I attended recently a seminar entitled The Settlement and Custody of Digital Assets. This was advertised as a chance to debate the contrast in value to inves...

Potential role of Custodians in UK Issuer Dividends Summary: The 2019 Issuer Survey identified a view from issuers that the topical problem of shareholder tr...

It has long been assumed that in order to qualify as a “proper” company, a stock exchange listing is required. Yet a recent survey of major European companie...

The threatened exclusion of the Swiss markets from the EU seems to have been more than sabre-rattling of legal quills. As I write, the Swiss have been given ...

The trading of shares on a stock exchange creates a contract between buyer and seller to deliver and pay for the shares being transacted. The contractual obl...

There has been an announcement that the EU are to conduct a study into why retail investors are not flocking into capital markets and the investment products...

Damage seems to have been inflicted recently to the cross-border reach of a company’s shareholder population by the EU ruling, unhelpfully, over the situatio...

The Davos forum this week was celebrating “Globalisation 4.0” – the age of the fourth industrial revolution. But commentators are, simultaneously, pointing t...

Mercantile Exchanges cover a variety of functions – aside from speculative trading. In commodity markets where the quality of what is offered is as important...

The news just before Christmas that Euronext was engaged in a mating dance with the Olso Stock Exchange makes a deal of sense. Unlike many EU stock exchanges...

Arguably the end of the globalisation of markets was called by McKinsey a few years after the Lehman crisis. In a report entitled Financial Globalization: Re...

The current spat between the EU and Switzerland over market “equivalence” is depressing, because it confirms the scale of political encroachment into the ope...

Last year the Commission of the US Regulator the CFTC said in a speech: "many small to medium-sized FCMs [Futures Commission Merchants – effectively derivati...

The current focus of the digital industry on "Asset Tokenisation" is a response to a need by investors and trades to broaden the investment pool beyond share...