Unified shareholding will take Baltic Exchange forward: CEO

Singapore

FEW people understand the difficulties of steering a 273-year-old institution as well as Mark Jackson, who once chaired the venerable Baltic Exchange for three years after the global financial crisis.

But when he was asked to return to the Baltic as chief executive under its new owner - the Singapore Exchange (SGX) - it was the prospect of finally being able to move the organisation into the future that drew Mr Jackson back into the fold.