ICMA Podcast

Green bonds moving the dial on sustainable finance

ICMA’s Chief Executive Martin Scheck and Nicholas Pfaff, who leads ICMA’s work on green, social and sustainable bond markets with the Green Bond and Social Bond Principles community, discuss growth and diversification in this market over the last 4 years, its future potential and recent regulatory developments including the EU’s proposed Green Bond Standard.

Credit trading, innovation and generational change

Santiago Braje, Global head of credit trading at ING in a wide ranging discussion with Michael Sansen, Chair of the ICMA Future Leaders on the inevitability of change in credit trading, the shift in focus to technology and data science, new ways of working and the skills now required when building a team. Does radical change always come from outside the bank?

Mental health in the City

Poppy Jaman, CEO of the City Mental Health Alliance, shares her vision of creating workplaces where mental health is not stigmatised and is treated like physical health, with Leigh-Anne Cooke of ICMA. While raising awareness of mental health is important it is only the first step, CMHA works with firms to create a healthy workplace, with in-house programmes, counsellors, coaches and mental health first aid training. A personal wellbeing toolkit and knowing your stress signature can also be helpful!

The role of technology in financial markets

As ICMA prepares to launch its first FinTech course in December, course tutor Gail Rolland talks to ICMA’s Gabriel Callsen about the main drivers for electronification of financial markets, the proliferation of solutions from incumbents and start-ups and how regulators are reacting to rapid changes. Gabriel explains what ICMA is doing to help its members by encouraging adoption of common standards and best practice and mapping what is already available in primary secondary and repo markets.