How Nasdaq is teaming up with Puro.earth to reduce the climate footprint of corporates.

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?

John McPartland asserts that having GSIB scores for clearing members might have prevented the harmful concentration present today in the clearing space.

The advantages of central clearing, well known by market participants and regulators, could be extended to new asset classes.

Welcome to the May issue of WFE Focus.

In this month’s edition, we look ahead to our CCP & Derivatives Conference at the end of May – our first meeting in person since the pandemic began.

To get us started, both at the conference and in Focus, we have contributions from four of our erudite and knowledgeable speakers.

SIX Head of Clearing & Repo Operations José Manuel Ortiz looks at the implications of extending central clearing to new asset classes amid an industry debate on the path forward.

Dr David Murphy, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, writes of the ways a better mar...

Nasdaq talks about the journey to net zero, carbon removal and how the investment in Puro.earth is part of the plan.