ICMA Podcast

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. 

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Luca Cazzulani, UniCredit's Co-Head of Strategy Research in conversation with Bryan Pascoe, ICMA Chief Executive, gives his views on the outlook for growth, inflation and monetary policy in major economies over the next year, with his expectations for returns from fixed income assets, including sovereign bonds.

Tom Porcelli, Chief U.S. Economist and Peter Schaffrik, Chief European Macro Strategist, at  RBC Capital Markets share their insights on prospects for economic growth in the USA, Europe and the UK over the next two years. Comparing inflationary pressures in different markets, they discuss potential reactions from central banks in terms of rate hikes and tapering.