ICMA Podcast

Emma Thomas, Associate, FinTech and Digitalisation, ICMA, comments on the efforts by financial market regulators to adapt to growth in the usage of AI within Financial services

Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, comments on the response to the FCA's consultation paper that proposed changes to the public offers and admissions to trading regime (POATRS), the product governance regime and the UK Listing Rules.

Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, discusses the use of asymmetric jurisdiction clauses in the international debt capital markets following the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Lastre SpA v. Agora SARL case.

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on ESMA's final post-trade referral for bonds and the ICMA letter to ESMA and the European Commission.

Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talks about ICMA's repo and collateral market work, focusing specifically on recent publications in this field, including the latest European Repo Market Survey and the ERCC's Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market.

Irene Rey, Associate Director, MPRP, ICMA, discusses AMIC's response to the Financial Stability Board’s consultation report on addressing financial stability risks arising from leverage in Non-Bank Financial Intermediation.

Listen now to the 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 this podcast, recorded on 26th March 2025, the team discussed:

· Given the deep twin sell off in the US dollar and equities, is the American exceptionalism trade over?

· Following the dramatic changes to German fiscal policy announced during early March. Is this the herald of a European Renaissance?

· “What’s progress on the Capital Markets Union and the Savings and Investment Union? Is Europe finally going to deliver on financial market integration?”

If you have questions or topics that you would like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: [email protected].

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

Listen now to the 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 this podcast, recorded on 25th February 2025, the team discussed:

If you have questions or topics that you would like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: [email protected].

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

ICMA's CEO, Bryan Pascoe and Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talk about the ICMA Women's Network, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025.

Natalie Westerbarkey, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA, explores the growth, innovation, and impact on bond markets of fixed income ETFs.