ICMA Podcast

In this episode of ICMA Education & Training’s latest vlog “Careers in Capital Markets”, Tim Skeet (Bank of China; ICMA UK Regional Chair) and Alex Malitsky (Director - Fixed Income Syndicate & Origination, TD Securities) discuss careers in finance.

In this episode of ICMA Education & Training’s latest vlog “Rethinking Finance Infrastructure”, ICMA’s Georgina Jarratt (Managing Director, Head of Fintech & Digitalisation) speaks to Armin Peter, former Global Head of Debt Syndicate at UBS about the huge impact of technology on the capital markets.

Listen now to the podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), ICMA's dedicated forum advocating the interests of buy-side members, including asset managers, institutional investors, private banks, pension funds, and insurance companies, among others. Returning for this episode are industry experts, Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, alongside Massim...

ICMA's CEO, Bryan Pascoe,shares a large part of the content from his speech at the last AGM.

ICMA's Paul Richards, Senior Adviser, assesses the debate about EU policy on Capital Markets Union.

ICMA’s Valérie Guillaumin, Director, Sustainable Finance, talks about the new releases of the Principles: the Green Enabling Projects Guidance and the Guidelines for Sustainability-Linked Loans financing Bonds.

ICMA’s Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, MPRP, talks about the UK FCA's finalised guidance on its anti-greenwashing rule, and some EU and Hong Kong developments in the area of anti-greenwashing.

ICMA’s Katie Kelly, Senior Director, MPRP, talks about enhancing the functioning and resilience of the commercial paper and certificates of deposit market.

ICMA's Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, takes a snapshot at the current EU and UK proposals on bond market transparency and the consolidated tape, as presented in recent consultation papers, and seeks to draw a comparison.

ICMA's Andy Hill, Deputy Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, discusses ICMA’s analysis of ESMA’s proposal for a revised EU bond market transparency deferral regime and highlights the key considerations for determining an effective calibration.

ICMA’s Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, talks about the latest developments and discussions in the US and Europe related to the proposed shortening of the settlement cycle to T+1.

ICMA's Zhan Chen, Secretary to the ICMA Repo and Sustainability Task Force, discusses the 2024 Repo & Sustainability Survey conducted by ICMA, highlighting several significant findings.

ICMA's Gabriel Callsen, Senior Director for FinTech and Digitalisation, discusses ICMA’s initiatives and latest developments on FinTech and innovation in bond markets, including the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox, the adoption of ICMA’s Bond Data Taxonomy for digital green bonds, as well as latest AI developments in capital markets.

Jinny Yan, Managing Director, Chief China Economist, Global Markets, ICBC Standard Bank talks to Ricco Zhang, Senior Director, ICMA about the latest market developments in China’s bond markets: macro outlook, trends in cross-border issuance and investments, and key developments in the CIBM repo market.

In 2024 the European Repo & Collateral Council (ERCC) – the main representative body for the cross-border repo and collateral market in Europe – celebrated 25 years of codifying best market practice and developing consensus solutions in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Join Alex Westphal (ICMA Senior Director and secretary of the ERCC) as he speaks to Godfried DeVits and Richard Comotto, key fi...

Listen now to the podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), ICMA's dedicated forum advocating the interests of buy-side members, including asset managers, institutional investors, private banks, pension funds, and insurance companies, among others.  Returning for this episode are industry experts, Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, alongside Massi...

Eila Kreivi - former Head of Capital Markets at European Investment Bank and current ICMA board member - chats to Simone Utermarck (Senior Director, ICMA Sustainable Finance), looking back at 10 years of ICMA's involvement as secretariat of the Principles, the frameworks to which 97% of the world's sustainable bonds are aligned.

ICMA Chief Executive Bryan Pascoe is interviewed by Marc Granville (ICMA Head of Education & Training) about his career journey to date.

TreasurySpring’s Henry Adams, Chief Product Officer, discusses the unique features of their fintech solution, emphasising the innovative approach to unlocking trapped liquidity from outside capital markets through their proprietary instrument, the Fixed Term Fund (FTF). He discusses the inspiration behind the development of TreasurySpring, highlighting its mission to simplify complex repo transact...

In this podcast, Robert Koller and Fredrik Creutz, co-founders of NowCM, discuss their company’s innovative approach to capital markets. They outline NowCM's three main focuses: digitalising the bond issuance process, operating a regulated issuance vehicle in Luxembourg, and managing a regulated marketplace for primary issuance in Paris. Key topics include significant efficiency improvements in th...

The series features conversations with ICMA - International Capital Market Association 's fintech member firms, who are driving innovation across the capital market landscape.  We ask each firm about their core innovation; what inspired them to develop their solution; what they see as emerging trends in their areas of the capital market; and what propels them forward. This conversation is with And...

ICMA's Nicolette Moser, Senior Director, ICMA, provides an overview of recent policy recommendations by FSB and IOSCO relating to open-ended funds.

ICMA’s Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Repo and Collateral markets, ICMA, talks about the latest meetings and discussions of ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC).

ICMA's Simone Bruno, Associate Data Analyst, ICMA, presents the key findings from ICMA's European Secondary Market Data Report for 2023.

ICMA's Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talks about Bond Market Transparency and presents highlights about ICMA's response to the recent FCA consultation