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Nandini Sukumar
CEO Letter

CEO Letter - June 2022

Published: Jun 2022

Welcome to June. I write from the WFE’s CCP & Derivatives conference which caps a week of member meetings – the first time we have met as a community since January 2020. We are delighted to resume in-person meetings and welcome our members from all over the world again.

Focus this month explores some of the themes raised in these conversations.

Jos Dijsselhof, CEO of SIX Group AG and Chair of the WFE’s Working Committee, the engine of WFE’s policy and education work, shares his views on the role exchanges can play in ESG, raising capital, DeFI and building an infrastructure f...



Nadini Sukumar
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CEO Letter - May 2022

Published: May 2022

Welcome to the May issue of WFE Focus.

In this month’s edition, we look ahead to our CCP & Derivatives Conference at the end of May – our first meeting in person since the pandemic began.

To get us started, both at the conference and in Focus, we have contributions from four of our erudite and knowledgeable speakers.

SIX Head of Clearing & Repo Operations José Manuel Ortiz looks at the implications of extending central clearing to new asset classes amid an industry debate on the path forward.

Dr David Murphy, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, writes of the ways a better mar...

Nadini Sukumar
CEO Letter

CEO Letter - April 2022

Published: Apr 2022

Welcome to the April issue of WFE Focus.

In this month’s edition we feature four stories that highlight how broad, and how innovative, our industry is as we span capital raising, market microstructure, ESG and DLT.

Exchanges and CCPs sit at the centre of capital markets, uniquely positioned at the junction of the financial system, the political system and the real economy.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Head of Sales and Markets Development Lior Navon tells us how TASE took on the challenge of bringing together its leading listed companies and UAE business leaders to begin building a financial br...

Nandini Sukumar
CEO Letter

CEO Letter - February 2022

Published: Feb 2022

Welcome to the February’s Focus – an edition where we think a lot about IPOs, listings, leadership and the role of our industry in the years to come as the pandemic continues to make us all reflective.

To get us started, Saudi Tadawul Group’s CEO Khalid al Hussan, who recently led the organization through a successful IPO, explains the thinking, the action and how & why this has laid the foundations for an exciting future as the exchange walks the path it more normally supports companies through.

Across the globe, in Canada, the head of another big exchange, TMX CEO John McKenzie, talks about ...

Nandini Sukumar
CEO Letter

CEO Letter - January 2022

Published: Jan 2022

Welcome to 2022 and our first edition of the year. In January we feature insights from exchange leaders around the world.

The leaders of exchanges in Australia, the Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Taiwan and the US talk to us about what lies ahead as the pandemic enters the next phase and our industry, at the heart of capital markets, looks to the future.

Read on for conversations on consolidation, ESG, digitalisation and the future of work with ICE’s Jeff Sprecher, ASX’s Dominic Stevens, BVRM’s Edoh Kossi Amenounve, KASE’s Alina Aldambergen, SIX’s Jos Dijsselhof and Taiwan Stock Exchang...

Nandini Sukumar
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CEO Letter – December 2021

Published: Dec 2021

Welcome to the December issue of WFE Focus – what a year it’s been.

For the final issue of 2021, we feature insights from exchange leaders around the world, as they reflect on the unique and challenging patterns of another disrupted year. Despite the many difficulties, the crisis has spurred a wave of market and technological innovation, as well as a new spirit of workplace flexibility. Market infrastructures remain on a strong growth path as we move into 2022. The optimism and resilience that permeates our industry is rooted in the vision and the energy that these leaders embody.

We start in ...

Nandini Sukumar
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CEO Letter – November 2021

Published: Nov 2021

As the world gathers in Glasgow for COP 26, our November issue looks at broader ESG initiatives at market infrastructures around the world. WFE members continue to work tirelessly to promote finance as a force for good and to seek markets-based solutions to many of the issues we are grappling with as a society.

This month, we hear how in Russia, the Moscow Exchange’s online education platform has helped thousands of new retail investors gain the confidence to begin their trading journeys. Maria Kharlashkina, Deputy Head of Strategy, MOEX, tells us more.

In Brazil, a new breed of investor requi...

Nandini Sukumar
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CEO Letter – October 2021

Published: Oct 2021

Our October issue is devoted to investor protection, financial literacy, and financial inclusion: things WFE members do as naturally as breathing. It’s a subject that has even greater resonance as we consider the increased participation of retail investors in financial markets.

This month we hear from 14 of our members, starting with Edith Lee, CEO and Executive Director of the Taipei Exchange. Helping today’s investors gain experience and confidence is an essential part of building a modern society, she writes.

Ittai Ben-Zeev, Chief Executive Officer of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, agrees, as he 

Nandini Sukumar
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CEO Letter – September 2021

Published: Sep 2021

This month’s edition, September, marks the end of an important chapter for the WFE.

We say farewell to our widely respected, and much loved, Chairman of the past three years, Dr Urs Rüegsegger. He has been in a leadership position at the Board, first as Working Committee Chairman (2014-2016), Acting Chairman (2017), and finally as Chairman (2018-2021) for all the time I have been Chief Executive Officer.

He has been a leader, a mentor, a guide and a champion of the WFE in these years and before and his vision and energy have been influential in shaping the organisation we are today.

In his art...