ICMA Podcast

In the latest episode, join Ruari Ewing, Katie Kelly, and Miriam Patterson, Senior Directors in the Market Practice and Regulatory Policy team at ICMA, as they discuss Primary Markets and the Bond Issuance Cycle.

In this podcast, Alessandro Canta, Head of Finance and Insurance at Enel and Steering Committee member of the ICMA Corporate Issuer Forum, discusses the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality, especially in a landscape heavily influenced by global geopolitical uncertainty. He explains how Enel is addressing these challenges by leveraging sustainable finance instruments, while also exploring opportunities to enhance innovation and accessibility in the debt capital markets.

In the latest Let's Talk Markets episode, ICMA Women’s Network, Katie Kelly, Senior Director at ICMA, and Jen Cresswell, Counsel and UK Women’s Network Steering Committee Member, dive deep into the progress and ongoing challenges for women in the bond markets.

For over 10 years, the ICMA Women’s Network (IWN) has been a global platform committed to supporting women in the bond markets. From promoting gender equality to addressing key challenges like the gender pay gap and maternity barriers, the IWN is driving real change.

Our network fosters skill development, resilience, and peer support. Whether it's through workshops on unconscious bias or discussions on career growth in a tech-driven world, we’re dedicated to helping women excel.

Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, ICMA, provides an update on secondary markets.

Andy Hill, Managing Director, ICMA, discusses the potential benefits of Europe’s two new consolidated tapes for bond markets, as well as the challenges in designing a transparency deferral regime that does not threaten market liquidity. He sheds light on ICMA’s data-driven approach to suggesting how this could be achieved, and how ICMA is encouraging the EU and UK regulators to adopt a similar methodology.

ICMA’s Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, provides an update on the latest discussions around the proposed shortening of the settlement cycle to T+1 in Europe.

Alex Tsang, Director (Asia-Pacific), ICMA, reveals international market potential for Korean Treasury Bond (KTB) trading as supported by recent market reforms.

In October 2023, the Hong Kong SFC had asked ICMA to convene a working group to explore the potential applicability of the ICMA Code of Conduct to the Hong Kong market. A year later, on 3 October 2024, ICMA published the Hong Kong Code of Conduct.

Katie Kelly, Senior Director, ICMA, discusses a recent European Commission workshop on short-term funding markets.

Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on the FCA's consultation on the new UK prospectus regime.