ICMA Podcast

ICMA’s Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, talks about the UK FCA's finalised guidance on its anti-greenwashing rule, and some EU and Hong Kong developments in the area of anti-greenwashing.

ICMA’s Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, talks about enhancing the functioning and resilience of the commercial paper and certificates of deposit market.

ICMA's Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, takes a snapshot of the current EU and UK proposals on bond market transparency and the consolidated tape, as presented in recent consultation papers, and seeks to draw a comparison.

ICMA's Andy Hill, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, discusses ICMA’s analysis of ESMA’s proposal for a revised EU bond market transparency deferral regime and highlights the key considerations for determining an effective calibration.

ICMA’s Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, talks about the latest developments and discussions in the US and Europe related to the proposed shortening of the settlement cycle to T+1.

ICMA's Zhan Chen, Secretary to the ICMA Repo and Sustainability Task Force, discusses the 2024 Repo & Sustainability Survey conducted by ICMA, highlighting several significant findings.

ICMA's Gabriel Callsen, Senior Director for FinTech and Digitalisation, discusses ICMA’s initiatives and latest developments on FinTech and innovation in bond markets, including the UK’s Digital Securities Sandbox, the adoption of ICMA’s Bond Data Taxonomy for digital green bonds, as well as latest AI developments in capital markets.

Jinny Yan, Managing Director, Chief China Economist, Global Markets, ICBC Standard Bank talks to Ricco Zhang, Senior Director, ICMA about the latest market developments in China’s bond markets: macro outlook, trends in cross-border issuance and investments, and key developments in the CIBM repo market.

In 2024 the European Repo & Collateral Council (ERCC) – the main representative body for the cross-border repo and collateral market in Europe – celebrated 25 years of codifying best market practice and developing consensus solutions in a rapidly evolving marketplace. Join Alex Westphal (ICMA Senior Director and secretary of the ERCC) as he speaks to Godfried DeVits and Richard Comotto, key figures of this influential committee from its inception, about the repo market past and present.

Listen now to the 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 Massimiliano Castelli, PhD MSc, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, who also serves as the Co-Chair of the AMIC Executive Committee. 

This podcast was recorded on 4th June 2024. Since the recording several of the measures discussed by the presenters in the podcast have been enacted. 

In this podcast the teams discuss the outlook for inflation and growth: will inflation continue to decline? What is the risk of recession?  

Interest rates. After the rate cuts by the SNB and the Riksbank, which other Central Banks will cut rates and will the ECB/BoE diverge from the US Federal Reserve? 

What the implications for the key asset classes; fixed income, equities, currencies and commodities? 

 Should we worry about geopolitics?  What impact might the situations in China, Russia/Ukraine, Middle East, EU/UK elections and the possibility of a Trump presidency have on major markets? 

If you have questions or topics that you would like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: AMIC@icmagroup.org.  

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