ICMA Podcast

Mushtaq Kapasi, Managing Director, Chief Representative for Asia Pacific and Yanqing Jia, Associate Director, Asia Pacific speak about the third edition of the ICMA report on Asian international bond markets, which provides an updated overview of market development and analysis of market events through the end of 2022.

Georgina Jarratt, Managing Director, Head of FinTech and Digitalisation, provides an overview of ICMA's work on the automation and digitalisation of the industry as a whole, sharing insights into the strategic focus and objectives for the team over the next 1-2 years.

ICMA's Ruari Ewing, Secretary, ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee discusses the replacement of the UK’s prospectus regime.

Andy Hill, head of ICMA Secondary Markets, provides an update on the ongoing MiFIR Review from the perspective of the proposed EU consolidate tape for bonds and the related transparency framework.

Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, speaks about whether there is a need for more and better transparency in commercial paper markets.

Alex Westphal, secretary to ICMA’s ERCC, speaks about ICMA’s latest work with members to support settlement efficiency in Europe as well as our related advocacy in the context of the ongoing CSDR Refit discussions.

Ozgur Altun, Associate Director of Sustainable Finance at ICMA, talks about the ICMA’s response to the Greenwashing Call for Evidence launched by European regulators in November 2022.

Gabriel Callsen, Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, at ICMA, speaks about ICMA’s CDM project, which is now open source, automation and innovation in repo markets and ICMA’s priorities.

The final episode of our series on market integrity in sustainable finance, focuses on the asset management and the fund industry. Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance at ICMA sat down with Hortense Bioy, Global Director of Sustainability Research, Manager Research, Morningstar, Mark Manning, Strategic Policy Advisor Sustainable Finance, FCA, Patrik Karlsson, Senior Policy Offices, ESMA and Stéphane Janin, Head of Global Regulatory Developments and Public Affairs, AXA Investment Managers, to talk about greenwashing in the industry, the impact of regulation such as SFDR and what’s next on the regulators’ agenda.

The ICMA Social Bond Working Group is publishing a series of podcasts focusing on aspects of Social Bonds and their markets.

In this episode Philip Watkins Head of ESG DCM at SMBC Nikko discusses with Anna Smukowski , Senior Director, Capital Programs, Enterprise Community Loan Fund at Enterprise Community Partners and Natasha Garcha, Senior Director, Innovative Finance and Gender-Lens Investing Specialist at the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), how a focus on gender and racial equality through target populations for social bonds is being addressed in issuance.

Other podcasts in the series:
Episode 1: SBP Introduction
Episode 2: Current state of the market (July 2022)
Episode 3: Corporates