Welcome to the April issue of WFE Focus.

In this month’s edition, we bring you some of the highlights from our CCP & Derivatives Conference, WFE Clear, which was hosted by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and its clearinghouse, JSE Clear, at the end of March.

The conference was a remarkable success, with academics, policy makers and industry participants engaging in deep and insightful conversations around a wide range of topics in clearing, ranging from the impact of technological innovation to the role of clearing within the real economy.

I was particularly impressed by the exceptional qualit...

This year, the third year of the WFE initiative, we had more than 50 great nominations, shattering a glass ceiling of its own kind as our industry put forward leaders from market infrastructures both big and small, emerging and developed, from Asia-Pac, EMEA and the Americas.

All the nominees are tremendous leaders: inspirational, intelligent, and hardworking with perseverance and grit. They reflect lives of substance.

To those who made the list this year, well done. The choices were the toughest ones yet, and those who didn’t make the final cut – don’t be deterred. Come forward again...

Welcome to February. Our first issue of 2023 provides a range of pieces from around the globe, from Kazakhstan to Japan to the U.S.

Alina Aldambergen, Chairman of the Management Board, Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, looks ahead to what 2023 might bring as the exchange celebrates its 30^th anniversary.

In the U.S., Phil Mackintosh, Chief Economist, Nasdaq, provides an update on how the use of Consolidated Tape protects investors and rewards market quality.

Also, Natsuho Torii, Deputy Secretary General, Sustainability Committee, Japan Exchange Group, presents the findings of its TCFD Disclosure surve...

Welcome to the November issue of WFE Focus.  

 This month’s edition focuses on three themes raised by the keynote speakers at the WFE’s Annual Meeting in Malta at the end of September.  

 IOSCO Deputy Secretary General Tajinder Singh took a deep dive into how to regulate the crypto-asset sector, IESBA Chairwoman Gabriela Figueiredo Dias addressed sustainability from the perspective of a standard setter for professional accountants and CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger considers the changing landscape that exchanges and clearinghouses navigate as they work together to serve the real economy...

Our October issue is devoted to investor protection, financial literacy and financial inclusion: things WFE members believe in very strongly. It’s a subject that has greater resonance as we see increased participation of retail investors in financial markets.

This month, we hear from 16 members, starting with Marek Dietl, President of the Management Board, Warsaw Stock Exchange, who provides an overview of the many programs that the exchange has for educating the country’s population about the investment world.

In Asia, Sherman Lin, Chairman, TWSE, is focused on using financial litera...

This is our General Assembly & Annual Meeting special edition, our first in person since 2019. We are heading to Malta, hosted by the Malta Stock Exchange.

Ahead of hosting the meeting, Malta Stock Exchange Executive Chairman Joseph Portelli discusses his plans to launch two new business units and ensure long-term sustainable growth.

And looking ahead, the Bermuda Stock Exchange details its work on ESG initiatives and how it will engage with other members to further the goals of the WFE.

Turning to technology, Vermiculus’s Hannes Edvardson discusses how the world’s stock exchanges can improve ...

Welcome to our August issue.

In our summer edition, we reflect on the first half and look ahead to the trends shaping the next 18 months.

We start with Ed Tilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cboe Global Markets as well as the WFE’s Chairman. He shares his views on the exchange industry’s vital role in the current global market environment, and why he believes exchanges around the world can continue to lead the charge to define evolving areas like ESG and digital assets.

In Asia-Pacific, Japan Exchange Group CEO Akira Kiyota tells us about three key areas the company is focusing on a...

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...

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...