Editor's Pick
How to Build From Strength
Within the context of the recent BIS-CPMI-IOSCO consultative reports, Richard Haynes, Deputy Director, Risk Surveillance at the CFTC, and Nancy Doyle, Senior Special Counsel, share their thoughts on the proposals and why they are best framed as an enhancement of current transparency levels, which to a larger or smaller degree can build from an already strong base.
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Features
News & Views
Stock Exchanges can join Global Money Week, 12–18 March 2018
Published: Feb 2018
Global Money Week, a CYFI initiative, is an annual money awareness campaign built to inspire children and young people to learn about money matters, livelihoods and entrepreneurship.
ESG
Luxembourg Stock Exchange partners with China’s Agricultural Development Bank to expand the green bond market
Published: Feb 2018
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Agricultural Development Bank of China (ADBC) to set up an access scheme to display ADBC’s green, poverty alleviation and sustainability bonds on the Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) platform.
News & Views
A viewpoint on the regulation of financial markets
Published: Feb 2018
We hear from Dr. Alexandra Hachmeister, Chief Regulatory Officer, Head of Group Regulatory Strategy, Deutsche Börse AG following the recent WFE Working Committee.
CCPs
Current regulatory priorities for CCP recovery and resolution
Published: Feb 2018
Clément Rouveyrol, Market Infrastructure Expert, ECB Oversight Division, takes us through current regulatory priorities for CCP recovery and resolution, following a presentation by Dr. Corinna Freund, Principal, ECB Oversight Division to the WFE Working Committee last month.
News & Views
Cultivating high-quality financial literacy for Thais
Published: Jan 2018
We are delighted to welcome a contribution from Thailand Securities Institute (TSI), The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)about its financial literacy programme, delivered through its innovative investment museum INVESTORY.
News & Views
Welcome to the Markets Economy
Published: Jan 2018
Adena Friedman, President & CEO, Nasdaq writes about the idea of adapting the best features of equities markets into more of our daily transactions - what Nasdaq calls the Markets Economy.
Technology
The WFE publishes best practice guidelines for cyber security compliance
Published: Jan 2018
The WFE has published a set of best practice guidelines for market infrastructures designed to engender a staff culture of cyber security compliance.
Technology
The WFE publishes position paper on FinTech in the market infrastructure space
Published: Jan 2018
The WFE has published a position paper summarising its current views on FinTech and the regulatory environment surrounding it.
CCPs
DTCC launches white paper on 'Modernising the U.S. equity markets post-trade infrastructure'
Published: Jan 2018
Murray Pozmanter, Managing Director and Head of Clearing Agency Services and Global Operations at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) sat down with Focus recently to discuss DTCC’s newest white paper 'Modernising the U.S. Equity Markets Post-Trade Infrastructure'.