ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: Ensuring the usability of the EU Taxonomy

ICMA’s, Nicholas Pfaff, Head of Sustainable Finance, summarises in this podcast the key points and recommendations from ICMA’s recent paper on “Ensuring the usability of the EU Taxonomy” also covered in a feature in this edition of the Quarterly Report.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: EU Listing Act consultation and UK Prospectus Regulation review outcome

ICMA's Charlotte Bellamy, Secretary to the ICMA Legal & Documentation Committee, provides an update on the current reviews of the Prospectus Regulations in the EU and UK focusing on the key issues for ICMA primary markets members.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: UK Consumer Duty consultation

ICMA’s Ruari Ewing, Secretary, ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee, talks about ICMA’s response to the FCA’s consultation on a new UK consumer duty, which welcomed the FCA’s intention to exempt both vanilla retail bonds and institutional bonds from the scope of the new duty but raised concerns about the insufficiently narrow calibration of the drafting of these proposed exemptions.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: MiFID II bond market transparency regime

Towards the end of 2021, the European Commission published its proposed amendments to MiFIR as part of the overall CMU package announcements. However, ICMA has suggested modifications to some of the European Commission’s proposals. ICMA's Liz Callaghan, Secretary, ICMA Electronic Trading Council, speaks about these recommendations concern pre- and post-trade transparency as well as the analysis required for a successful bond consolidated tape, the vehicle for transparency, to emerge.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: Settlement efficiency

On 1 February 2022, on the day of the go-live of CSDR cash penalties, ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC) released its discussion paper, Optimising Settlement Efficiency, aiming to focus attention on key opportunities to strengthen settlement efficiency in Europe. ICMA's Alex Westphal, Secretary to the ERCC, provides some background to the initiative and briefly walks through the key take aways from the paper and next steps.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: Common Domain Model: Phase 2

ICMA’s Gabriel Callsen, Secretary, ICMA Fintech Advisory Committee, speaks about phase 2 of the Common Domain Model (CDM), which seeks to promote electronification of repo markets, notably open, floating-rate and evergreen repos, and how to become involved in this cross-industry initiative.

Obstacles to creating a successful repo market

Repo expert and author of ICMA’s Guide to Best Practice in European Repo Markets, Richard Comotto, draws on his experience to highlight the challenges faced by frontier markets in trying to build successful new repo markets, including lack of an active interbank money market, illiquid collateral and legal obstacles.

ICMA Future Leaders Fintech Working Group Podcast Series | Episode 4 | The history and future of blockchain bonds

IFL's Alexander Tollast discusses with Jean-Marc Stenger, CEO of FORGE, how innovation and digitalization are changing capital markets, picking out landmark transactions from the past and looking at where we are today and what might change going forward. 

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (23 February 2022)

Robert Parker, Senior Adviser to ICMA and ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including inflationary pressures, the growing geopolitical tensions and the outlook for growth.

The Principles: The foundations of the sustainable bond market (podcast in Mandarin)

The Green Bond Principles (GBP), Social Bond Principles (SBP), Sustainability Bond Guidelines (SBG), and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBP) are the global standard for sustainable bonds. In this podcast, delivered in Mandarin,  ICMA’s Ricco Zhang discusses the Principles, international best market practices and the current onshore and offshore sustainable bond markets in China.