On Wednesday 3 October 2018, at the 58th General Assembly in Athens , the WFE elected seven Directors of the Board.

At the recent 58th WFE GA&AM in Athens, William Coen, Secretary General, Basel Committee on Banking Supervision sat down for a fireside chat with Edward Tilly, Chairman & CEO of Cboe Global Markets, and discussed the importance of global standards. Here, William writes about the Committee's programme, and looks ahead to the future now the reform agenda has been finalised.

We talk to Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation about the organisation's role in collecting, exhibiting and promoting contemporary photography.

Malaysia has championed and led the way in the development of Islamic Finance ecosystems over the last four decades, successfully establishing itself as one of the most advanced countries in the global Islamic Finance scene today, writes Noorsuriani Muhamed, Vice President, Product & Market Development, Islamic Capital Market, Bursa Malaysia.

The WFE has announced its forthcoming General Assembly & Annual Meeting, to be held from 2-4 October, in Athens, Greece.

A Q&A with Michael Leibrock, Managing Director, Credit & Systemic Risk, DTCC and Adrien Vanderlinden, Executive Director, Systemic Risk Office, DTCC looking at the DTCC’s recent white paper, The Next Crisis Will Be Different – Opportunities to Continue Enhancing Financial Stability.

Founded in 1973 as the first US listed options exchange, Cboe Global Markets further revolutionised the financial world 10 years later with the introduction of options on broad-based stock indexes, S&P 500 Index options (SPX^SM).

Works by Brazilian artists including Anita Malfatti, Alberto da Veiga Guignard, Benedito Calixto, Candido Portinari and Emiliano di Cavalcanti have been loaned by B3 to MASP, and will be part of the museum’s collection for the next 30 years.

Joanna Perkins, CEO, Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC), discusses the potentially complicated issues arising from the UK leaving the European Union, and how this may impact the finance industry.