The WFE has responded to the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) Consultation Document.

In this video, Mark Wetjen, Managing Director & Head of Global Public Policy, DTCC talks about how it is still early days for regulators and crypto currencies. But with growing interest from retail investors in crypto currency markets, regulators are increasing their scrutiny of the digital currency.

Turkish capital markets witnessed a landmark cooperation in 2014, when Borsa İstanbul signed a strategic partnership agreement with NASDAQ, writes Ali Işık, EVP-IT Systems and Infrastructure and M. Ufuk Özdemir, EVP-IT Application Development, Borsa Istanbul.

There are already many cryptocurrencies and trading platforms, but none of them really meet the needs of the serious investor, writes Thomas Zeeb, Head Securities & Exchanges, SIX Group. That could all be about to change – thanks to a solution made in Switzerland that opens up new opportunities for the Swiss financial centre.

The WFE has published its response to the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) Cyber Lexicon Consultation.

Research from Nasdaq, in collaboration with Celent, into capital markets infrastructure technology, has uncovered three important trends: the factors that are driving changes in market infrastructure; how MIs are using technology to support business strategies; and how technology spend is evolving.

Yimei Li, CEO, China Asset Management, a panellist at the WFE's recent Fostering Growth in Global Capital Markets symposium in China, writes about how FinTech is changing the finance industry in China.

Dubi Vigdorovich, Cyber, CISO & Data Security Unit Manager, Information Technology and Operations Department, Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), provides tips on mitigating cybersecurity vulnerabilities at exchanges.

Kesara Manchusree, President of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) writes in May's edition of Focus about the launch of 'LiVE', a new blockchain-based platform that aims to boost startups in Thailand.