Markets Plus

Businesses of all stripes are exploring opportunities to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve complex customer problems. Most companies know that AI is important, but they’re not exactly sure how it could make their operations more efficient or how to keep their business safe.

In this episode, Maria Salinas, CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, sits down with Martha de la Torre, CEO of EC Hispanic Media and co-founder of El Clasificado, to discuss a remarkable success story that highlights the perseverance and resilience of the Latino community.

In this episode of Markets Plus, Warren Estey, Head of Investment Banking at BMO Capital Markets, sits down with Eric Benedict, Co-Head, Global Equity Capital Markets and Ian Lyngen, Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, to discuss the state of the equity markets, ECM activity, Fed policy, the economic outlook and much more.

In this episode of Markets Plus, host Dr. Laurence B. Mussio, Special Advisor to the CEO, BMO Financial Group and Chair of the Long Run Institute, sits down with Professor John D. Turner, co-author of the best-selling book “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles,” to focus on connecting the present to the past through financial cycles.

Lili Gil Valletta never envisioned becoming an entrepreneur, but when she couldn’t find a company that could deliver the type of business intelligence she was looking for, she decided to build it herself. More than a decade later, Culture+ Group is one of the fastest-growing Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. 

Darrel Hackett, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group, and Martin Cabrera, CEO and Founder of Cabrera Capital, sat down to discuss Cabrera’s journey as an entrepreneur and what he thinks the Latino community can do to succeed.

In part one of our Index500 series, Eduardo Tobon, Latino Segment Head, BMO, sits down with Jorge Ferraez, Publisher of Latino Leaders Magazine, to discuss the partnership, how the Index500 came to be, and more.

In part two of our Index500 series, Alan Tannenbaum, CEO of BMO Capital Markets, sits down with Marcelo Claure, globally recognized entrepreneur, investor, and Founder & CEO of Claure Group, to discuss the remarkable achievements of both Marcelo and Latino-owned businesses.

This episode from BMO's IN Tune podcast focuses on how the AI/data center build out is contributing to a new era of electricity demand.

In our latest Markets Plus episode, host Warren Estey, Head of Investment Banking, sat down with Kevin Sherlock, Head of Leveraged Finance and Private Capital and Mike George, Head of the Financial Sponsors Group, to discuss the Leveraged Finance markets broadly and Financial Sponsor activity in particular in our Q2 investment banking podcast.

This episode dives into the benefits of energy-efficient upgrades to help homeowners make informed choices that can reduce energy costs, improve comfort and contribute to a healthier environment. Host: Ashish Arora, Regional Vice President of Specialized Sales Group, BMO. Guests: Paul Doucet, Principal Architect at Sustainable; Sarah Grant, Certified Energy Auditor, and Founder of Goldfinch Energy...

In this episode from BMO’s IN Tune Podcast, host Camilla Sutton is joined by Kelly Bania, Joel Jackson, Doug Morrow and Andrew Strelzik to discuss the takeaways from BMO’s 19th Annual Farm to Market Conference and stretches across the food and agriculture value chain.

Alan Tannenbaum, CEO of BMO Capital Markets, recently joined a panel at the Milken Global Conference 2024 in Los Angeles to discuss the M&A market, moderated by Bloomberg Television’s Romaine Bostick.

The economic outlook remains complicated. On the one hand, the U.S. and Canadian economies have exhibited remarkable resilience. On the other hand, inflation remains stubbornly high despite central banks’ best efforts, and that’s delaying the start of expected interest rate cuts. In such a fluid situation, what are corporate treasury departments to do?

Our experts share their take on how the key elements of this year’s budget may affect the economic outlook over the next 12 months, and an overview of the most significant personal and small business income tax measures announced in the budget.  

The macro environment is opaque and has many crosswinds, including the evolving Central bank policy, uneven global economic growth, geopolitical tension, and the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Yet stocks saw solid gains in the first quarter. Hear from Warren Estey in Markets Plus to learn why and what he sees developing across markets throughout the rest of the year. 

Learn why a BloombergNEF analyst is not so worried about the slowdown in global electric vehicle (EV) sales.

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for the week of March 18th, 2024.

In this episode from Sustainability Leaders, Jigar Shah, Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy, shares what younger clean energy companies should understand about LPO and how equity investors view its diligence process.

The energy transition has brought transformation to the mining sector. In this episode from Sustainability Leaders, Colin Hamilton, Commodities Analyst, BMO Capital Markets, sat down with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)’s President and CEO Rohitesh Dhawan to discuss what the industry needs to do to embrace nature-positive mining.

In this episode from BMO Equity Research Metal Matters Podcast, Colin Hamilton, Commodities Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, discusses key takeaways from the recent Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, and developing trends in the industry.

In this episode, Robert Kavcic, a Senior Economist from the BMO Economics team, joins Ben Reitzes to share his insights on the outlook for the Canadian housing market, reaction to last week’s Bank of Canada policy announcement, and his thoughts on the upcoming provincial budget season.

Michael Torrance sat down with Kevin Murphy, Chief Science State Officer at NASA, and Raghu Ganti, Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research, to discuss how data collection strategies are helping to develop and improve geospatial models, creating opportunities to better understand environmental risks. 

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for week of January 16th, 2024.

Listen to part two of our two-part series around artificial intelligence featuring Rosa van den Beemt, director of stewardship in Responsible Investment at BMO Global Asset Management, and Ebrahim Bagheri, professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.