It seems that new exchanges are being established constantly. So much so that the UK regulator, the licensor of new exchanges, now...

Background: In 2019 Hembury Associates undertook a survey on corporate Issuers’ views on the continuing value of a Stock Exchange...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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