ICMA Podcast

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA's Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the last week in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the French-German proposal for a €500 billion EU Recovery fund, the state of bond, equity and oil markets, and the risk of a second wave of contagion.

ICMA speaks to Richard Mazzochi and Minny Siu, Partners at King & Wood Mallesons about China’s new Securities Law. From the perspective of foreign issuers and investors, they discuss the background to the latest amendments and most significant changes, including the introduction of the registration system, as well as the further internationalisation of the Chinese domestic market.

With sustainability having become a mainstream consideration for the financial sector, there is a need for convergence on terminology among market participants and wider stakeholders. Nicholas Pfaff, Managing Director and Head of ICMA Sustainable Finance speaks with colleagues Simone Utermarck, Director and Ozgur Altun, Associate about our latest paper proposing high-level definitions building on current market usage and existing official sector terminology for the most commonly used terms in the sustainable finance field.

In the second episode considering questions of ethics in financial markets, bond market veteran and author Chris O'Malley examines the behaviour of companies, after looking at the ethical dilemmas facing individuals in the financial market.

Robert Parker, Chairman of ICMA Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the last week in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on lockdown easing measures, the state of the economic recovery and debt restructuring of some emerging countries.

Bond market veteran and author Chris O'Malley talks about the behaviour of individuals when faced with ethical dilemmas both socially and in the workplace. Looking at some 21st Century financial market scandals, he reflects on what drives 'good' people do bad things and explains how ethical and moral principles are essentially different  from compliance.

ICMA speaks to Douglas Arner, the Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong and co-author of the paper Digital Finance & the COVID-19 Crisis. They discuss the different roles of the financial system in the COVID-19 crisis compared with the 2008 global financial crisis, including operations and technology, resilience of financial institutions and infrastructures, and the outlook for how FinTech may change the capital markets.

ICMA has teamed up with Clifford Chance to make available a Clifford Chance podcast on electronic signings from an English law perspective in the time of COVID-19.

Robert Parker, Chairman of ICMA Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the last week in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the meaning of the German Constitutional Court ruling for the ECB asset purchase programs, the state of the economic recovery in Asia and the resurgence of the Brexit topic for investors.

Capital markets lawyers and ICMA Future Leaders legal working group members Tom Capon (Chair of the working group) and Moeen Qayum speak with Charlotte Bellamy of ICMA to delve further into practical legal implications for European primary debt capital markets of the current COVID-19 pandemic, following on from last week’s podcast with Amanda Thomas and Jen Cresswell of A&O.