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July 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: IG reports successful financial year, market situation in Germany explained

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, began developing common taxonomy for stablecoins which will also cover crypto-assets more broadly. The development of taxonomy will create common regulatory classifications of the sablecoins in response to their recent growth before they fragment any further. The WFE asked the Financial Stability…

WFE started developing common taxonomy on stablecoins

July 22, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

WFE calls for common regulatory classification of stablecoins

WFE has expressed its belief that regulators should cooperate to share information on global stablecoing and crypto-assets and issues on the trading platforms. To address customer protection and market integrity, a formalised co-ordinated approaches to enforcement and oversight in general need to be developed. Nandini Sukumar, Chief Executive Officer of the WFE said: We support…

July 17, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXOpen UK acquires AMB Prime, FXCubic partners with Equiti Group for liquidity solutions

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs’ Sustainability Survey reported growing investor demand for ESG disclosure. The WFE sustainability survey encapsulates the extent of the engagement of its members in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues across developed and emerging markets. The survey is carried out annually. The…

WFE reports 41% of exchanges have initiatives that correspond to the five Sustainability Principles

July 15, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

WFE’s Sustainability Survey reports growing investor demand for ESG disclosure

The key findings of the WFE survey include: Exchanges continue to develop sustainability efforts through the WFE Sustainability Principles. Among the exchanges participating in the survey, 41% had initiatives that correspond to all five Sustainability Principles. Almost 90% of the exchanges saw investor demand for ESG disclosure, of which 29% believed demand to be extensive.…

March 30, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

World Federation of Exchanges cautions against banning short-sales

The Federation advises that the measures to ban short-selling are not achieving the desired effect and unlike other circuit breakers and other safeguards put in place to slow markets down, banning short-selling inhibits orderly markets rather than promote them. Circuit breakers allow investors time to absorb and understand information and making their trade decisions more…

December 20, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

The World Federation of Exchanges responds to MAS regarding derivatives contracts on crypto assets

The WFE (the World Federation of Exchanges), the global industry group for exchanges and central counterparties called CCPs, has recently given a response to MAS, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Consultation Paper on Proposed Regulatory Approach for Derivatives Contracts on Payment Tokens or so crypto assets. The response given by WFE stresses the significance of the role…

Paxful launches wallet app, releases a series of educational workshops in Africa

December 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

WFE signs MoU with African Securities Exchanges Association

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) has informed the public that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the African Securities Exchanges Association (ASEA). According to WFE and the Association, the two main goals of the memorandum will be: to support the development of market infrastructures in Africa, and a wider African capital market ecosystem…

November 20, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

WFE launches new website & members’ portal

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has announced that it has launched a new website and members’ portal as part of its ongoing transformation programme, using digital communications as a key element of its engagement with industry stakeholders and its membership base. The new website, designed and…

BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland

October 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

The World Federation of Exchanges elects seven Board Directors

At the 58th General Assembly in Athens today, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has elected seven Directors of the Board. Today’s seven elected Directors of the Board are as follows: Dr Urs Rüegsegger, Chairman, SIX Swiss Exchange - Chairman, WFE (2-year term) Mr Edward Tilly,…

October 03, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

The World Federation of Exchanges admits six new members

At the 58th General Assembly in Athens today, the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has informed that it has admitted six new members taking the total number of full members to 70, an historic high. With six members joining since the last General Assembly in 2017, the…

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