GFF Podcast

This episode our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively SecLending chat about Clearstream's innovations in the field of Triparty Collateral management with Jonathan Lombardo (Chairman, ISLA) and Marc Poinsignon (Product Manager & Business Development of Triparty Agency Services). With the insights of industry expert Jonathan Lombardo, we discuss the increasingly important role of Triparty agents in the Securities Lending market, with a particular focus o...

09-24

37:26

This episode our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively chat about Clearstream's banking products and services with the banking products Head of Product Management Défi Kimenga and VP of Business and Product Development José Manoka. We go in depth with the way Clearstream has developed a wide range of business enabling tools for market participants to manage their balance sheets and optimise their cash strategies. We explore the innovative credit, settlement...

10-29

34:36

In this episode we are joined by Jean-Robert Wilkin (Head of BFF Business Development, Clearstream ), James Cherry (SVP Collateral & Liquidity Management, Clearstream) and Simon Millington (Head of Business Development, CloudMargin) to talk about the new tech solutions that are enabling new market participants to comply with UMR regulations and the new Phase 6 changes that arrive in 2022. We explore the challenges for the hundreds of newly in-scope counterparties under UMR Phase 6 to ach...

11-26

37:01

In this episode we look in-depth at the way blockchain technology and DLT is changing the world of collateral management with Fabrice Tomenko (CEO Clearstream International) and Nick Short (COO HQLAx). We go in-depth with the game-changing tools at HQLAx that can transfer collateral ownership across locations and jurisdictions at precise times, and consider the new concept of Collateral Immobility and how it can reduce pain points for market participants, remove settlement friction, re...

12-31

40:57

In this show Frank Gast (MD Fixed Income Derivatives & Exec. Member Eurex Repo) and Carsten Hiller (Head of Fixed Income Derivatives, Funding & Financing Sales for Europe, Eurex) join the show to discuss the growth of GC Pooling and the Eurex Repo Partnership Programme. Plus we explore the forces driving innovation and product development in the markets - from greater involvement of the Buy-Side and new market participants, through to the need for greater flexibility in B...

02-04

38:10

In this month's show, we welcome Phil Simons (Eurex Global Head of Sales for Fixed Income Derivatives, Funding and Financing) and Frank Odendall (Eurex Head of Repo Product & Business Development) to discuss the current conditions and challenges in the EU 27. We discuss the huge growth in cleared repo, driven by the need for margining and variations in a volatile EU marketplace, meeting the challenges of the 'perfect storm' of inflation, QE tapering, post-COVID economic recovery, EMIR re...

03-04

37:29

In the last show of season 1, we are delighted to present a feature-length virtual panel event with Margaret Kuhlow (Global Finance Practice Leader, WWF) and Viola Lutz (Head of Climate Solutions, ISS ESG). Our special guests (who are also speaking at the 2022 GFF summit in September) join Christian Rossler and Andrew Keith Walker to discuss the progress of ESG initiatives to affect sustainable change in the global funding and financing community. With expert insights, we discuss the ...

04-01

45:17

In this show we meet the Co-founder and CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, Sean Kidney, for a lively and wide ranging conversation about the vital role green bonds and green finance will play in preventing the worst effects of climate change. This show gives us some insights into the scale of the challenge, and the huge progress being made - which will be a key topic and panel event at this year's GFF Summit, 13-15 September 2022. Sean is a world-renowned expert, who in addition to his wor...

06-03

37:50

In this special extended show we go in-depth into the current state of climate finance, with former Finance Industry CIO of the IFC and COP26 panellist Jean-Marie Mass. As someone who was working with the IFC when its sister organisation the World Bank launched the first green bond in 2007, and went on to structure the first (and largest) green bond fund in the world with the IFC and Amundi in 2018, Jean-Marie Masse is acknowledged as one of the leading minds in the field of climate finance ...

07-01

41:53

New technologies such as blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) continue to be in the focus of financial market players as well as central banks. In this episode , we discuss the use of securities (collateral) and cash (digital currencies) in a DLT environment. We also consider the challenges facing Central Bank Digital Currencies, and the advances in digital issuance, tokenization, DLT collateral management and settlement systems.

08-05

39:34

In this month's show we present a preview of the 2022 GFF Summit in Luxembourg, which will be one of the biggest and most prestigious events on the European finance industry calendar. We meet the organisers, and talk about the big themes and topics that will make-up the agenda for the event - featuring senior leaders from politics, finance, central banks and green initiatives, plus dozens of speakers from over 25 major organisations and market participants, multiple networking events, closed ...

09-02

43:51

In this show we report back from the GFFSummit 2022 and catch-up with some of the guests, speakers and industry leaders that made the event such a huge success - including interviews with Farrah Mahmood and Adrian Dale (ISLA), repo expect and commentator Richard Comotto (ICMA), ESG investment and sustainable development expert Leslie Maasdoorp (CFO, New Development Bank), green bond pioneerJean-Marie Masse (MD Blue Like an Orange Sustainable Capital) and Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate ...

10-07

37:48

In this episode we discuss the emergence of sustainability-related repo products, explore the development and categorisation of sustainable practices within the repo market, and how sustainability-related repo plays a role in the transition to green finance - with Zhan Chen (Associate in Market Practice at ICMA) Carsten Hiller (Head of Fixed Income Derivatives, Funding & Financing Sales for Central Europe at Eurex & Vice Chair of ICMA’s Sustainable Repo Taskforce) and Marc Poinsignon ...

11-04

39:18

In this festive review of the year, Clearstream's Head of Securities Lending & Borrowing Banu Apers, Head of Business Development James Cherry and the new Global Head of Collateral Management Gaël Delaunay join Christian Rossler and Andrew Keith Walker to discuss the major collateral and securities lending developments of 2022 and the new products and services on offer from Clearstream in 2023. Plus our usual Merry Christmas message in the many languages of the Banking, Funding and ...

In this show we preview the upcoming GFF Summit 2023 in Luxembourg with CEO of Clearstream Securities Services Samuel Riley, and Head of Collateral, Lending and Liquidity Solutions Marton Szigeti. Together with co-hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler, they discuss the major themes that will dominate 2023 in the securities lending and repo markets, plus the theme of this year's GFF - "Thriving in a Changing World". With a preview of the events and influential speakers at this ...