Overview
Agenda
Date: 6 December 2024
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Overview
The ICMA Secondary Market Forum has established itself as one of the must-attend events in the annual calendar for participants active in the European bond markets. Primarily focused on sovereign, SSA, and credit markets, the Forum is an opportunity for buy sides and sell sides, as well as trading venues, data providers, and trading solutions, to come together for a day of learning, sharing, and networking with industry peers, clients, and counterparts.
This year the themes focused on how technology, innovation, and regulation are evolving the fixed income trading landscape, as well as how bond markets are responding to shifts in the macro-economic and geopolitical tectonic plates.
| GMT | This event is operating under Chatham House rule. | |
| 08:45 | Registration and light breakfast | |
| 09:15 | Welcome remarks Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy & secretary to the Secondary Market Practices Committee, ICMA Sonali Theisen, Global Head of FICC e-trading, Market Structure & Markets Strategic Investments, Bank of America & former SMPC co-chair |
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| 09:25 | Keynote address Claudia Trauffler, Head of Capital Markets, HM Treasury |
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| 09:45 | How is data reshaping bond market structure? Moderator: David Cámara, Director - Senior trading strategist, Bank of America & Co-chair of the ICMA SMPC
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| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Keynote address Tobias Linzert, Adviser, European Central Bank |
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| 11:20 | Outlook for Global bond markets Moderator: Raj Paranandi, Chief Operating Officer, EMEA and APAC, MarketAxess
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| 11:55 | Keynote address Brian Weinstein, Head of EMEA Global Markets, Bank of America |
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| 12:15 | Fixed Income ETFs - Growth, innovation and impacts on bond markets Moderator: Angharad Binnington, Head of EMEA FICC ETF Distribution, Bank of America
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| 12:55 | Closing remarks Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy & secretary to the Secondary Market Practices Committee, ICMA |
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| 13:00 | Networking lunch | |
| 14:30 | Event close |
| Overview of the latest developments in the sustainable bond markets: an ICMA and BofA Securities training workshop (by invitation only) Organised by: ICMA and BofA Securities Time: 08:30 - 16:30 SGT, Tuesday, June 27 Venue: The Westin Singapore ICMA and BofA Securities will hold a one-day training workshop aimed at regulators, issuers, investors and other market participants from the APAC region on June 27 at the Westin Singapore. The workshop will cover a comprehensive range of topics including: an overview of the Principles, financing themes such as climate transition, blue and biodiversity, overview of the EU/ASEAN taxonomies, an update on external reviews, disclosures and reporting as well as a case study on sustainability-linked bond issuance. Presenters will include representatives from ICMA, IFC, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, BofA Securities, RAM Sustainability and Dentons Hong Kong. |
| Roundtable on Singapore GFIT Taxonomy (invitation only) Organised by ICMA Time: 10:00-11:30 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Venue: Singapore |
| Roundtable on global and Asian transition finance (invitation only) Organised by ICMA Time: 15:30-17:00 SGT, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Venue: Singapore |
