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Listen now to the latest 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 the podcast:
The team discuss global fixed income and equity markets, which continue to rally from a low in late October 2023. Is there a danger of a bubble?
What now for inflation and growth? What responses can we expect from Central Banks. At the geopolitical level, the team discuss the election forecasts in 2024. Are markets and investors are being complacent?Learn more about AMIC: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/
If you have questions or topics you'd like our guests to address in future episodes, please feel free to get in contact via email: [email protected].
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Tommaso Di Grazia and Ed Tyndale-Biscoe, Heads of Fixed Income and Secured Funding Product Management at ION Markets, speak about how ION’s one-stop shop for trading solutions sets it apart from other fintech vendors. They also discuss how ION's API-based technology enables clients to customize core functionality to suit their specific business needs.
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Murex Head of Securities Finance Product Management Sabine Farhat discusses shifts in the space driven by business and regulatory trends, emphasising the importance of balance sheet optimisation and increased scrutiny on collateral and liquidity. Sabine highlights the growing demand for centralisation, automation, and digitalisation, encouraged by standardisation from regulators and entities like ICMA, and how Murex addresses these evolving client needs in the changing securities finance landscape.
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Jonathan Lee, Senior Regulatory Reporting Specialist and Matthew Vincent, Managing Director from RegTech firm Kaizen, talk about the innovation they are seeing in compliance and regulatory reporting as the space continues to evolve. With all the challenges and complexities that firms face, Jonathan and Matthew explain the various solutions that Kaizen offers to help firms fulfil their compliance obligations, whether it be regulatory reporting assurance, shareholding disclosure, trade and communications surveillance, research management or regulatory rules management on Single Rulebook.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Secondary Markets, ICMA, speaks about bond market transparency in the EU and UK.
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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.
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Andy Hill, Deputy Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides a short update on the work of ICMA’s Bond Market Liquidity Taskforce, and its initial findings and recommendations to support liquidity and resilience in the core European sovereign bond markets. The podcast is also a call for further input from ICMA members active in these markets.
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Following the release of the paper “Considerations for risk factors and disclosure in DLT bond offering documents”, co-authors Gabriel Callsen, Director, FinTech and Digitalisation; Secretary to the ICMA FinTech Advisory Committee (FinAC) and Alexander Tollast, Counsel and Member of the Global Financial Markets and Tech Groups at Clifford Chance sat down to discuss the motives behind writing the article and offered further analysis of the results of the investigation.
Read the article here: https://www.icmagroup.org/assets/Considerations-for-risk-factors-and-disclosure-in-DLT-bond-offering-documents-November-2023.pdf
For more information on DLT bonds, read the ICMA FAQ: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/fintech-and-digitalisation/distributed-ledger-technology-dlt/frequently-asked-questions-on-dlt-and-blockchain-in-bond-markets/
For further information on ICMA’s work across the Fintech & Digitalisation space, click here: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/fintech-and-digitalisation/
Get in touch if you have any questions about the podcast or the paper: [email protected]
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Ahead of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council forum in Zurich on 24th November, Oliver Tinkler, Senior Director of ICMA, speaks with Bob Parker, former Chairman of AMIC and Senior Adviser to ICMA, and Dr. Max Castelli, Managing Director and Head of Strategy & Advice at UBS Asset Management, about some of the global macroeconomic topics that will be discussed during the forum.
· As we head toward 2024 what are the major factors that could disrupt the global economy?
· What’s the outlook for the developed markets, given the backdrop of high inflation and interest rates?
Register here for free to join us in Zurich on 24th November: https://www.icmagroup.org/events/the-amic-forum-investing-for-the-longer-term-through-uncertain-markets/
Look out for our next AMIC podcast covering the markets which will be in early January 2024.
If you’d like to contribute questions for our guests to tackle, please get in touch via email at [email protected] more about AMIC: https://www.icmagroup.org/market-practice-and-regulatory-policy/asset-management/
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ICMA's Chief Executive, Bryan Pascoe introduces the Q4 2023 ICMA Quarterly Report.*This recording was generated in Speechify (the text-to-speech tool) from the original article by Bryan Pascoe
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