Editor's Pick
TotalMarkets: Making the case for market structure reform
Adena Friedman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nasdaq writes about the firm's new blueprint - TotalMarkets: Blueprint for a Better Tomorrow - which focuses on the market structure that supports the trading of public companies, offering five objectives for regulatory market reform.
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Features
CCPs
The indirect impacts of regulatory reform on CCPs
Published: May 2018
Sean Downey, Executive Director, Global Clearing & Risk Policy, CME Group, and newly elected Chair of the WFE's CCP Working Group looks at how regulatory reform can lead to unintended consequences for CCPs.
Emerging Markets
Latin America: The development of capital markets through technological cooperation
Published: Apr 2018
Roberto Belchior, Managing Director, Latin America Market Development, B3 writes about the recent B3 and Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (BYMA) technology agreement, and what it means for the future of Latin American capital markets.
News & Views
Maintaining market integrity - watch the latest WFE video
Published: Apr 2018
Watch the WFE's latest video, which focuses on the important role of exchanges and CCPs in maintaining market integrity.
News & Views
Cboe VIX Index marks 25th anniversary as the world’s barometer of equity volatility
Published: Apr 2018
Edward Tilly, Chairman & CEO of Cboe Global Markets writes here about the 25th anniversary of the VIX.
News & Views
The WFE & Oliver Wyman publish joint report examining importance of market integrity
Published: Apr 2018
The WFE has launched a joint report with Oliver Wyman, global management consultants, which examines the pivotal role of market infrastructures in ensuring market integrity.
CCPs
The interconnectedness of CCPs and banks
Published: Apr 2018
Ryan Ingram, Group Regulatory Analytics, Risk Policy & FMI Strategy, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. (HKEX) summarises the themes from the panel he moderated at IOMA earlier in April.
Emerging Markets
The WFE attends 7th Building African Financial Markets seminar
Published: Apr 2018
On 19 April 2018, Siobhan Cleary, the WFE’s Head of Research & Public Policy, joined over 100 African exchange CEOs, regulators, and market participants for the seventh Building African Financial Markets (BAFM) capacity building seminar.
Emerging Markets
Enhancing the financing capability of SMEs & family firms: the experience in China
Published: Mar 2018
At the recent WFE SME conference in Malta, Dr Zeng Bin, Researcher, Research Institute, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) took part in a panel focused on the WFE report on listing family-run businesses. Here he writes about the experience of financing SMEs in China.
Emerging Markets
Fundraising by SMEs in Malaysia
Published: Mar 2018
Hanita Othman, Vice President, Primary Market, Listing Development, Bursa Malaysia (BM) recently took part in the WFE’s SME conference, on a panel about global perspectives and solutions, and writes here about how BM has helped fundraising efforts by SMEs.