futures markets and decarbonisation efforts in Australia and Ne...

Welcome to the July edition of Focus. We lead with Keith Wood and Suraj Pandey, CEO of pTools Software, and Business Development Manager of pTools Software and LEILex, who announce the delivery of its pTools Persistent Sanctions Screening Solution, which provides an automated solution for 'persistent' sanctions screening to help organisations mitigate financial risks and maintain global security.

It was a real pleasure to convene our members and stakeholders at our sustainability event, hosted and chaired by TMX Group last month in Toronto, Canada. The purpose of the event was to help equip ou...

Welcome to the June edition of Focus.

To begin the issue, Christopher Buttigieg, chief officer supervision, and Nathan Fenech, deputy head capital markets, at Malta Financial Services Authority, examine the use of consolidated tape in the EU and U.S.

Monique Bell, Commodities Product Manager at ASX, looks at the role financial derivatives could play in helping with decarbonisation plans.

Daria Degtyarenko, senior marketing communications manager of Exactpro, explains how AI-driven testing can lead to higher-quality innovation.

Fredrik Ekström, head of carbon markets at Nasdaq, shares ...

Welcome to the May 2024 issue of WFE Focus. 

In this edition, Cesar Sanchez, Head of Sustainability at B3, discusses the launch of the Brazilian Stock Exchange’s B3 Ações Verdes green offering for equity issuers that aligns with the WFE’s Green Equity Principles.

Elizabeth Coleman, HR Director (Atlantic Region) at SIX, talks about the challenges facing global recruiters in a changing world and how the traditional employer-employee relationship has developed.

Pedro Gurrola-Perez, the WFE's Head of Research, presents a novel measure of initial margin model reactiveness that does not rely on part...