GFF Podcast

In our final episode of Season 5, we explore the outlook for the next financial year, drawing insights from the international community at the recent IMF gathering in Washington. We discuss blended finance, new currents in climate finance and the changing flow of international capital from established markets and developing economies. Join our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler with Jean-Marie Masse, visiting scholar at the IMF, and Jan Willems, Head of Global Markets, Clearstream.

In this episode, we take an in-depth look into the world of corporate treasury with the legendary fashion brand Hermès and fintech innovator TreasurySpring. With Thomas Bourbon (Hermès) and Henry Adams (TreasurySpring), we discuss the evolving role of repo and securities lending in corporate treasury operations, joined by Matthieu Topkimoff (Clearstream) and our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler.

On this show, Eva-Maria Keller and Thomas Daniels (Clearstream) join Jason Brown (Google Cloud) for a conversation with hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler. Together, they explore post-trade platform initiatives, AI tools, and blockchain-based collateral management. As the ECB begins accepting digital collateral issued in CSDs, Clearstream, together with its partners, is positioned to shape market infrastructure, securities issuance, lending, and post-trade services well into the future.

Join us for a special, extended episode featuring interviews with keynote speakers, experts and leaders from this year's 30th anniversary GFF Summit and the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund Forum. We review recent updates from the ECB regarding DLT collateral, examining their impact on the markets, tokenization, stablecoins, and digital payment systems. Additionally, we discuss the EU's economic achievements and the increasing significance of the euro as a global reserve currency. Listeners will gain expert perspectives on current trends in finance and technology, including regulatory updates and market innovations. Featuring insights from leaders at ESM, Atlantic Council, Deutsche Börse, Clearstream, Coinbase, Circle, Eurex, ICMA, and Vermeg—including Kalin Anev Janse, James Fok, and Coralie Billman—this episode brings together top voices in the industry to provide valuable analysis and commentary.

In our Christmas special, we are joined by Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of the Geoeconomics Center at the Atlantic Council, to discuss the major economic events and geopolitical shifts of 2025, and what we should expect next year. Charles will be the opening keynote speaker at our 2026 GFF Summit and will also co-host the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Summit alongside our podcast hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler. We are talking about reserve currencies, China, U.S.-EU relations and the major news stories of 2025. Don't miss it!

Join our expert T+1 guests, Kathie Waldie and Roy Zimmerhansl, for a feature-length exploration of the T+1 transition. We review the current progress across EU, UK, and Swiss workstreams, discuss implications for settlement discipline and operational changes, and consider the impact on securities lending, repo, and collateral management beyond the 2027 deadline. Join Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler for this lively chat about T+1 and the market impact for global funding and financing.

In this special episode, we chat with Kalin Anev Janse, CFO of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). We discuss the evolving role of the ESM, the Savings and Investments Union, ESG holdings and the role of the Euro as a global reserve currency. Join Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler for a lively chat about the future of EU finances and the role of the EU in the global economy of the future

This month, we take an in-depth look at the rapidly evolving world of cash management and FX with Carlo Kölzer, founding partner of 360T, and Lars Janssen, Head of Liquidity Solutions Product Development at Clearstream. We discuss the needs of market participants and central banks as they manage multi-currency accounts in times of extreme market volatility following trade tariffs, reduced settlement cycles, and intraday repo, joined by our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler

We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of GC Pooling®, Deutsche Börse Group’s segment tailored to meet the needs of short-term collateralized money market trading and financing, as well as efficient collateral management . This episode brings together some of the people who made it happen, as well as the leaders driving today’s innovations that ensure GC Pooling remains a high-tech channel at the heart of European money markets. Join Gerd Hartung, Marcel Naas, Dirk Rothenbach, Marton Szigeti, Carsten Hiller, Frank Gast, Jean-Robert Wilkin and our regular hosts Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler for the story of how Clearstream and Eurex created this innovative CCP-cleared solution, and the largest regulated general collateral (GC) funding mechanism in Europe.

Join us for Season 5 of the GFF podcast with a deep dive into geoeconomics in 2025. We'll explore trade, tariffs, politics, markets, and economic trends in the EU, UK, U.S., and beyond, featuring insights from Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center. With nearly half of the world voting in recent national elections, what are the current geoeconomic trends? We will examine formal trading blocs, such as the EU, amid threats of trade wars and potential fragmentation. We will discuss U.S.-EU tariff relations as well as President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and its impact on global capital flows and currencies. Additionally, we will look into the energy needs of developing countries, highlighting funding challenges and recent statements by World Bank President Ajay Banga on nuclear project funding.

In our series four finale, we have a feature-length show with senior Ukrainian finance leaders Yuriy Butsa (Commissioner for Public Debt Management) and Yuriy Heletiy (Deputy Governor, National Bank of Ukraine). We discuss Ukraine's extraordinary financial system resilience in the face of a military invasion, its economic performance and strong monetary controls, and consider the costs and opportunities of postwar reconstruction. Join our regular hosts, Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler, for 45 minutes of lively chat and insight into one of the most remarkable economic success stories of the century.

Join us for this special live show recorded at the GFF Summit 2025. Dive into the insights and analysis from our keynote speakers: Charles Lichfield, Deputy Director of Geoeconomics at the Atlantic Council and James Pomeroy, Global Economist at HSBC, plus a special interview with Harri Vikstedt, Senior Director for Financial Markets at the Bank of Canada. With this year’s key theme “Navigating Uncertainty: Geopolitics and Market Dynamics” - get our expert perspectives on the global economy in 2025.

Happy New Year! We are back with a special preview of the 2025 Global Funding and Financing (GFF) Summit – on “Navigating uncertainty: Geopolitics and market dynamics”. The summit will take place in Luxembourg on 29-30 January. In this episode, we discuss about the big themes and keynote speakers that will make up the event’s agenda, focusing on collateral optimisation, regulatory changes and the importance of collaboration in adapting to evolving market conditions. Join Marton Szigeti (Clearstream), Elodie Putz (Clearstream), Johnathan Lombardo (Eurex) and Frank Gast (Eurex Repo) for a preview of the main GFF Summit, plus regular co-hosts Christian Rossler and Andrew Keith Walker to talk about the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund Forum.

Join us for our special year-end episode, where we reflect on a year of fintech innovation in securities lending and collateral management. We'll be making predictions about 2025 with regular hosts, Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler, plus our special guest Barnaby Nelson – fintech innovation expert and CEO of the Value Exchange. Additionally, our guest co-host, Fabrice Tomenko, will join us for a lively chat about tokenisation, DLT, CBDC, blockchain, AI, and the tensions between regulation, innovation and compliance in the current, rapidly evolving securities lending and money markets. Will it be a happy new year? Join us at the GFF Summit in January to find out.

In this special feature episode, we're joined by Olivier d'Assier (Lead Principal, Investment Decision Research, SimCorp) to discuss the reaction of global markets to Donald Trump's re-election, Labour's historic UK budget, and the rapidly changing political landscape in the EU. With co-hosts Andrew Keith Walker, Christian Rossler and James Cherry, we analyse the impact of these changes on inflation, fixed income, money markets, regulation and central bank policy from Asia to the EU and the Fed.

This is a reminder that our November episode will arrive the week after the US Election. We'll be joined by Oliver D'assier the Lead Principal, Investment Decision Research at Simcorp, and James Cherry the head of Business Development for Clearstream's Collateral, Liquidity and Lending Solutions team. Together, we'll predict the impact of the US Election, Labour's first UK Budget and European changes, all of which will affect securities lending, repo and economic policy within the EU and beyond. We'll see you after the US election...

This month we take a deep dive into treasury operations and the advantages of Clearstream’s unique marriage broking service within triparty repo. We discuss how Clearstream matches sell-side and buy-side market participants with new market opportunities, plus bilateral and triparty repo, foreign exchange (FX) swaps, cleared and uncleared services to manage cash across multiple jurisdictions. Join our hosts, Andrew Keith Walker and Christian Rossler, with Defi Kimenga, Head of Trading at Clearstream Treasury (Luxembourg) and Marc Poinsignon (Business Development, Marriage Broking) to discuss services that enable market participants to scale rapidly, reduce costs and be more agile in the money markets.

This month, we're joined by the SFT European Repo Team of 2024 - Eurex - to discuss the new balance sheet netting and collateral optimisation products developed in partnership with Clearstream. Join Jean-Robert Wilkin (Senior Adviser, Clearstream), Frank Gast (MD, Board Member and Global Head of Sales, - Eurex Repo) and Frank Odendall (Head of SF products and Business Development, Eurex Repo) for an in-depth tour of the new combined Eurex clearing services., These services enable cross-product margining and significant cost reductions for exchange-traded derivatives (ETDs), Repo and OTC interest rate swaps (IRS). Additionally, we discuss approaches for balance sheet netting, collateral optimisation and greater buy-side capital efficiency through new ISA Direct models, - as well as the market infrastructure that enables these advancements.

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 our D7 digital issuance platform, tokenisation, blockchain settlement advances, regulatory reporting and data quality - plus the latest advancements in AI-powered marriage broking (via OSCAR), automated margining, collateral mapping and the new enhanced Xact portal.

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). Listen for insights into collateral optimisation, liquidity management, balance sheet netting, regulatory compliance, blockchain settlement, tokenisation and more. Hosted by our regular team of central bank expert, Christian Rossler (Clearstream) and our resident podcast journalist Andrew Keith Walker.