ICMA Podcast

ICMA's Miriam Patterson, Secretary, ICMA Legal and Documentation Committee discusses the FCA’s engagement process regarding the UK’s new proposed prospectus regime.

Julia Rodkiewicz, Secretary to the Regulatory Policy Committee, introduces ICMA’s advocacy priorities for the Spanish EU Presidency.

ICMA's Secretary to the Fintech Advisory Committee, Gabriel Callsen, speaks about ICMA’s latest initiatives on innovation, automation and market efficiency in bond markets.

ICMA's Andy Hill, head of ICMA Secondary Markets, provides an update on the expected outcome of the political agreement on the MiFIR Review, from the perspective of the EU’s new bond market transparency framework

ICMA's Ruari Ewing (Secretary, ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee) narrates recent developments regarding the EU Listing Act (touching on the Prospectus Regulation, pre-sounding under the Market Abuse Regulation and official listing).

ICMA’s Chief Representative for Asia Pacific, Mushtaq Kapasi, reports on recent Asia-Pacific market developments highlighted in the Quarterly Report.

This ICMA podcast with four Leading Law Firms is about the transition from legacy US dollar LIBOR to SOFR in the bond market.

The background is that panel bank US dollar LIBOR ceased publication on 30 June, as planned. The FCA as global regulator of LIBOR has provided for synthetic US dollar LIBOR to be published for legacy transactions, including bonds, until 30 September 2024. Synthetic US dollar LIBOR provides a temporary bridge for legacy bonds to be transitioned from LIBOR to SOFR, the US dollar risk-free rate.

Following an introduction from Paul Richards, Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy at ICMA, the podcast consists of the following contributions from experts in four leading law firms:

• Catherine Wade of Linklaters on fallbacks in floating rate notes under English law
  

This is an ideal mini podcast to once listen on your way to work. In the first part, Patrick Saner, Head Macro Strategy at Swiss Reinsurance, shares his insights on the global macroeconomic and financial market environment, particularly the outlook looking into the second half of 2023. Charlotte Mueller, who serves on the ICMA Future Leaders committee, also asks Patrick about career tips for young professionals – there is some valuable advice there for us all!

Getting into banking is challenging - navigating a career in finance few years down the line is harder still.

Mushtaq Kapasi, Head of ICMA Asia Pacific, talks to Riad Chowdhury, Head of Asia Pacific, MarketAxess about where and why fixed income e-trading continues to grow, how to navigate the complexity and fragmentation of Asian markets, and emerging opportunities in 2023 for trading platforms as well as investors.