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
Exchanges Can Create Transparency in ESG
Published: Jun 2022
Change follows capital. If investors believe in ESG, change is possible. I think there is indeed a a paradigm shift going on. ESG used to be suitable for risk mitigation, now it is also understood as a yield factor.
Features
The World Federation of Exchanges New Research Finds Circuit Breakers Effective as Tools to Manage Volatility
Published: Jun 2022
The World Federation of Exchanges New Research Finds Circuit Breakers Effective as Tools to Manage Volatility
Monthly Insights
Investment flows
Published: Jun 2022
Mihaela Croitoru, Statistics Database Manager at the WFE, writes about investment flows on the world's stock exchanges.
CEO Letter
CEO Letter - June 2022
Published: Jun 2022
Welcome to June. I write from the WFE’s CCP & Derivatives conference which caps a week of member meetings – the first time we have met as a community since January 2020. We are delighted to resume in-person meetings and welcome our members from all over the world again.
Focus this month explores some of the themes raised in these conversations.
Jos Dijsselhof, CEO of SIX Group AG and Chair of the WFE’s Working Committee, the engine of WFE’s policy and education work, shares his views on the role exchanges can play in ESG, raising capital, DeFI and building an infrastructure f...
Features
Tokenised Assets May Dramatically Transform Securities Trading
Published: May 2022
The new processes and the saving of time, brokers and margins will reduce costs, making trading in securities more accessible, affordable and friendly than ever.
Features
SET Steps into 48th Year of Operation: Moving Forward in the Capital Market
Published: May 2022
Moving toward the 48th anniversary, SET is ready to confront new challenges, to seize opportunities and to remain committed to serving as a mechanism to promote the sustainable growth of businesses, society and the country following our vision, which is “To Make the Capital Market 'Work' for Everyone.”
Features
What Can We Expect From a Good Margin Model?
Published: May 2022
The model is designed to estimate how much a portfolio could change in value over a fixed time period to some degree of confidence, often 99% or 99.5%. But how would we know whether its estimates are good?
ESG
Partnering to Scale Carbon Removal
Published: May 2022
How Nasdaq is teaming up with Puro.earth to reduce the climate footprint of corporates.
Features
Unfinished Business - John McPartland
Published: May 2022
John McPartland asserts that having GSIB scores for clearing members might have prevented the harmful concentration present today in the clearing space.