ICMA Podcast

FinTech, technology risks and the COVID-19 crisis

ICMA speaks to Douglas Arner, the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong and co-author of the paper Digital Finance & the COVID-19 Crisis. They discuss the different roles of the financial system in the COVID-19 crisis compared with the 2008 global financial crisis, including operations and technology, resilience of financial institutions and infrastructures, and the outlook for how FinTech may change the capital markets.

Electronic signings - an English law perspective in the time of COVID-19

ICMA has teamed up with Clifford Chance to make available a Clifford Chance podcast on electronic signings from an English law perspective in the time of COVID-19.

COVID-19: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council weekly market update (6 May 2020)

Robert Parker, Chairman of ICMA Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the last week in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the meaning of the German Constitutional Court ruling for the ECB asset purchase programs, the state of the economic recovery in Asia and the resurgence of the Brexit topic for investors.

COVID-19: ICMA Future Leaders legal working group perspectives

Capital markets lawyers and ICMA Future Leaders legal working group members Tom Capon (Chair of the working group) and Moeen Qayum speak with Charlotte Bellamy of ICMA to delve further into practical legal implications for European primary debt capital markets of the current COVID-19 pandemic, following on from last week’s podcast with Amanda Thomas and Jen Cresswell of A&O.

State of the European Repo Market

ICMA Chief Executive Martin Scheck and Andy Hill, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA discuss how the European repo market has mostly held up well during the market turbulence stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, this has not been without some strains. In particular, as the demand for repo has increased, banks’ capacity to intermediate has remained constrained. Meanwhile, the market has had to deal with the disruption of operating remotely, with implications for both the supply of collateral and operational efficiency.

New EU sustainability disclosure obligations will impact large firms and asset managers

Nicholas Pfaff, Head of Sustainable Finance at ICMA speaks with colleagues, Simone Utermarck, Director, Sustainable Finance and Arthur Carabia, Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, about our latest publication explaining how new and amended EU legislation is introducing sustainability and ESG related disclosure requirements impacting all participants in the European capital markets. This is arguably leading to what we are referring to as an “EU sustainability disclosure regime”. Our publication seeks to provide the market with an initial comprehensive and practical overview of these developments.