ICMA Podcast

Todd Crowther , Head of Collateral Services, and Jon Ford, Head of Fixed Income , unpack the relationship between innovation and regulatory compliance in the constantly evolving industry landscape, and share insights from Pirum’s 20-year journey. From launching its cloud-based service before ‘SaaS’ (Software as a Service) was a thing, to its current position as a preferred post-trade services vendor across securities lending, repo, and collateral management and optimisation.

Charlie Berman, CEO and founder, shares his experience driving agora's mission to revolutionise the bond markets by leveraging distributed ledger technology to enhance efficiency and transparency. Starting with the origination process and heading towards full lifecycle management using smart contracts, agora is collaborating with stakeholders and new entrants to address longstanding inefficiencies and usher in a new era of innovation in capital markets.

Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Repo and Collateral Markets, ICMA, talks about the latest meetings and publications of ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC).

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Secondary Markets, ICMA, speaks about bond market transparency in the EU and UK.

Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Primary Markets, ICMA, discusses ICMA’s updated form of Singapore selling restrictions and the related Monetary Authority of Singapore Notice on Business Conduct Requirements for Corporate Finance Advisers.

Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, ICMA, discusses ICMA's response to the Hong Kong SFC's market soundings consultation.

Andy Hill, Deputy Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides a short update on the work of ICMA’s Bond Market Liquidity Taskforce, and its initial findings and recommendations to support liquidity and resilience in the core European sovereign bond markets. The podcast is also a call for further input from ICMA members active in these markets.

Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy at ICMA, discusses stress and resilience in international capital markets.

Following the release of the paper “Considerations for risk factors and disclosure in DLT bond offering documents”, co-authors Gabriel Callsen, Director, FinTech and Digitalisation; Secretary to the ICMA FinTech Advisory Committee (FinAC) and Alexander Tollast, Counsel and Member of the Global Financial Markets and Tech Groups at Clifford Chance sat down to discuss the motives behind writing the article and offered further analysis of the results of the investigation.

Read the article here: https://www.icmagroup.org/assets/Considerations-for-risk-factors-and-disclosure-in-DLT-bond-offering-documents-November-2023.pdf

For more information on DLT bonds, read the ICMA FAQ: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/fintech-and-digitalisation/distributed-ledger-technology-dlt/frequently-asked-questions-on-dlt-and-blockchain-in-bond-markets/

For further information on ICMA’s work across the Fintech & Digitalisation space, click here: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/fintech-and-digitalisation/

Get in touch if you have any questions about the podcast or the paper: info@icmagroup.org

Ahead of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council forum in Zurich on 24th November, Oliver Tinkler, Senior Director of ICMA, speaks with Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, and Dr. Max Castelli, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, about some of the global macroeconomic topics that will be discussed during the forum.

· As we head toward 2024 what are the major factors that could disrupt the global economy?

· What’s the outlook for the developed markets, given the backdrop of high inflation and interest rates?

Register here for free to join us in Zurich on 24th November: https://www.icmagroup.org/events/the-amic-forum-investing-for-the-longer-term-through-uncertain-markets/

Look out for our next AMIC podcast covering the markets which will be in early January 2024.

If you’d like to contribute questions for our guests to tackle, please get in touch via email at AMIC@icmagroup.org

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