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Fund Disclosure in Transition: UK Product Summary vs EU PRIIPs KID
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17:53In this episode of The Legal Zeidgeist, we dive into one of the most consequential yet under-discussed developments in fund disclosure: the regulatory divergence between the UK’s proposed Product Summary and the EU’s PRIIPs Key Information Document (KID). As the UK continues to chart its post-Brexit course, asset managers are now facing two paralle…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU Savings and Investment Union: issuance aspects (including PRIIPs)
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3:39Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, narrates ICMA’s response to the European Commission’s SIU consultation questions on issuance (including PRIIPs).By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council
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32:13In this podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), recorded on 15th June 2025, Bob Parker and Massimiliano Castelli discussed: Highlights of the recently published UBS Annual Reserve Manager Survey New tariffs imposed by Trump and how it will evolve Growth and inflation The stability of bond market Equity markets showing strong…
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Beyond the Checklist: Smarter Due Diligence for Fund Managers
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6:31In this episode of The Legal Zeidgeist, Mathilde Stich unpacks the critical role of due diligence in the investment funds industry. With growing regulatory scrutiny and operational complexity, fund managers are under more pressure than ever to ensure robust due diligence processes are in place. Whether you're managing fund operations, compliance, o…
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Law & AI: How Do You Like Them A(I)pples?
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12:27In this episode of The Legal Zeidgeist, Kate Horgan is joined by Alex Mercer, Head of Innovation at Zeidler Group, to explore how AI is transforming the delivery of legal services. Drawing on his background as a lawyer and his current role leading innovation, Alex offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Zeidler Group embeds large language models and…
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European Fund Distribution 101: Facilities Agents & Cross-Border Registrations
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9:17In this episode of The Legal Zeidgeist, Kate Horgan is joined by Patricia Nitschke and Shalu Sura from our Regulatory Services Division to demystify two essential services supporting global fund distribution: European Facilities Agent Services and Regulatory Cross-Border Registrations. Patricia provides a detailed overview of the Facilities Agent, …
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU/UK MiFID: update and timeline
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4:42Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, gives an update on the EU/UK MiFID and its timeline.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU Savings and Investment Union: securitisation aspects
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7:30Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, discusses ICMA’s engagement with the EU Savings and Investment Union: securitisation aspects.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: ICMA NBFI position paper
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6:41Irene Rey, Associate Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, provides a summary of ICMA's position paper on Non Bank Financial Intermediaries (NBFI).By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: T+1 and SFTs
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5:41Alexander Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, gives an update on T+1 and SFTs.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: ICMA BMLT: The European investment grade corporate bond market
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2:53Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, discusses the ongoing work of the Bond Market Liquidity Taskforce (BMLT), focusing on the European investment grade corporate bond market.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: EU Savings and Investment Union: innovation and tokenisation
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2:28Gabriel Callsen, Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, gives an update on ICMA’s engagement with innovation and tokenisation in capital markets, focusing on contributions to the European Commission’s Savings and Investment Union consultation.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: ICMA Primary Market Innovation Project
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4:17Armin Peter, ICMA Consultant, speaks about the work of ICMA’s Primary Market Innovation Project, which engaged over 150 stakeholders to chart a path for evolutionary change in capital markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Ensuring financial stability in a time of tariffs
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10:07Paul Richards, Senior Advisor, considers the international authorities’ assessment of the financial stability risks arising from the US Administration’s policy of reciprocal tariffs and the impact on capital markets US Administration’s policy of reciprocal tariffs and the impact on capital markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: The role of sustainability in European commercial paper markets
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5:50Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, underscores the critical role of sustainability in the evolution of European commercial paper markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: New Practitioner’s Guide published during AGM of the Principles
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3:31Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, summarises the new "Sustainable Bonds for Nature: A Practitioners Guide" released during the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: AGM of the Principles and new best practice guidance
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5:20Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy CEO and Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, reflects on the new and updated guidance released at the AGM of the Principles in London on 26th June.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Building a stronger European integrated market: ICMA’s vision for the Savings and Investment Union
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10:59Natalie Westerbarkey, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, outlines ICMA’s response to the European Commission’s consultation on EU capital markets integration, offering insights into key challenges and strategic recommendations.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q3 2025: Navigating complexity, advancing resilience: ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets
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6:09Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, reflects on ICMA’s role and priorities in the international capital markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Social Bonds Podcast – an update and focus on impact reporting
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28:40Following ICMA’s Social Bonds Podcast Series in 2022/2023, this episode provides an update on the social bonds market: what types of projects issuers are funding these days, how investors are looking at social bonds, what the advantages of a portfolio approach in impact reporting are, and how ICMA’s Harmonised Framework for Impact Reporting can hel…
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AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council
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45:56In this podcast from the Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC), recorded on 10th June 2025, Bob Parker and Massimiliano Castelli discussed: The continuing US/China tariff negotiations. What’s the impact on the Chinese economy? Given the US budget bill, what are the implications for the US budget deficit, the US credit rating and US Treasury…
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AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council
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34:28Listen now to the 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…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: T+1: the impact on bond market trading
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8:14Andy Hill, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, considers the implications for bond markets of the recent wave of shortening of settlement cycles in securities markets, that began in the US and is now set to be copied in Europe and elsewhere.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Foreword to the QR: Adapt and reset
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7:55Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive of ICMA, reflects on the impact of the recent geopolitical activity upon the global capital markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Debt relief under New York and English law
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7:38Leland Goss, Managing Director, General Counsel, ICMA, assesses the impact of potential moves, in New York and London, to enact legislation aimed at addressing perceived shortcomings within the existing sovereign debt restructuring framework.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: EU Savings and Investments Union Strategy: summary of key points
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14:06Natalie Westerbarkey, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, outlines how the fixed income market plays a key role in achieving EU investment needs by providing low-cost, simple solutions for retail investors’ wealth creation and alternative funding sources for corporations in addition to bank loans, resulting in the promotion of s…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Making European capital markets more competitive
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8:49Paul Richards considers the opportunities for making European capital markets more competitive.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: A time for change in the sustainable fund market
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7:50Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy Chief Executive, Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA, and Özgür Altun, Associate Director, Sustainable Finance, ICMA, summarise the main points of their latest paper, published on 25 March 2025, which details reflections and recommendations for the sustainable fund market in a new regulatory environment.…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Artificial intelligence regulation in the bond market: finding the balance
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8:12Emma Thomas, Associate, FinTech and Digitalisation, ICMA, comments on the efforts by financial market regulators to adapt to growth in the usage of AI within Financial servicesBy ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: POATRS and the UK Listing Rules: ICMA response to the FCA
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3:14Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, comments on the response to the FCA's consultation paper that proposed changes to the public offers and admissions to trading regime (POATRS), the product governance regime and the UK Listing Rules.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Impact of CJEU case on asymmetric jurisdiction clauses in bond documentation
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3:31Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, discusses the use of asymmetric jurisdiction clauses in the international debt capital markets following the judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Lastre SpA v. Agora SARL case.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Final post-trade referral framework for bonds: ICMA letter to ESMA and the EC
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7:31Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on ESMA's final post-trade referral for bonds and the ICMA letter to ESMA and the European Commission.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Repo best practice
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8:55Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talks about ICMA's repo and collateral market work, focusing specifically on recent publications in this field, including the latest European Repo Market Survey and the ERCC's Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market.…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing, Q2 2025: Leverage in NBFI: ICMA AMIC response to the FSB
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6:34Irene Rey, Associate Director, MPRP, ICMA, discusses AMIC's response to the Financial Stability Board’s consultation report on addressing financial stability risks arising from leverage in Non-Bank Financial Intermediation.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council
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38:27Listen now to the 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…
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AMIC Market update: ICMA Asset Management & Investors Council
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32:49Listen now to the 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…
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Reflections on 10 years of the ICMA Women’s Network
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14:06ICMA's CEO, Bryan Pascoe and Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, talk about the ICMA Women's Network, which celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Fixed income ETFs: growth, innovation, and impact on bond markets
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13:44Natalie Westerbarkey, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy, ICMA, explores the growth, innovation, and impact on bond markets of fixed income ETFs.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: The functioning of the EU securitisation framework
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7:06Nicolette Moser, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an update on ICMA's response to the recent EU Commission's Targeted Consultation on the functioning of the EU Securitisation Framework.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Assessing the adequacy of macroprudential policies for NBFI
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7:34Irene Rey, Associate Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, discusses the adequacy of macroprudential policies for NBFI.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: The push and pull for central clearing in the sovereign bond markets
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9:41Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, provides an report on the push and pull for central clearing in the sovereign bond markets.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Rebuilding UK/EU relations in financial services outside the EU Single Market
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6:39Paul Richards, Senior Adviser, ICMA, considers the scope for the UK to rebuild relations with the EU in financial services, while remaining outside the EU Single Market.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: UK prospectus regime
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6:23Miriam Patterson, Senior Director, ICMA, discusses ICMA’s response to the UK Financial Conduct Authority's consultation on the new UK prospectus regime.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: EU Listing Act: ESMA Prospectus Regulation proposals
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4:34Ruari Ewing, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA, gives an update on the EU Listing Act: ESMA Prospectus Regulation proposals.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: The role of commercial paper in the sustainable finance market
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4:35Katie Kelly, Senior Director, ICMA, discusses the role of commercial paper in the sustainable finance market.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: T+1 in the EU and UK, including future EU governance
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7:22ICMA’s Alex Westphal, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, talks about the latest discussions and developments around Europe's planned transition to a T+1 settlement cycle.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Bond market transparency and consolidated tapes in the EU and UK
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7:00Nina Suhaib-Wolf, Director, ICMA, presents the latest updates on the EU and UK frameworks for bond market transparency and consolidated tapes.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: ESMA clarifications on ESG-related fund naming guidelines
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5:05Ozgur Altun, Associate Director, Sustainable Finance, provides an overview of the ESMA’s Guidelines on ESG-related fund names.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: Looking forward: ICMA’s strategic priorities for FinTech and digitalisation in 2025
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3:03Georgina Jarratt, Managing Director, ICMA, updates on ICMA's strategic priorities for FinTech and digitalisation in 2025.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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ICMA Quarterly Briefing Q1 2025: MAS Guardian Fixed Income Framework
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5:51Gabriel Callsen, Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, ICMA talks about the MAS Guardian Fixed Income Framework.By ICMA (International Capital Market)
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