The UK Government and authorities issued a flurry of consultations impacting primary bond market regulation this summer. In this podcast, ICMA’s Ruari Ewing and Charlotte Bellamy discuss the consultations and ICMA members’ key concerns in this area.

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Primary bond markets regulation post-Brexit - what’s the UK planning?

ICMA’s President Martin Scheck speaks to Leslie Maasdorp, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank, about the rationale and purpose behind the bank, its funding model and governance structure and their focus on infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the BRICS countries and other emerging economies. Leslie also discusses the NDB’s overall environmental, social and sustainability goals, along with their pandemic support and sustainable bond issue.

The New Development Bank - building a sustainable future

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including Evergrande debt situation and potential contagion risk, the Fed economic outlook and review of  their monetary policy guidance, as well as the German election results.

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (27 September 2021)

ICMA’s Mushtaq Kapasi speaks with Pratima Divgi, CDP Regional Director, on the topic of environmental disclosure & impact reporting. Pratima provides a brief introduction on CDP’s role in sustainable finance and discusses how CDP relates to other disclosure regimes, the methodology for investor benchmarking, and how sustainability reporting may continue to evolve in the future.

Environmental Disclosure & Impact Reporting

Rebekah Bray of ICMA Women’s Network Nordic region speaks with Alexis Cousins of SEB’s Debt Capital Markets team to discuss workplace inequality. As a PhD candidate at the Stockholm School of Economics, Alexis’ research focuses on workplace inequality and the struggles of under-represented populations. She discusses general initiatives in the financial sector to address this issue, alongside a new programme at SEB to facilitate diversity and opportunities for under-represented talent.

Addressing workplace inequality

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks while considering geopolitical risks and potential divergence in monetary policies ahead of central banks' September meetings.

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (27 August 2021)

ICMA’s Mushtaq Kapasi speaks with Zalina Shamsudin, General Manager, Capital Markets Malaysia, about green and social sukuk in the context of the global sustainable and Islamic capital markets. The discussion covers how Islamic finance principles interact with conventional sustainable finance, the investor base for green sukuk, and Malaysia’s efforts to grow the market and facilitate further positive investment in south-east Asia.

Sustainable sukuk

Robert Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including the Chinese equities sell-off, the pause in the reflation trade, and the ECB policy guidance.

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (27 July 2021)

ICMA’s Mushtaq Kapasi speaks with Suzanne Johnson, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Ocean Business with UN Global Compact about business opportunities in sustainable oceans and the role that capital markets can play in scaling up ocean based solutions to meet the needs of our growing world. Suzanne discusses the concept of  ‘blue bonds’ and how they relate to green and sustainability-linked bonds, the risks and opportunities for commercial investment in sustainable oceans, and how the bond markets can facilitate investment.

Capital markets contributing to a healthier and more productive ocean

ICMA’s Liz Callaghan discusses trends in corporate bond markets in the USA and in Europe with BondCliq CEO Chris White and Gabriele Frediani who heads business development for Bondcliq in Europe,  highlighting similarities and the differences between the two markets. They also reflect on the need for a balanced approach for pre-trade transparency and data ownership and the lessons learned from Covid regarding market mechanics.

Secondary corporate bond markets in the US and Europe

In this podcast, Nicholas Pfaff (ICMA’s Head of Sustainable Finance) discusses the main highlights of the ICMA’s recent publication ‘Overview and Recommendations of Sustainable Finance Taxonomies’ with ICMA colleagues Ozgur Altun and Yanqing Jia. They cover what taxonomies mean for sustainable finance, approaches taken by major initiatives such as by the EU and China, the interplay of taxonomies with the Green Bond Principles, existing guidance as well as recommended success criteria for new taxonomy initiatives from other jurisdictions.

Taxonomies in sustainable finance – why are they important?

Bob Parker, Chair of ICMA’s Asset Management and Investors Council, reviews the market events of the past weeks, including the ongoing rise of inflation, Central Banks monetary policies as well as negative real bond yields.    

Monthly Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council (28 June 2021)

Simone Utermarck, Director, Sustainable Finance at ICMA talks to Angel Tejada, Global Head of Green and Sustainable Bonds at BBVA about developments in the sustainable finance market in Latin America, particularly the sustainable bond market, including which countries are issuing, who the issuers are and the popularity of sustainability-linked bond issuance in the region. They also discuss the status of transition finance in LATAM.

Sustainable finance in Latin America with BBVA

Welcome to episode 5 of the Human Side of Finance podcast series, brought to you by ICMA Future Leaders and Humans in Finance. In this podcast we interview Dorrit Lowsen from Change Finance and Oren Shai from Enlivened Leadership Lab to explore the important conversation on Rebalancing Excessive Masculinity in Finance.      Episode notes: Polarity-related resources: https://oren.is/#dss Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems by Barry Johnson Shakti Leadership Nilima Bhat and Raj Sisodia 

The Human Side of Finance | Episode 5 | Rebalancing Excess Masculinity in Finance

Welcome to episode 4 of the Human Side of Finance podcast series, brought to you by Humans in Finance and ICMA Future Leaders. In this podcast we interview thought leaders on workplace culture and design: Annie Coleman and Kursty Groves. Annie Coleman is Group Head of People & Culture at UniCredit, former Global Head of Culture at UBS Investment Bank, and has also held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, GAM investments and the London Stock Exchange. Kursty Groves is a workplace strategist, author on workplace design, and founder of Shape Work Life, a consulting firm that specialises in co-creating the best places to work. Episode notes: I Wish I Worked There!, Kursty Groves How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation, Harvard Business Review, by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi Rungway: an anonymous workplace advice platform Designing Your Own Workspace Improves Health, Happiness and Productivity, University of Exeter research, by Dr Craig Knight The Office Chronicles podcast series, Kursty Groves

Humanising the office

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