ICMA Podcast

Nicholas Pfaff, ICMA’s Head of Sustainable Finance, reviews progress on the EU Green Bond Standard and the recent proposal that it become mandatory for all green bonds between 2025 and 2028.

ICMA's Irene Rey, AMIC Secretariat, provides key highlights of interest to AMIC members on the AIFMD and ELTIF proposals which were released by the European Commission at the end of November 2021.

ICMA’s Gabriel Callsen, Secretary, ICMA Fintech Advisory Committee, speaks about ICMA’s CDM project for repo and bonds, the recent survey results and next steps.

This LIBOR podcast follows an important milestone in the long-running story of the transition away from LIBOR and towards risk-free rates – the end of 2021. ICMA's Charlotte Bellamy, Secretary, ICMA Legal & Documentation Committee, discusses the introduction of synthetic sterling and yen LIBOR and some remaining questions for tough legacy bonds looking ahead.

ICMA's Katie Kelly, Secretary, ICMA Financial Institution Issuer Forum and ICMA Corporate Issuer Forum, presents a round-up of LIBOR-related developments in the Euro area and Switzerland.

ICMA Future Leaders (IFL) launched a Fintech working group earlier in 2021 to look into developments in Fintech including digital assets, blockchain transactions in capital markets, the evolution of securities technology, among others, to support ICMA’s overall role in this fast evolving area. As part of the IFL working group’s activities, it has organised a series of podcasts with market experts focusing on digital ledger technology or DLT.

In this first episode, IFL’s Alexander Tollast and Alastria's Juan Jimenez Zaballos discuss the potential advantages of using DLT in the capital markets, as well as the challenges to be overcome for a fully-fledged market for digital securities to develop.

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews key themes for investors in 2022 including the inflation and growth outlook, potential monetary policy divergences, and geopolitical risks.

ICMA’s President Martin Scheck speaks to David Reznik, Fixed Income Strategist at Bank Leumi, Israeli’s largest bank, about its market activities and more generally about the Israeli capital market and its market infrastructure. David discusses the main issuers, local bond practices, the main investors of Israeli debt and also provides his insights on efforts being made in the field of sustainable finance and the overall outlook for the market.

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including the inflation  outlook, the Chinese economic slowdown and main takeaways for investors following the COP26.

The end of 2021 is a key and long-awaited milestone in the LIBOR transition process. As this important date approaches, this ICMA webinar will take stock of progress in the adoption of alternative risk-free rates in the bond market and active transition of legacy bonds; consider the various legislative solutions designed to address the issue of “tough legacy” bonds; and discuss how LIBOR transition is progressing in Asia Pacific.

Speakers include:

• Paul Richards, Managing Director, Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA
• Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA
• Charlotte Bellamy, Senior Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA
• Mushtaq Kapasi, Managing Director, Chief Representative, Asia-Pacific, ICMA