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
OCC Outlook for 2024
Published: Jan 2024
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.
Features
DTCC Outlook for 2024
Published: Jan 2024
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.
ESG
Boursa Kuwait's Outlook for 2024
Published: Jan 2024
Boursa Kuwait CEO Mohammad Saud Al-Osaimi reflects on sustainability and ESG themes, listings to come in 2024 and ETFs.
Features
Athens Stock Exchange's Outlook for 2024
Published: Jan 2024
Athens Exchange Group CEO Yianos Kontopoulos talks about the development of the exchange and what he is most excited about in coming months.
Features
Latinex's Outlook for 2024
Published: Jan 2024
Olga Cantillo, Executive President of Latinex, discusses the importance of the market in Panama as a leading economy on the rise in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Monthly Insights
Investor types in the SME markets
Published: Jan 2024
Dr Ishak Demir, Financial Economist at the WFE, writes about investor types in the SME markets.
CEO Letter
CEO Letter - January 2024
Published: Jan 2024
Welcome to the first edition of Focus in 2024.
In this month’s issue, a selection of our members review their highlights of 2023 and look ahead to interesting and exciting things that the coming year may bring.
Boon Chye Loh, the WFE Chairman and SGX CEO, highlights the importance of cooperation in building a resilient and solid global ecosystem.
SIX CEO Jos Dijsselhof talks about launching a new joint venture exchange in Asia and his concerns about the impact of ongoing political conflicts.
TMX CEO John McKenzie predicts sustainability will be an important theme this year as regulators work t...
ESG
Scaling Climate Risk Disclosures for Investors While Addressing Interoperability Risks
Published: Dec 2023
Martina Macpherson and Alexandra Pavlovskis, Head of ESG Products and ESG Product Strategy Lead at SIX, look at scaling climate risk disclosures for investors while addressing interoperability risks.
ESG
Financial Markets and Allocation of Capital Will Be an Integral Part in Enabling Decarbonisation
Published: Dec 2023
As an exchange our role is to provide transparency and integrity, create transparent markets to allocate capital in the most efficient way possible, and support corporates in their effort to decarbonise through different tools and services.