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Exchange Invest has today launched “The World’s Most Influential People in Market Structure”, the first index of the top 1000 most influential people in financial market infrastructure.
The World’s Most Influential People in Market Structure, also known as The Exchange Invest 1000 (EI1000), is a new index calculated annually to assess the individuals who have significant influence in the world of exchanges and market structure. The Index lists the 1000 most influential professionals in order of significance as measured by a series of algorithms and encompasses some 145 jurisdictions and over 500 different companies and organisations.
The book has been compiled by Exchange Invest, a division of specialist consultancy DV Advisors, which also produces the daily newsletter of the exchange industry. The book has been edited by Patrick L Young whose first book, “Capital Market Revolution!” discussed fintech a full decade before the term was first used to describe financial services technology.
Exchange Invest have drawn on their in-house expertise in the field of market structure of all kinds to develop a series of algorithms, which rank individuals according to the level of influence these figures have on the sector, helping to determine their qualification for the EI1000. Key criteria used in the methodology’s algorithms include: an individual’s incumbency, project execution and involvement with industry associations as well as their thought power and leadership, not to mention displaying an awareness of business trends beyond their direct responsibilities.
The full EI1000 index includes 34 sub-categories covering everything from the ‘top 10 overall’, the most influential CEOs, entrepreneurs, women, regulators, politicians, industry associations, fintech and blockchain enthusiasts, dealmakers and overall visionaries, to name but a few.
The EI1000 book also includes those who have resigned or retired from the exchange ‘parish’ during the period of calculation. Meanwhile, those who would have been included in previous years, but have fallen out of the index, are in the ‘relegated’ section.
The final section pays tribute to those in the market structure who have recently passed on: from Euronext boss Jean-Francois Theodore via Rory Collins, the trailblazing CTO of the Australian Stock Exchange to former NASDAQ President Magnus Bocker.
Patrick Young, CEO of Exchange Invest and author of EI1000, said: “It has taken over two years to create this index and involved reducing a long list of over 7500 people to a short list of circa 1500, before finalising the definite 1000 most influential individuals in the world of exchanges and market structure”.
“We have taken a thorough approach to our selection process, paying tribute to the men and women who shape global financial markets and infrastructure and we look forward to expanding on our annual index for years to come.”
