The Global Funding and Financing (GFF) podcast is Clearstream’s podcast series for the funding and financing industry, releasing monthly episodes with senior leaders in the space of secured finance covering all major topics shaping the world of collateral, securities lending, repo and OTC derivates leading up to the 2022 edition of the GFF Summit in Luxembourg. Stay connected with the GFF community across the globe and subscribe to our show. Each of the 30 minutes of lively episodes are host ...
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Collateral management special: Margins, optimisations & innovations
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This month's show takes a deep dive into collateral management with Gaël Delaunay, Head of Collateral Management at Clearstream. Joined by Priya Sharma, Head of Data & Client Connectivity, we explore the technology and the data strategy underpinning the latest innovations in collateral management. We also take a closer look at major milestones in o…
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Season 4 Premiere: ISLA Special - the 2025 Industry Leader Outlook
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For our new season premiere, we're presenting a show with industry leaders from ISLA, BNY, Clearstream and HQLAx. Featuring insights and analysis from Ina Budh-Raja & Andrew Dyson (ISLA), Marton Szigeti, James Cherry, Banu Apers, Alexandre Roques, Marc Poinsignon & Jean-Robert Wilkin (Clearstream) and Elisa Poutanen & Charlie Amesbury (HQLAx). List…
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Clearstream adds central bank money settlement for uncleared triparty repo
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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…
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GFF Podcast episode 9: ETF Securities Lending and Product Innovation
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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 exp…
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The future of AI in securities lending, repo and market infrastructure
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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 o…
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GFF Summit Live: 2024 Outlook with Industry Leaders - What Lies Ahead?
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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 (Deuts…
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Year-End Special: Repo Markets, Excess Liquidity, ECB policy & Predictions for 2024
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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 (Hea…
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Securities Lending Special: Meet the ISF Global Investor Best-in-Class 2023 Winners
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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 al…
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SIBOS Debrief: Behind the Headlines with Marton Szigeti and Marcus Austin
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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…
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Fostering New African Repo Markets with David Escoffier & the COP26 Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
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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…
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Exploring CCMS - the Canadian Collateral Management System with Clearstream & TMX CDS
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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…
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Leverage the Future Potential of ECMS with Clearstream & Vermeg
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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 u…
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Thriving in a Changing World - GFF Summit 2023 Preview
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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 rep…
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Review of 2022 & New Collateral Initiatives for 2023
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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Accelerate Your Journey - The 2022 GFF Summit Preview Special
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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…
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Central Bank Digital Currencies & Digital Transformation in the Finance Industry - with Steve Jacoby
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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 …
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Climate Finance Masterclass with Jean-Marie Masse
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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 bon…
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Greening the Economy: Sustainable Securities Lending, Repo & Green Bonds with Sean Kidney, CEO Climate Bond Initiative
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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 - whic…
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Sustainable Funding & Financing with WWF and ISS ESG
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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 pr…
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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 variation…
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Secured Funding and Financing in Motion with Eurex Repo
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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 ma…
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The Future of Collateral Management in 2022 - Blockchain, DLT & HQLA
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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…
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Collateral Management Innovations & UMR Solutions with CloudMargin
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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…
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Frictionless End-to-End Investor Banking Services with Défi Kimenga and José Manoka
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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 enab…
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Triparty Securities Lending & Collateral Management with Jonathan Lombardo
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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 exper…
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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 Repo (repurchasing agreements) with Richard Glen (Head of Collateral Management, Clearstream) and Para Saratchandran (Product Manager for Repo, Clearstream). Like Repo markets, this is a fast movi…
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ASL Principal - Special Preview of the New Fails Lending Product for T2S
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In this show our hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler go in-depth for a lively SecLending chat about Clearstream's new fails lending product ASL Principal, which bridges the gap between ICSDs and CSD settlement on the T2S platform. The leads on this unique new product - Banu Apers (Head of Securities Lending and Borrowing, Clearstream) a…
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The Award Winning ASLplus Platform with Tilman Fechter and Alexandre Roques
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Stay connected with the GFF community across the globe In this episode we explore the need for Central Banks to lend high quality liquid assets acquired through ECB asset purchasing programmes - PSPP and PEPP - back into securities markets to increase liquidity. Our special guests are Tilman Fechter (Head of Banking, Funding & Financing at Clearstr…
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