BMV Promotion and Issuers Director Juan Manuel Olivo Tirado says the MIC programme is a great way for participants to add to their knowledge, generate ideas and analyse the industry.

Successful exchanges will be those ready to adopt innovative technologies. An authentic understanding of the complexities involved with modern, digital-first infrastructures is therefore crucial.

Secular trends, including the growth of passive investing and ETFs, the internalisation of portfolio management, and the integration of ESG factors into the investment process, are creating benchmark and index opportunities.

Exchanges should expect and be prepared for the unexpected. Working closely with the WFE team and members will go a long way in building a resilient, adaptive, sustainable and forward-looking ecosystem that can respond dynamically to changing trends that come our way.

SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof talks about launching a new joint venture exchange in Asia and his concerns about the impact of ongoing political conflicts.

A healthy society needs economic growth – to create jobs, generate tax revenue – and ultimately secure the future of everyone who lives in it. TMX is a passionate advocate for building Canada into a world-leading environment for businesses to succeed, with a fair and competitive business tax environment, globally-competitive incentives for entrepreneurs, and regulatory certainty and predictability.

We think it is important to share know-how and improve cooperation through technology with fellow exchanges and industry organizations. We continue to strive towards new initiatives and efforts to work with exchanges in Turkic Countries, Balkans and the Middle East particularly with regards to technology as well as other solutions and services.

Market participants are increasingly moving to adopt cloud-based services to enhance business agility and operational efficiency as well as to monitor and manage risk. Those features are also very important to us as a CCP and why we chose to utilize the cloud as part of our transformation efforts.

The consensus across financial services and businesses more generally is that we’re confronting an unprecedented set of risks in 2024. Geopolitical risk is the most significant as ongoing and escalating conflicts can potentially disrupt the markets and supply chains.