ICMA Podcast

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.

ICMA Future Leaders Fintech Working Group Podcast Series | Episode 3 | The challenges behind cash settlement of digital bond transactions

In this episode, IFL’s Sébastien Van Campenhoudt discusses with David Newns, Head of SDX, how securities settlement could be performed by CSDs in a DLT environment, with a specific focus on how the cash leg of the transaction can be processed.

G7 economies and global bond markets with Aditya Bhave, Bank of America Securities

Aditya Bhave, Senior US and Global Economist, Bank of America Securities, talks to Mushtaq Kapasi, ICMA Chief Representative in Asia Pacific about the outlook for growth and inflation in leading economies, the implications of inflation and monetary policy for international bond markets and what to expect in markets into 2023.

The future of credit trading

ICMA’s Head of secondary markets, Andy Hill and Ramon Baljé, Head of Fixed Income at Flow Traders discuss rapid change in the fixed income market, including electronification, the future for credit market structure, execution strategies and portfolio trading.

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (24 January 2022)

Robert Parker, senior advisor ICMA, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including the inflation and growth outlook, monetary policy developments and investors positioning.

Recovery as a springboard for change with Debora Revoltella, EIB

Debora Revoltella, Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank, presents the results of the EIB Investment Report 2021-2022,  a unique survey of 125,000 firms undertaken in summer 2021,  taking stock of post pandemic recovery and the potential opportunities to invest in the climate transition and digital innovation.