ICMA Podcast

Why diversity and inclusion isn’t just a “nice to have”

ICMA Chief Executive Bryan Pascoe, chats to Yanqing Jia from ICMA’s Hong Kong office about how improving diversity and inclusion makes good business sense and the importance of industry leadership by setting a good example. While ICMA has made progress with its D&I initiatives to recruit and support a diverse workforce,  particularly in achieving gender diversity in the group, and in its enthusiastic support for an active international  ICMA Womens Network, his view is that we need to challenge ourselves in other areas, by looking to promote greater diversity of thought and recruiting from a broader range of social backgrounds.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: Introduction

ICMA Chief Executive, Bryan Pascoe introduces the latest ICMA Quarterly Report  with an overview of market conditions and highlights contributions in the publication from Jérôme Haegli, Swiss Re;  Denis Beau at Banque de France on diversity and inclusion; and Habib Motani from Clifford Chance on 30 years of the GMRA.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: Diversity and inclusion

ICMA’s Katie Kelly on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the finance industry with specific reference to initiatives in this area at the Banque de France.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: The transition from LIBOR in the bond market: progress and remaining steps

In the ICMA Quarterly Report, the Quarterly Assessment is about the transition away from LIBOR to risk-free rates in the bond market. The Quarterly Assessment is introduced in this podcast by ICMA's Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2022: CSDR settlement discipline

ICMA’s Andy Hill, Secretary, ICMA Secondary Market Practices Committee, updates on the European Commission’s proposal for a revised mandatory buy-in framework and next steps.

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.