ICMA Podcast

Lisa Cleary, ICMA’s Senior Director, Legal Team, provides an update on the GMRA clause taxonomy and library project.

ICMA’s Deputy Chief Executive and Head of Sustainable Finance, Nicholas Pfaff, provides a sustainable finance update.

Charlotte Bellamy, an ICMA Senior Director in Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, reports on mid-cap bond markets in Europe.

Ruari Ewing, ICMA’s Senior Director in Primary Markets, comments on ESAs’ advice on the PRIIPS review.

ICMA’s Liz Callaghan, Secondary Bond Markets MiFID II Lead and Secretary to the Electronic Trading Council, reports on the appropriate EU bond market transparency regime framework.

Alex Westphal, an ICMA Director in Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, provides an update on repo and collateral market developments.

Katie Kelly, an ICMA Senior Director in Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, provides an update on the transition from LIBOR in the bond market.

This episode looks at corporate issuers of social bonds. ICMA member Nordea discusses with Telefonica and EDF (Electricité de France) why they decided to issue social bonds. They also look at investors' responses and the market's expected development.

In this episode, the ICMA Social Bond Working Group invite the Council of Europe Development Bank and external reviewer, Sustainalytics, to provide an update on the current state of the Social Bond market, as well as the main trends we can expect.

In this new edition of the podcast series, ICMA Future Leaders (IFL) representatives, Michael Sansen, Charles Tissier and Majoke Hegen speak to Niall Bohan, Director, Asset and Financial Risk Management, Directorate-General for the EU Budget, European Commission. The IFL team discuss with Niall his own career development, progress within the Commission and current role and responsibilities, how new talent is recruited from across the EU and the steps taken to improve that journey, and how teams are developed to integrate the next generation into high-performance units.