ICMA Podcast

ICMA's Ruari Ewing,Senior Director - Primary Markets, ICMA, discusses the EU Listing Act (the EU prospectus, market abuse and listing regimes), the UK retail disclosure framework for CCIs (replacing the EU PRIIPs regime), the UK FCA anti-greenwashing rule and the EU CSDR’s cash penalties regime.

ICMA's Katie Kelly, Senior Director, ICMA, highlights the importance of offering work experience to students in today's environment in the UK

ICMA's Andy Hill, Deputy Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides a crisp overview of the background to, and findings of, ICMA's new report, Liquidity and Resilience in the Core European Sovereign Bond Markets.

ICMA's Paul Richards, Managing Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, considers lessons from LIBOR transition in the bond market under English law.

Listen now to the latest 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...

Tommaso Di Grazia and Ed Tyndale-Biscoe, Heads of Fixed Income and Secured Funding Product Management at ION Markets, speak about how ION’s one-stop shop for trading solutions sets it apart from other fintech vendors. They also discuss how ION's API-based technology enables clients to customize core functionality to suit their specific business needs.

In this podcast, Murex Head of Securities Finance Product Management Sabine Farhat discusses shifts in the space driven by business and regulatory trends, emphasising the importance of balance sheet optimisation and increased scrutiny on collateral and liquidity. Sabine highlights the growing demand for centralisation, automation, and digitalisation, encouraged by standardisation from regulators a...

Jonathan Lee and Matthew Vincent from RegTech firm Kaizen, talk to ICMA’s Oliver Tinkler on the innovation we are seeing in compliance and regulatory reporting as the space continues to evolve. With all the challenges and complexities that firms face, Jonathan and Matthew explain the various solutions that Kaizen offers to help firms fulfil their compliance obligations, whether it be regulatory re...

Founder and CEO, Sanjay Garodia, introduces OMAS - the full lifecycle product for primary Debt Capital Markets. Hear his views on standardisation, partnerships and collaborations, data transfer and interoperability, and the impact of AI on the financial markets and the FinTech vendors that support it. He shares his experience of how smaller, nimble FinTech firms can help banks navigate internal hu...

In this interview Mark Dalton, Managing Director and James Eves, Senior Executive of ConvEx discuss the emerging role of specialist independent calculation agency services. Originally set up to provide specialist advice and calculation services to the equity-linked market, ConvEx has since expanded to debt capital markets instruments (capital securities, senior bonds with make-whole calls, LIBOR t...

Charlie Berman, CEO and founder, shares his experience driving agora's mission to revolutionise the bond markets by leveraging distributed ledger technology to enhance efficiency and transparency. Starting with the origination process and heading towards full lifecycle management using smart contracts, agora is collaborating with stakeholders and new entrants to address longstanding inefficiencies...

Steve Toland, co-founder, discusses the company's focus on providing e-trading systems for fixed income markets. Steve highlights innovations in API normalisation and automated trading tools to facilitate connectivity and efficiency for their customers in a rapidly evolving and fragmented market landscape.

Todd Crowther, Head of Fixed Income, and Jon Ford, Head of Collateral Services, unpack the relationship between innovation and regulatory compliance in the constantly evolving industry landscape, and share insights from Pirum’s 20-year journey, from launching its cloud-based service before ‘SaaS’ (Software as a Service) was a thing, to its current position.

Charlie Berman, CEO and founder, shares his experience driving agora's mission to revolutionise the bond markets by leveraging distributed ledger technology to enhance efficiency and transparency. Starting with the origination process and heading towards full lifecycle management using smart contracts, agora is collaborating with stakeholders and new entrants to address longstanding inefficiencies...

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

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy at ICMA, speaks about Bond Market transparency in the EU and UK.

ICMA's Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Primary Markets, discusses ICMA’s updated form of Singapore selling restrictions and the related Monetary Authority of Singapore Notice on Business Conduct Requirements for Corporate Finance Advisers.

ICMA's Miriam Patterson, Secretary, ICMA Legal and Documentation Committee discusses ICMA's response to the Hong Kong SFC's market soundings consultation.

ICMA's Andy Hill, Head of ICMA Secondary Markets provides a short update on the work of ICMA’s Bond Marlet Liquidity Taskforce, and its initial findings and recommendations to support liquidity and resilience in the core European sovereign bond markets. The podcast is also a call for further input from ICMA members active in these markets.

ICMA's Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy at ICMA, discusses about stress and resilience in international capital markets

Following the release of the paper “Considerations for risk factors and disclosure in DLT bond offering documents”, co-authors Gabriel Callsen, Director, FinTech and Digitalisation; Secretary to the ICMA FinTech Advisory Committee (FinAC) and Alexander Tollast, Counsel and Member of the Global Financial Markets and Tech Groups at Clifford Chance sat down to discuss the motives behind writing the a...

Ahead of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council forum in Zurich on 24th November , Oliver Tinkler, Senior Director of ICMA, speaks with Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, and Dr. Max Castelli, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, about some of the global macroeconomic topics that will be discussed during the forum. · As we...

ICMA's Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Primary Markets, discusses ICMA’s feedback on the MiFID investor protection and PRIIPs aspects of the EU’s retail investment strategy proposals.

ICMA's Chief Executive, Bryan Pascoe introduces the Q4 2023 ICMA Quarterly Report.

ICMA's Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy at ICMA, discusses about synthetic US dollar LIBOR: the remaining task in the bond market.