In our final episode of Season 3, we take an in-depth look at Clearstream's newly added central bank money (CeBM) settlement for triparty repo. Integrated with the EU’s TARGET2 real-time gross settlement platform, CeBM opens up uncleared triparty repos to a wider market of more diverse financial and non-financial counterparties. CeBM is designed to facilitate entities such as debt management offices and state treasuries that want to engage in the reduced risk of central bank money settlement,...

In this show, we discuss the arrival of ETFs in securities lending and the new product and service offerings to meet the demand for ETF lending at Clearstream. As ETFs with fixed income underlying assets are now available for securities lending and eligible for use in both fails and strategic securities lending products, we go in-depth with ETF expert Allan Stewart (Exec. Director of ETF Sales and Relationship Management) and Catherine Pring (Senior Product Manager for Securities Lending...

Tune in to the newest episode of the #GFFpodcast featuring Bart Coppens, one of the architects of OSCAR, our AI-based application for collateral management, and Fabrice Tomenko, innovation leader and CEO of Clearstream International S.A. Together with host Andrew Keith Walker they explore the latest #AI fintech innovations and the next generation of AI workplace tools. 

In this show  we interview senior leaders live at the GFF Summit on the rising repo markets, T+1, collateral management, intraday trading & liquidity concerns, AI in finance, Central Banks, CCPs, changing monetary policy & ECB operations, clearing US Treasuries, sustainable development goals, green finance and more - with Dr. Karsten Stroborn (Deutsche Bundesbank), Leslie Maasdoorp (New Development Bank), Jean-Marie Masse (EuroGreen Capital Partners), Richard Comotto (ICMA), Adrian...

In this special year-end episode, we explore the changing EU money market ecosystem. We discuss quantitative tightening, new developments in Minimum Reserve Requirements, changes to sovereign deposit remuneration and excess liquidity. With expert insight from Christophe Rieger (Head of Commerzbank's Rates and Credit Research) and Martin Nazary (Head of Short Term Products at Deutsche Finanzagentur, a major source of liquidity in EU repo markets), both speakers at the upcoming GFF Summit in...

In this show, we celebrate our award-winning ASLplus platform. Lifetime Achievement Award winner Alexandre Roques (Head of Sec Lending Trading Desk) and Head of Securities Lending and Borrowing Banu Apers join us for a look at the innovative features and trade ideas that earned this prestigious win from a survey of borrowers around the world. We also look at how Securities Lending markets have changed over the years and consider the major impacts of quantitative tightening over 2023, the...

In this episode Marton Szigeti (Head of Collateral, Lending and Liquidity Solutions) and Marcus Austin (Head of Sales, UK Ireland & Americas, CLLS) give us the insider view of this year’s SIBOS event. We go behind the headlines to explore what the implications of T+1 will mean for markets globally; how AI and data will shape collateral and lLending over the coming years; and explore a diverse range of headline topics from CBDC to the growth of Triparty Collateral Management, blockchain,...

In this special extended episode, Christian Rossler and Andrew Keith Walker are joined in a lively discussion by special guests David Escoffier (CEO, LSF) and James Cherry (Clearstream) to discuss the LSF Secretariat's plans to reduce the burden of financing costs for African Sovereigns and high-quality counterparties through establishing secondary markets for African repos, and increase African green bond issuances to help finance their climate goals. David discusses the mechanics of the...

In this new episode, our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler are joined by two guests: Steve Everett, Head of Business Strategy & Innovation at the Canadian Depository for Securities (TMX CDS), and Fabrice Tomenko, CEO of Clearstream International. Together, they discuss the unique partnership between TMX and Clearstream and its far-reaching implications for collateral management and mobilisation in Canada, which has given rise to Canada’s first triparty collateral management...

Welcome back to season 3 of the GFF Podcast. In this new season, we kick off episode 1  with an in-depth discussion on the work being done by Clearstream and its partner VERMEG on the Eurosystem Collateral Management System (ECMS). The ECMS will bring together the 20 Eurozone national central banks with a single, unified system for managing assets used as collateral in Eurosystem credit operations. Set to go live in April 2024, ECMS represents a major innovation for market participants across...

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...

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 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...

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 Bond...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Balance...

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, reduce...

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...

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,...