BMV Promotion and Issuers Director Juan Manuel Olivo Tirado says the MIC programme is a great way for participants to add to their knowledge, generate ideas and analyse the industry.

Successful exchanges will be those ready to adopt innovative technologies. An authentic understanding of the complexities involved with modern, digital-first infrastructures is therefore crucial.

Secular trends, including the growth of passive investing and ETFs, the internalisation of portfolio management, and the integration of ESG factors into the investment process, are creating benchmark and index opportunities.

Dr Ying Liu, Financial Economist at the WFE, writes about voluntary carbon markets.

Welcome to the February edition of Focus. 

In this month’s issue, BME CEO Javier Hernani highlights some of the seminal issues we'll be discussing at WFEClear in Spain. 

Cboe Head of Market Data & Access Services for Europe Stephen Dorrian and Juan Manuel Olivo Tirado, BMV’s Promotion and Issuers Director, talk about their experiences on the WFE's Market Infrastructure Certificate. 

Exberry CEO Guy Melamed predicts that we will bear witness to the much-anticipated tipping point for transformation of market infrastructure, and TMX Group explains how its acquisition of the VettaFi indexing and a...

Exchanges should expect and be prepared for the unexpected. Working closely with the WFE team and members will go a long way in building a resilient, adaptive, sustainable and forward-looking ecosystem that can respond dynamically to changing trends that come our way.