Welcome to the WFE Women Leaders 2025 edition of Focus. This year marks the fifth anniversary of this important initiative, and we are proud to celebrate the talented women who are shaping the future of our industry.

This year, we received many nominations from inspirational women who are redefining leadership across emerging and developed markets. All the nominees are exceptional and talented leaders — motivational, insightful, diligent, adaptable, compassionate and driven by determination, resilience and grit.

To the 20 women who made this year’s list — congratulations. The Selection Committ...

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...

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...