ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: European bond market data report

ICMA's Simone Bruno, Associate Data Analyst, presents the key findings from ICMA's European Secondary Market Data Report for 2023.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: Bond market transparency: ICMA response to the FCA

ICMA's Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, talks about Bond Market Transparency and presents highlights about ICMA's response to the recent FCA consultation

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: Primary markets developments

ICMA's Ruari Ewing, Senior Director - Primary Markets, discusses the EU Listing Act (the EU prospectus, market abuse and listing regimes), the UK retail disclosure framework for CCIs (replacing the EU PRIIPs regime), the UK FCA anti-greenwashing rule and the EU CSDR’s cash penalties regime.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: Work experience in international capital markets

ICMA's Katie Kelly, Senior Director, highlights the importance of offering work experience to students in today's environment in the UK

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2024: Liquidity and resilience in the core European sovereign bond markets

ICMA's Andy Hill, Deputy Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, provides a crisp overview of the background to, and findings of, ICMA's new report, Liquidity and Resilience in the Core European Sovereign Bond Markets.

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.