Features

Alexandra Szakats
Education

Celebrating 40 Years of Options Education

Published: Jun 2025
Alexandra Szakats, Vice President, Head of The Options Institute at Cboe, reflects on Cboe’s decades-long efforts to provide world-class educational programming to market participants of all backgrounds. Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, The Options Institute is Cboe’s education team, dedicated to advancing investors’ understanding of derivatives, financial markets and responsible, informed decision-making.
Frank Berle
Emerging Markets

Deepening Capital Markets in Frontier Economies: Ghana Stock Exchange Admits First Commercial Paper Issuance on It Fixed-Income Market

Published: Jun 2025
Frank Berle, Deputy Managing Director at the Ghana Stock Exchange, discusses the launch of a regulated commercial paper market in Ghana and its implications.
Gavin Serkin
Emerging Markets

Invisible Infrastructure Underpinning Morocco's World Cup Development Drive

Published: Jun 2025
Gavin Serkin, Founder & Managing Editor of Frontier Intelligence, talks about Morocco's derivatives expansion with the excitement of the football World Cup on the horizon.
Magnus Haglind
Features

How Market Operators Should Approach Innovation

Published: Jun 2025
In this Op Ed, Magnus Haglind, Head of Marketplace Technology at Nasdaq, argues that market operators must shift from maintenance to innovation, embrace service-led models and modernise at scale.
James Black
Features

The Role of Stock Exchanges in Advancing Global Sustainability

Published: Jun 2025
In this episode of the Canadian Securities Exchange's podcast, James Black, VP, Listings Development at CSE, and Nandini Sukumar, CEO of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), discuss the role of stock exchanges in advancing global sustainability.
Matt Johnson
Features

The Journey to T+1 for the UK, EU, Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Published: May 2025
Matt Johnson, Executive Director of Institutional Trade Processing Product Management and Industry Relations at DTCC, discusses how DTCC is supporting market participants as they prepare for the UK Accelerated Settlement Taskforce (AST) implementation plan.
Chris Jones
Clearing

Strengthening Defaulter Pays

Published: May 2025
Chris Jones, LME Clear Chief Operating Officer, explains how changes at LME Clear have strengthened its defaulter pays model.
Magnus Almqvist
Features

Q&A with Magnus Almqvist, CEO of Exberry

Published: May 2025
Magnus Almqvist, CEO of Exberry, shares why agile, modern infrastructure is essential for exchanges to keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving markets.
Adam Kirkman and Ben Stuart
ESG

Transparent Use of Carbon Credits and Renewable Energy Certificates: What Directors Need to Know

Published: May 2025
Adam Kirkman and Ben Stuart, Strategic Advisor and Chief Commercial Officer at Xpansiv, say organisations should take a strategic – not just compliant – approach to environmental markets.