The 61st General Assembly and Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges (the WFE) took place on 27-29 September hosted by the Malta Stock Exchange. This year's event brought together leaders of global exchanges, regulatory authorities, the buy-side and industry experts from academia at the Hilton Hotel in Malta to transfer knowledge and share expertise on major issues affecting the exchange industry.
The conference agenda included but was not limited to the following topics:
- Resilience & Recovery: The Role of Market Infrastructure through the pandemic and beyond
- L is for Liquidity
- Squaring the circle – global markets and fragmenting regulation
- Innovation in Technology
- The Crypto Market: so near and yet so far
- Building the Market Infrastructure of the Future – Into the Next Decade
- Indexing the Future
- What is Green?
As part of the conference, Iosif Itkin, CEO & co-founder of Exactpro, participated in the Innovation in Technology discussion alongside Simon Zammit, CEO, Malta Stock Exchange, and Nils-Robert Persson, Founder & Chairman, Vermiculus Financial Technology AB.
The topics covered included:
✅Cloud services: the challenges and advantages of services in the cloud;
✅DLT – What are the use cases that are valuable for DLT solutions?
✅Cybersecurity concerns – are we enhancing risk by using these new technologies?
The Exactpro team would like to thank all attendees and the organisers for putting together such an insightful Annual Meeting. We are delighted to have been able to meet the participants in person to discuss how the Exactpro team’s expertise can be leveraged for increasing the operational resilience of global exchange systems. We were also honoured to have the opportunity to introduce the participants to th2 – Exactpro’s framework for automation in functional and non-functional testing.