The Financial Bite: Recent Episodes
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The Financial Bite podcast explores leading topics in finance and economics for an interested, generalist audience. We interview thinkers, movers and shakers in global finance to learn what’s happening and what’s next.
Together with Tradeweb, The Financial Bite navigates the benefits of Repo electronification.
Some of the questions are:
"What are clients and dealers saying about their need for electronification in repo as central banks pull back from the market?” "What benefits have full adopters seen in electronic trading?"
Interviewees are James Kelly, European Head of Repo, and Andrew Beer, managing director, and head of European Institutional Rates at Tradeweb.
Tradeweb is the leading fixed income, derivatives and ETF electronic trading platform for institutional, wholesale, retail investors and dealers. A company built on market-transforming breakthroughs.
The Financial Bite, along with a panel of experts, explores leading ideas for reforming US Treasury market structure. The main question is: "Where is there real progress and what hurdles remain?” This episode hosts BNY Mellon, a leader in investment services and settlements for Treasuries.
Anais Schmidt speaks with Colleen Stapleton, Post-trade Business Developer at MarketAxess, on Straight-through Processing (STP) in repo. We hear from Colleen on STP’s relevance, users and pursuers, and Europe's Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR). We discuss how repo markets have seen a variety of solutions providers entering the market in the last two years and what this means for firms looking to navigate their options.
The Financial Bite speaks with Eurex’s Gerry Denham on the implications of Europe’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, or SFDR, on securities finance.
Some of the questions asked are: What’s the reality on the ground for SFDR fund participation for securities finance, since SFDR doesn’t mention securities lending or repo by name? What are the implications of this omission? We finish off with hearing how Eurex’s Green Bond Baskets introduced in 2020 can make a difference.
Anais Schmidt speaks with Gerard Denham, Business Development, Sales & Relationship Management at Eurex, on SFDR and its implications.
Can cryptocurrencies be considered as sustainable and can investors embrace cryptocurrencies and ESG?
Anais Schmidt talks with Martin Walker, Financial Software Product Manager, Banking & Finance Director at Center for Evidence-Based Management, on sustainable cryptocurrencies.
In today’s episode, our guest is Laura Klimpel, General Manager of the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation & Head of SIFMU Business Development at DTCC.
We are going to discuss some of the industry benefits of Central clearing US Treasury transactions, the different client clearing models that FICC supports for US Treasury cash and repo transactions, as well as some of the takeaway lessons that policymakers can apply from the transition of swaps to clearing.
Can tether be considered transparent and trustworthy?
What future regulations can we expect? And does a future exist where multiple stable coins can be used at scale? Even if they're functionally used in different ways.
Anais Schmidt speaks with Stephane Reverre, Capital Market expert, President of Sun Zu Lab, and author of “The complete Arbitrage Deskbook” and “Introduction to Modern Finance: 15 principles” about Tether's threats and opportunities.
What would it look like to put into practice a circular economy at a city level? What are the elements that form the doughnut theory, and what can we say about the food industry?
Anais Schmidt speaks with Leonardo Conte, lecturer of International Business Economics and Doughnut Economics at Franklin University, and Fiorenzo Comini, sustainability enthusiast and graduate Master's student in Business Administration on Doughnut economics and the food supply chain.
In a world where the dynamic challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and population growth are testing the earth’s limits; financial actors play a crucial role in allocating their capital in a sustainably responsible way. This episode seeks to answer the question, what does it mean to invest in sustainable resources?
Anais Schmidt speaks with Eliya Devay, Swiss innovative management consultant and project manager on sustainable investments.
This episode is presented by Finadium.
A Financial Bite with Peter Seele at USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Lugano.
While ethics, sustainability, and CSR have gained in popularity, problems with the management, effectiveness, and efficacy impede progress.
At its core, CSR can be viewed as a business process. Therefore, in constant need for improvement in its efficiency and effectiveness.
The question is “Can AI bring this improvement and what does this matter to investors?”
This episode is presented by Finadium.
A Financial Bite with Georgetown's Jim Angel. As Biden begins to act on some of his early promises, he is naming close advisers and aides to work with him in the White House. What can we expect from this new administration and what will it mean for the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)? In this interview we dig deeper.