GFF Podcast

In our final episode of Season 5, we explore the outlook for the next financial year, drawing insights from the international community at the recent IMF gathering in Washington. We discuss blended finance, new currents in climate finance and the changing flow of international capital from established markets and developing economies. Join our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossle...

In this episode, we take an in-depth look into the world of corporate treasury with the legendary fashion brand Hermès and fintech innovator TreasurySpring.  With Thomas Bourbon (Hermès) and Henry Adams (TreasurySpring), we discuss the evolving role of repo and securities lending in corporate treasury operations, joined by Matthieu Topkimoff (Clearstream) and our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker...

On this show, Eva-Maria Keller and Thomas Daniels (Clearstream) join Jason Brown (Google Cloud) for a conversation with hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler. Together, they explore post-trade platform initiatives, AI tools, and blockchain-based collateral management. As the ECB begins accepting digital collateral issued in CSDs, Clearstream, together with its partners, is positioned to...

Join us for a special, extended episode featuring interviews with keynote speakers, experts and leaders from this year's 30th anniversary GFF Summit and the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund Forum. We review recent updates from the ECB regarding DLT collateral, examining their impact on the markets, tokenization, stablecoins, and digital payment systems. Additionally, we discuss the EU&a...

In our Christmas special, we are joined by Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of the Geoeconomics Center at the Atlantic Council, to discuss the major economic events and geopolitical shifts of 2025, and what we should expect next year. Charles will be the opening keynote speaker at our 2026 GFF Summit  and will also co-host the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Summit alongside our podcast hosts...

Join our expert T+1 guests, Kathie Waldie and Roy Zimmerhansl, for a feature-length exploration of the T+1 transition. We review the current progress across EU, UK, and Swiss workstreams, discuss implications for settlement discipline and operational changes, and consider the impact on securities lending, repo, and collateral management beyond the 2027 deadline. Join Andrew Keith Walker and Christ...

In this special episode, we chat with Kalin Anev Janse, CFO of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). We discuss the evolving role of the ESM, the Savings and Investments Union, ESG holdings and the role of the Euro as a global reserve currency. Join Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler for a lively chat about the future of EU finances and the role of the EU in the global economy of the futu...

This month, we take an in-depth look at the rapidly evolving world of cash management and FX with Carlo Kölzer, founding partner of 360T, and Lars Janssen, Head of Liquidity Solutions Product Development at Clearstream. We discuss the needs of market participants and central banks as they manage multi-currency accounts in times of extreme market volatility following trade tariffs, reduced settleme...

We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of GC Pooling®, Deutsche Börse Group’s segment tailored to meet the needs of short-term collateralized money market trading and financing, as well as efficient collateral management . This episode brings together some of the people who made it happen, as well as the leaders driving today’s innovations that ensure GC Pooling remains a high-tech channel at the...

Join us for Season 5 of the GFF podcast with a deep dive into geoeconomics in 2025. We'll explore trade, tariffs, politics, markets, and economic trends in the EU, UK, U.S., and beyond, featuring insights from Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center. With nearly half of the world voting in recent national elections, what are the current geoeconomi...

In our series four finale, we have a feature-length show with senior Ukrainian finance leaders Yuriy Butsa (Commissioner for Public Debt Management) and Yuriy Heletiy (Deputy Governor, National Bank of Ukraine). We discuss Ukraine's extraordinary financial system resilience in the face of a military invasion, its economic performance and strong monetary controls, and consider the costs and op...

Join us for this special live show recorded at the GFF Summit 2025. Dive into the insights and analysis from our keynote speakers: Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of Geoeconomics at the Atlantic Council and James Pomeroy, Global Economist at HSBC, plus a special interview with Harri Vikstedt, Senior Director for Financial Markets at the Bank of Canada. With this year’s key theme “Navigating Unc...

Happy New Year! We are back with a special preview of the 2025 Global Funding and Financing (GFF) Summit – on “Navigating uncertainty: Geopolitics and market dynamics”. The summit will take place in Luxembourg on 29-30 January. In this episode, we discuss about the big themes and keynote speakers that will make up the event’s agenda, focusing on collateral optimisation, regulatory changes and the...

Join us for our special year-end episode, where we reflect on a year of fintech innovation in securities lending and collateral management. We'll be making predictions about 2025 with regular hosts, Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler, plus our special guest Barnaby Nelson – fintech innovation expert and CEO of the Value Exchange. Additionally, our guest co-host, Fabrice Tomenko, will j...

In this special feature episode, we're joined by Olivier d'Assier (Lead Principal, Investment Decision Research, SimCorp) to discuss the reaction of global markets to Donald Trump's re-election, Labour's historic UK budget, and the rapidly changing political landscape in the EU. With co-hosts Andrew Keith Walker, Christian Rossler and James Cherry, we analyse the impact of thes...

This is a reminder that our November episode will arrive the week after the US Election. We'll be joined by Oliver D'assier the Lead Principal, Investment Decision Research at Simcorp, and James Cherry the head of Business Development for Clearstream's Collateral, Liquidity and Lending Solutions team. Together, we'll predict the impact of the US Election, Labour's first UK...

This month we take a deep dive into treasury operations and the advantages of Clearstream’s unique marriage broking service within triparty repo. We discuss how Clearstream matches sell-side and buy-side market participants with new market opportunities, plus bilateral and triparty repo, foreign exchange (FX) swaps, cleared and uncleared services to manage cash across multiple jurisdictions. Join...

This month, we're joined by the SFT European Repo Team of 2024 - Eurex - to discuss the new balance sheet netting and collateral optimisation products developed in partnership with Clearstream. Join Jean-Robert Wilkin (Senior Adviser, Clearstream), Frank Gast (MD, Board Member and Global Head of Sales, - Eurex Repo) and Frank Odendall (Head of SF products and Business Development, Eurex Repo)...

This month's show takes a deep dive into collateral management with Gaël Delaunay, Head of Collateral Management at Clearstream. Joined by Priya Sharma, Head of Data & Client Connectivity, we explore the technology and the data strategy underpinning the latest innovations in collateral management. We also take a closer look at major milestones in our D7 digital issuance platform, tokenisa...

For our new season premiere, we're presenting a show with industry leaders from ISLA, BNY, Clearstream and HQLAx. Featuring insights and analysis from Ina Budh-Raja & Andrew Dyson (ISLA), Marton Szigeti, James Cherry, Banu Apers, Alexandre Roques, Marc Poinsignon & Jean-Robert Wilkin (Clearstream) and Elisa Poutanen & Charlie Amesbury (HQLAx). Listen for insights into collateral o...

In our final episode of Season 3, we take an in-depth look at Clearstream's newly added central bank money (CeBM) settlement for triparty repo. Integrated with the EU’s TARGET2 real-time gross settlement platform, CeBM opens up uncleared triparty repos to a wider market of more diverse financial and non-financial counterparties. CeBM is designed to facilitate entities such as debt management...

In this show, we discuss the arrival of ETFs in securities lending and the new product and service offerings to meet the demand for ETF lending at Clearstream. As ETFs with fixed income underlying assets are now available for securities lending and eligible for use in both fails and strategic securities lending products, we go in-depth with ETF expert Allan Stewart (Exec. Director of ETF Sales and...

Tune in to the newest episode of the #GFFpodcast featuring Bart Coppens, one of the architects of OSCAR, our AI-based application for collateral management, and Fabrice Tomenko, innovation leader and CEO of Clearstream International S.A. Together with host Andrew Keith Walker they explore the latest #AI fintech innovations and the next generation of AI workplace tools. 

In this show  we interview senior leaders live at the GFF Summit on the rising repo markets, T+1, collateral management, intraday trading & liquidity concerns, AI in finance, Central Banks, CCPs, changing monetary policy & ECB operations, clearing US Treasuries, sustainable development goals, green finance and more - with Dr. Karsten Stroborn (Deutsche Bundesbank), Leslie Maasdoorp (New De...

In this special year-end episode, we explore the changing EU money market ecosystem. We discuss quantitative tightening, new developments in Minimum Reserve Requirements, changes to sovereign deposit remuneration and excess liquidity. With expert insight from Christophe Rieger (Head of Commerzbank's Rates and Credit Research) and Martin Nazary (Head of Short Term Products at Deutsche Finanzag...