Mihaela Croitoru, Database Manager at the WFE, writes about securitised derivatives trends on the world's stock exchanges.

For decades financial markets have demonstrated their ability to serve as powerful engines for economic growth. As financial institutions increasingly adopt transformational technology, it will unleash the power of markets to drive efficiencies, bring new assets classes online and ultimately create a more inclusive and prosperous future.

CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger discusses her first year as a commissioner and all of its challenges.

The establishment of CCPs in emerging markets has been found to improve market liquidity, boost transparency, reduce volatility, manage risk and fundamentally increase trust amongst the many stakeholders by a factor of up to 20%. The concomitant benefit to emerging economies has been an exponential growth in foreign investment. Perhaps the biggest benefit of all is the increasing integration of emerging markets into global financial markets.

In analysing the events of the last year, we can conclude that CCPs remained stable and were able to continue their critical operations. Also, trading on natural gas derivatives markets generally remained orderly despite the high volatility and the sharp reduction in liquidity.

David Murphy, Visiting Professor at London School of Economics' Department of Law, considers what is next for financial market infrastructures after the collapse of FTX.

JSE Clear CEO and Director of Post Trade Services for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Alicia Greenwood and Head of Post Trade Strategy Hemash Kala examine the importance of central counterparty clearing in the growth and development of emerging markets.

Mihaela Croitoru, Database Manager at the WFE, writes about currency derivatives trends on the world's stock exchanges.

Exchanges and CCPs worldwide 'Ring the Bell for Gender Equality 2023'