FEAS Yearbook FEAS Yearbook 2020 | Page 53

Yearbook 2020

Athens Stock Exchange SA

About Athens Stock Exchange SA

Established: 1876 (Listed in ATHEX since Aug 21, 2000)

Chairman: Mr. George Handjinicolaou

CEO: Mr. Socrates Lazaridis

Address: 110 Athinon Avenue, 104 42,

Athens, Greece

Contact person: Leonidas Papadopoulos

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.athexgroup.gr

About Company

Established: 1876

Chairman: Mr. George Handjinicolaou

CEO: Mr. Socrates Lazaridis

Address: 110 Athinon Avenue, 104 42,

Athens, Greece

Contact person: Leonidas Papadopoulos

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.athexgroup.gr

- Joined FEAS in 2017-

Mr. Socrates Lazaridis

Chief Executive Officer

Strategic goals:

- Increase Tradeable Assets in the local market

- Leverage offered products and services to other infrastructures via the common platform or other forms of co-operation with Exchanges and other Market Operators

- Expand its International Network Services to Market Infrastructures

Enabling Activities:

- Strengthen pre-IPO space with particular focus on SMEs

- Improve the Operational Efficiency

-Smart adaptation to regulatory compliance and additional leverage of CSDR and SRD II services

In 2021 ATHEX Group will also continue ongoing initiatives for the promotion of its listed companies to the global investment community in order to increase their coverage by stock market analysts and improve the liquidity of their shares. More specifically:

•The 16th Annual Greek Roadshow in London. The “15th Annual Greek Roadshow in London” was digitally organized in September 2020 with 34 listed companies participating and more than 700 on-to-one virtual meetings taking place. For more information see here.

•The “10th Greek Investment New York Forum” .The “9th Greek Investment New York Forum” was digitally organized along with the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in June 2020 with 27 listed companies participating and more than 550 on-to-one virtual meetings with 77 investment fund and 116 asset managers. For more information see here.

•The “4th Athex Small Cap Conference”. The “3rdAthex Small Cap Conference” was digitally organized in Novembe 2020r. During a two days’ period, 14 high-ranking representatives of listed companies with a capitalization of less than 100 million euros had the opportunity to present to Greek and foreign fund managers and analysts the investment plans of their companies. For more information see here.

•The “3rdAthex Mid Cap Conference” was digitally organized in October giving the opportunity to 10 listed companies to meet and discuss with local and institutional investors about their companies’ performance, their strategic goals and outlook for the future.

•The “1st Real Estate Conference” was organized in Athens in February with 9 listed companies from the Real Estate sector getting the chance to present their profile and investment plans with more than οne-to-one and group meetings taking place. For more information see here.

Following the succesful launch in 2020 of the “ATHEX Innovation Program”, ATHEXGroup will continue to engage talent and explore emerging Digital Trends for ATHEXGroup and the Capital Market ecosystem.

"2020 was marked by an unprecedented global crisis due to the coronavirus. Despite the ongoing disruption caused by the pandemic, the operations of ATHEX Group continued smoothly, mostly remotely. At the same time new large scale projects where completed. These included the provision of trading and clearing systems & services for the successful launch of the HENEX intraday, next day and balancing electricity market under the EU Target model along with power derivatives, the launch of the AXIA e-Shareholders Meeting platform for e-voting and e-running of GMs of listed companies, the launch of the SRD II services of the ATHEXCSD and the preparation of the ATHEXCSD for its CSDR license from April 2021".