—Bob Birnbaum, a former president of the New York Stock Exchange, on the qualities of William J. Brodsky, chairman and ceo of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, who is to receive the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Global Derivatives Awards ceremony on Sept. 19, 2013 at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London.
Social bonds have become an established part of the funding market for supranational, sovereign and agency borrowers, with a steady output of about €140bn a year from all kinds of issuer, since the exceptional surge during the pandemic.
