ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Final post-trade referral framework for bonds: ICMA letter to ESMA and the EC

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on ESMA's final post-trade referral for bonds and the ICMA letter to ESMA and the European Commission.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Repo best practice

Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talks about ICMA's repo and collateral market work, focusing specifically on recent publications in this field, including the latest European Repo Market Survey and the ERCC's Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Leverage in NBFI: ICMA AMIC response to the FSB

Irene Rey, Associate Director, MPRP, ICMA, discusses AMIC's response to the Financial Stability Board’s consultation report on addressing financial stability risks arising from leverage in Non-Bank Financial Intermediation.

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 26th March 2025, the team discussed:

· Given the deep twin sell off in the US dollar and equities, is the American exceptionalism trade over?

· Following the dramatic changes to German fiscal policy announced during early March. Is this the herald of a European Renaissance?

· “What’s progress on the Capital Markets Union and the Savings and Investment Union? Is Europe finally going to deliver on financial market integration?”

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/

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 25th February 2025, the team discussed:

• Following the general election result in Germany, what is the outlook for the German economy, and what is the knock-on effect for the Eurozone and the ECB .
• Update on US economic policy under the new Trump administration. Government and Fed policy.
• What’s changed in China?
• In the near term what do you see as the major risk factors to capital markets, and what about potential market volatility.

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 Q1 2025: Reflections on 10 years of the ICMA Women’s Network

ICMA's CEO, Bryan Pascoe and Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talk about the ICMA Women's Network, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Fixed income ETFs: growth, innovation, and impact on bond markets

Natalie Westerbarkey, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA, explores the growth, innovation, and impact on bond markets of fixed income ETFs.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: The functioning of the EU securitisation framework

Nicolette Moser, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on ICMA's response to the recent EU Commission's Targeted Consultation on the functioning of the EU Securitisation Framework.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Assessing the adequacy of macroprudential policies for NBFI

Irene Rey, Associate Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, discusses the adequacy of macroprudential policies for NBFI.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: The push and pull for central clearing in the sovereign bond markets

Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an report on the push and pull for central clearing in the sovereign bond markets.