ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: Lessons from LIBOR transition in the bond market under English law

ICMA's Paul Richards, Managing Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, considers lessons from LIBOR transition in the bond market under English law.

The AMIC Podcast: Discover Insights on Geopolitics, Markets, and Asset Classes

Listen now to the latest podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), ICMA's dedicated forum advocating the interests of buy-side members, including asset managers, institutional investors, private banks, pension funds, and insurance companies, among others.

Returning for this episode are industry experts, Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, alongside Massimiliano Castelli, PhD MSc, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, who also serves as the Co-Chair of the AMIC Executive Committee.

In the podcast:  

The team discuss global fixed income and equity markets, which continue to rally from a low in late October 2023.  Is there a danger of a bubble?

•   What now for inflation and growth?   What responses can we expect from Central Banks.
•   At the geopolitical level, the team discuss the election forecasts in 2024. Are markets and investors are being complacent?

Learn more about AMIC: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/

If you have questions or topics you'd like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: AMIC@icmagroup.org.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: ION Markets

Tommaso Di Grazia and Ed Tyndale-Biscoe, Heads of Fixed Income and Secured Funding Product Management at ION Markets, speak about how ION’s one-stop shop for trading solutions sets it apart from other fintech vendors. They also discuss how ION's API-based technology enables clients to customize core functionality to suit their specific business needs.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: Murex

Murex Head of Securities Finance Product Management Sabine Farhat discusses shifts in the space driven by business and regulatory trends, emphasising the importance of balance sheet optimisation and increased scrutiny on collateral and liquidity. Sabine highlights the growing demand for centralisation, automation, and digitalisation, encouraged by standardisation from regulators and entities like ICMA, and how Murex addresses these evolving client needs in the changing securities finance landscape.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: Kaizen

Jonathan Lee, Senior Regulatory Reporting Specialist and Matthew Vincent, Managing Director from RegTech firm Kaizen, talk about the innovation they are seeing in compliance and regulatory reporting as the space continues to evolve. With all the challenges and complexities that firms face, Jonathan and Matthew explain the various solutions that Kaizen offers to help firms fulfil their compliance obligations, whether it be regulatory reporting assurance, shareholding disclosure, trade and communications surveillance, research management or regulatory rules management on Single Rulebook.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: Covalent Capital

Founder and CEO, Sanjay Garodia, introduces OMAS - the full lifecycle product for primary Debt Capital Markets. Hear his views on standardisation, partnerships and collaborations, data transfer and interoperability, and the impact of AI on the financial markets and the FinTech vendors that support it. He shares his experience of how smaller, nimble FinTech firms can help banks navigate internal hurdles around the adoption of new technology solutions, easing regulatory compliance headaches and the perseverance that is required to help clients achieve their goals.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: ConvEx

Mark Dalton, Managing Director, and James Eves, Senior Executive, of ConvEx discuss the emerging role of specialist independent calculation agency services. Originally set up to provide specialist advice and calculation services to the equity-linked market, ConvEx has since expanded to debt capital markets instruments (capital securities, senior bonds with make-whole calls, LIBOR transition), derivatives and workplace compensation plans.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: Origin

Raja Palaniappan, co-founder and CEO, discusses his transition from secondary market trading to revolutionising the primary issuance process of fixed income securities through digitisation. Origin, a SaaS platform, focuses on automating every stage of primary issuance to enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and manage unstructured data transfer.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: TransFICC

Steve Toland, co-founder, discusses the company's focus on providing e-trading systems for fixed income markets. Steve highlights innovations in API normalisation and automated trading tools to facilitate connectivity and efficiency for their customers in a rapidly evolving and fragmented market landscape.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: Pirum

Todd Crowther , Head of Collateral Services, and Jon Ford, Head of Fixed Income , unpack the relationship between innovation and regulatory compliance in the constantly evolving industry landscape, and share insights from Pirum’s 20-year journey. From launching its cloud-based service before ‘SaaS’ (Software as a Service) was a thing, to its current position as a preferred post-trade services vendor across securities lending, repo, and collateral management and optimisation.