ICMA Podcast

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.

ICMA Fintech & Digitalisation podcast series: agora

Charlie Berman, CEO and founder, shares his experience driving agora's mission to revolutionise the bond markets by leveraging distributed ledger technology to enhance efficiency and transparency. Starting with the origination process and heading towards full lifecycle management using smart contracts, agora is collaborating with stakeholders and new entrants to address longstanding inefficiencies and usher in a new era of innovation in capital markets.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q1 2024: Repo and collateral markets

Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Repo and Collateral Markets, ICMA, talks about the latest meetings and publications of ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council (ERCC).

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q1 2024: Bond market transparency in the EU and UK

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Secondary Markets, ICMA, speaks about bond market transparency in the EU and UK.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q1 2024: ICMA form of Singapore selling restrictions

Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Primary Markets, ICMA, discusses ICMA’s updated form of Singapore selling restrictions and the related Monetary Authority of Singapore Notice on Business Conduct Requirements for Corporate Finance Advisers.

ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q1 2024: Hong Kong SFC’s market soundings consultation: ICMA’s response

Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, ICMA, discusses ICMA's response to the Hong Kong SFC's market soundings consultation.