ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing , Q3 2023: Sustainable finance

Valérie Guillaumin, Director Sustainable Finance, highlights the key features of the 2023 AGM and Conference of the Principles.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing , Q3 2023: UK prospectus regime

ICMA's Miriam Patterson, Secretary, ICMA Legal and Documentation Committee discusses the FCA’s engagement process regarding the UK’s new proposed prospectus regime.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing , Q3 2023: Priorities for the Spanish EU Presidency

Julia Rodkiewicz, Secretary to the Regulatory Policy Committee, introduces ICMA’s advocacy priorities for the Spanish EU Presidency.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2023: FinTech and digitalisation

ICMA's Secretary to the Fintech Advisory Committee, Gabriel Callsen, speaks about ICMA’s latest initiatives on innovation, automation and market efficiency in bond markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2023: MiFIR Review and bond market transparency

ICMA's Andy Hill, head of ICMA Secondary Markets, provides an update on the expected outcome of the political agreement on the MiFIR Review, from the perspective of the EU’s new bond market transparency framework

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2023: EU Listing Act

ICMA's Ruari Ewing (Secretary, ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee) narrates recent developments regarding the EU Listing Act (touching on the Prospectus Regulation, pre-sounding under the Market Abuse Regulation and official listing).

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2023: Asian market developments

ICMA’s Chief Representative for Asia Pacific, Mushtaq Kapasi, reports on recent Asia-Pacific market developments highlighted in the Quarterly Report.

Transition from Legacy US Dollar LIBOR in the Bond Market: ICMA Podcast with four leading law firms

This ICMA podcast with four Leading Law Firms is about the transition from legacy US dollar LIBOR to SOFR in the bond market.

The background is that panel bank US dollar LIBOR ceased publication on 30 June, as planned. The FCA as global regulator of LIBOR has provided for synthetic US dollar LIBOR to be published for legacy transactions, including bonds, until 30 September 2024. Synthetic US dollar LIBOR provides a temporary bridge for legacy bonds to be transitioned from LIBOR to SOFR, the US dollar risk-free rate.

Following an introduction from Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy at ICMA, the podcast consists of the following contributions from experts in four leading law firms:

• Catherine Wade of Linklaters on fallbacks in floating rate notes under English law
  
  
• Julia Machin of Clifford Chance on consent solicitations under English law
  
  
• Marcus Mackenzie of Freshfields on securitisations, including negative consents, under English law
  
  
• Amanda Thomas and Patrizia Pasqualini of Allen & Overy on the relationship between transition under English law, the US LIBOR Act and other foreign laws
  
  
• And Neil Pallender of Linklaters on operational issues during the transition

ICMA Future Leaders: Macro insights and career tips from Patrick Saner, Swiss Re’s Head Macro Strategy

This is an ideal mini podcast to once listen on your way to work. In the first part, Patrick Saner, Head Macro Strategy at Swiss Reinsurance, shares his insights on the global macroeconomic and financial market environment, particularly the outlook looking into the second half of 2023. Charlotte Mueller, who serves on the ICMA Future Leaders committee, also asks Patrick about career tips for young professionals – there is some valuable advice there for us all!

ICMA Future Leaders - Two Nordic bank CEOs’ honest opinions on how to tactically manage your career

Getting into banking is challenging - navigating a career in finance few years down the line is harder still.

This is why, on your behalf, International Capital Markets Association Future Leaders Nordic Steering Committee Representative, Anna Reuterskiöld took the opportunity to ask Eirik Winter, CEO BNP Paribas Group Nordic region, and Elisabeth Beskow, CEO DNB Bank ASA Sweden Branch, the tricky questions you might avoid asking.

Which areas of banking hold the best promise for career progression (and which to steer clear of), which skills will be valued as AI becomes a normal part of our work lives, is the specialist track superior or is a generalist approach a good tactic and, despite increasing talk of work-life balance in many institutions, what level of availability do our bosses expect, honestly? Can one maintain a personal life and mental health whilst pursuing a career in banking, seriously?

All the above and more is crammed into this 30 minute episode. Please enjoy, and if you have any comments or thoughts of other topics you would find helpful to hear about in the future, please feel free to reach out to Elisabeth, Eirik and Anna on LinkedIn or ICMA Future Leaders on futureleaders@icmagroup.org