ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: The role of sustainability in European commercial paper markets

Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, underscores the critical role of sustainability in the evolution of European commercial paper markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: New Practitioner’s Guide published during AGM of the Principles

Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, summarises the new "Sustainable Bonds for Nature: A Practitioners Guide" released during the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: AGM of the Principles and new best practice guidance

Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, reflects on the new and updated guidance released at the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Building a stronger European integrated market: ICMA’s vision for the Savings and Investment Union

Natalie Westerbarkey, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, outlines ICMA’s response to the European Commission’s consultation on EU capital markets integration, offering insights into key challenges and strategic recommendations.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Navigating complexity, advancing resilience: ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets

Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, reflects on ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets.

ICMA Social Bonds Podcast – an update and focus on impact reporting

Following ICMA’s Social Bonds Podcast Series in 2022/2023, this episode provides an update on the social bonds market: what types of projects issuers are funding these days, how investors are looking at social bonds, what the advantages of a portfolio approach in impact reporting are, and how ICMA’s Harmonised Framework for Impact Reporting can help. Simone Utermarck, Senior Director, Sustainable Finance at ICMA talks to Malika Takhtayeva, Sustainable Fixed Income Lead at BNPP Asset Management, Charles Smith, Senior Funding Officer at the EBRD and Felix Grote, Head of Funding & Investor Relations at Council of Europe Development Bank.

AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council

In this podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), recorded on 10th June 2025, Bob Parker and Massimiliano Castelli discussed:

• The continuing US/China tariff negotiations. What’s the impact on the Chinese economy?
• Given the US budget bill, what are the implications for the US budget deficit, the US credit rating and US Treasury yields?
• What are the key risks facing investors for the second half of 2025, and are they factored into markets at present?

AMIC is 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.

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.

Speakers:

Bob Parker is former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA.

Massimiliano Castelli, PhD MSc, is Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management and Co-Chair of the AMIC Executive Committee.

Learn more about the work of AMIC here: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/

AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council

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.

In this podcast, recorded on 7th May 2025, the team discussed:

• The evolving US tariff policy and how these policies may affect the economies of the US and its major trading partners. How might other Governments react?
• Whether the independence of the US Federal Reserve is under threat
• Implications for foreign demand for US Treasuries and whether the turmoil could persuade investors to increasingly shift allocations outside the US

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.

Learn more about AMIC: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: T+1: the impact on bond market trading

Andy Hill, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, considers the implications for bond markets of the recent wave of shortening of settlement cycles in securities markets, that began in the US and is now set to be copied in Europe and elsewhere.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Foreword to the QR: Adapt and reset

Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, reflects on the impact of the recent geopolitical activity upon the global capital markets.