ICMA Podcast

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU Savings and Investment Union: innovation and tokenisation

Gabriel Callsen, Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, gives an update on ICMA’s engagement with innovation and tokenisation in capital markets, focusing on contributions to the European Commission’s Savings and Investment Union consultation.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU Savings and Investment Union: issuance aspects (including PRIIPs)

Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, narrates ICMA’s response to the European Commission’s SIU consultation questions on issuance (including PRIIPs).

 

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: ICMA Primary Market Innovation Project

Armin Peter, ICMA Consultant, speaks about the work of ICMA’s Primary Market Innovation Project, which engaged over 150 stakeholders to chart a path for evolutionary change in capital markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Ensuring financial stability in a time of tariffs

Paul Richards, Senior Advisor, considers the international authorities’ assessment of the financial stability risks arising from the US Administration’s policy of reciprocal tariffs and the impact on capital markets US Administration’s policy of reciprocal tariffs and the impact on capital markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: The role of sustainability in European commercial paper markets

Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, underscores the critical role of sustainability in the evolution of European commercial paper markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: New Practitioner’s Guide published during AGM of the Principles

Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, summarises the new "Sustainable Bonds for Nature: A Practitioners Guide" released during the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: AGM of the Principles and new best practice guidance

Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, reflects on the new and updated guidance released at the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Building a stronger European integrated market: ICMA’s vision for the Savings and Investment Union

Natalie Westerbarkey, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, outlines ICMA’s response to the European Commission’s consultation on EU capital markets integration, offering insights into key challenges and strategic recommendations.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Navigating complexity, advancing resilience: ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets

Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, reflects on ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets.

ICMA Social Bonds Podcast – an update and focus on impact reporting

Following ICMA’s Social Bonds Podcast Series in 2022/2023, this episode provides an update on the social bonds market: what types of projects issuers are funding these days, how investors are looking at social bonds, what the advantages of a portfolio approach in impact reporting are, and how ICMA’s Harmonised Framework for Impact Reporting can help. Simone Utermarck, Senior Director, Sustainable Finance at ICMA talks to Malika Takhtayeva, Sustainable Fixed Income Lead at BNPP Asset Management, Charles Smith, Senior Funding Officer at the EBRD and Felix Grote, Head of Funding & Investor Relations at Council of Europe Development Bank.