ChrisJul 213 minNew exchanges or new platforms?It seems that new exchanges are being established constantly. So much so that the UK regulator, the licensor of new exchanges, now charge...
ChrisJun 18 minWhat do Issuers think?Background: In 2019 Hembury Associates undertook a survey on corporate Issuers’ views on the continuing value of a Stock Exchange Listing...
ChrisMar 63 minBlockchain's biggest barrier - the desire for changeI attended recently a seminar entitled The Settlement and Custody of Digital Assets. This was advertised as a chance to debate the contra...
ChrisDec 18, 20195 minUK Dividends in the 21st centuryPotential role of Custodians in UK Issuer Dividends Summary: The 2019 Issuer Survey identified a view from issuers that the topical probl...
ChrisSep 18, 20192 min What value a listing?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 maj...
ChrisJun 21, 20192 minEquivalence of nothingThe threatened exclusion of the Swiss markets from the EU seems to have been more than sabre-rattling of legal quills. As I write, the Sw...
ChrisMay 11, 20192 minA tale of irish settlementThe trading of shares on a stock exchange creates a contract between buyer and seller to deliver and pay for the shares being transacted....
ChrisMar 17, 20192 minBarriers to Retail InvestmentThere has been an announcement that the EU are to conduct a study into why retail investors are not flocking into capital markets and the...
ChrisFeb 17, 20191 minMultiple Listings in the Frame Damage seems to have been inflicted recently to the cross-border reach of a company’s shareholder population by the EU ruling, unhelpfull...
ChrisJan 25, 20192 minStep back to Global The Davos forum this week was celebrating “Globalisation 4.0” – the age of the fourth industrial revolution. But commentators are, simult...
ChrisJan 8, 20192 minA London Mercantile exchange?Mercantile Exchanges cover a variety of functions – aside from speculative trading. In commodity markets where the quality of what is off...
ChrisDec 30, 20181 minExchange ActionThe news just before Christmas that Euronext was engaged in a mating dance with the Olso Stock Exchange makes a deal of sense. Unlike man...
ChrisDec 19, 20182 minThe balkanisation of MarketsArguably the end of the globalisation of markets was called by McKinsey a few years after the Lehman crisis. In a report entitled Financi...
ChrisDec 3, 20181 minPolitics and Markets don't mixThe current spat between the EU and Switzerland over market “equivalence” is depressing, because it confirms the scale of political encro...
ChrisDec 1, 20183 minWhere have all the markets gone?Last year the Commission of the US Regulator the CFTC said in a speech: "many small to medium-sized FCMs [Futures Commission Merchants – ...
ChrisDec 1, 20181 minAsset TokenisationThe current focus of the digital industry on "Asset Tokenisation" is a response to a need by investors and trades to broaden the investme...
