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
Technology
No longer an afterthought: Post-trade is ripe for innovation
Published: Aug 2017
Following his electric participation on the Market Infrastructures, Post Trade and Fintech – Finding the Valuepanel at the recent WFE & Imperial College Technology Conference, Arjun Jayaram, CEO, Baton Systems tells us why the post-trade space is ready for innovation.
Emerging Markets
New European regulation will have unintended consequences for emerging markets
Published: Jun 2017
Anne Clayton, Head: Public Policy, Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) takes us through the potential consequences of regulation such as MiFIR and MiFID II on emerging exchanges.
News & Views
Market data: challenges and opportunities for market infrastructures
Published: Jun 2017
Anton Govor, Head of Strategy, MOEX, takes us through how Big Data and AI could be applied to financial infrastructures.
Technology
Preparation is key to successful cyber security management system
Published: Jun 2017
The key to a successful cyber security management system is to prepare well and expect incidents in the system, writes Scott Yang, Cybersecurity Manager, Taiwan Stock Exchange.
Technology
DTCC launches new cloud computing white paper
Published: Jun 2017
Video interview with DTCC’s Rob Palatnick, Managing Director & Chief Technology Architect where he discusses the key points of DTCC's recently launched cloud computing white paper.
ESG
WFE and GRI host roundtable on effective ESG reporting
Published: Jun 2017
The WFE co-hosted a moderated round-table discussion with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in London on 7 June 2017, focused on effective ESG reporting.
ESG
Exchanges should support the growth of sustainable finance
Published: Jun 2017
Robert Scharfe, CEO, Luxembourg Stock Exchange writes about the role of exchanges in facilitating the development of the sustainable finance market.
Emerging Markets
WFE takes part in 6th Annual Building African Financial Markets seminar
Published: May 2017
The Casablanca Stock Exchange hosted the 6th Annual Building African Financial Markets seminar in Casablanca on 18 & 19 May 2017.
News & Views
Evolving the capital markets ecosystem
Published: May 2017
This article by Adena Friedman, President & CEO, Nasdaq was originally published in the 2017 edition of the Milken Institute’s The Power of Ideas.