AGM and Conference Agenda

Wednesday, May 27

Thursday, May 28

Friday, May 29

Wednesday May 27, 2026
ICMA Annual General Meeting & Welcome Reception Queen Elizabeth II Centre Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE
13:30	Registration and voting
15:00	Annual General Meeting (ICMA members only)
17:00	Spotlight on ICMA’s activities in the international capital markets Featuring the Chairs of ICMA Committees Moderator: Pablo Portugal, Steering Committee Member, Regulatory Policy Commitee & Senior Director, Public Affairs, Euroclear Marc Lewell, Co-Chair, Primary Market Practices Committee & Managing Director, APAC & EMEA Syndicate J.P. Morgan Securities plc Kristofer Middleton, Co-Chair, Financial Institution Issuer Forum & Head of Term Issuance and Capital Structuring, Lloyds Samantha Riley, Vice-Chair, Legal & Documentation Committee & Head of DCM Legal, Managing Director, Global Corporate & Institutional Banking, HSBC Yannig Loyer, Co-Chair, Secondary Market Practices Committee & Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, BNP Paribas Asset Management Gareth Allen, Chair, European Repo & Collateral Council \| Global Repo & Collateral Council & Head of Investment and Execution, UBS AG Stéphane Janin, Co-Chair, Asset Management & Investors Council & Head of Global Regulatory Developments and Public Affairs, BNP Paribas Asset Management Isabelle Laurent, Chair, The Principles & Deputy Treasurer and Head of Funding, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Emma Lovett, Co-Chair, FinTech Advisory Committee & Executive Director, Markets Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan
18:00	Close of AGM
18:00 - 21:00	Welcome reception

Thursday May 28, 2026
ICMA Annual Conference Queen Elizabeth II Centre Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE
08:00	Registration Exhibition open
08:15	Breakfast session 1 Accelerating progression: Top career hacks from senior leaders ICMA Future Leaders / ICMA Women’s Network breakfast session Sponsored by Slaughter & May Moderator: Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practices and Regulatory Policy, ICMA Jennifer Cresswell, Steering Committee Member, UK IWN and Global Head of Finance/International Capital Markets Knowledge & Training, A&O Shearman Martin Egan, Former Chair, ICMA, former Managing Director Global Co-Head Primary and Secondary Credit and former Vice Chairman of the Global Markets Client Board, BNP Paribas Lu Fu, Managing Director and Head of Digital Global Markets, EMEA, Mizuho International plc Further speakers to be announced.
08:15	Breakfast session 2 Capital in transition: What the transition economy means for finance SwissRE roundtable (places available upon request)
08:15	Breakfast session 3 ETFs / Heads of trading / private markets think tank roundtable Open to the buyside only
09:00	Opening remarks ICMA Chair
09:05	Keynote address Lucy Rigby MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and City Minister
09:15	Global financial markets at a turning point: geopolitical risk, markets, and capital flows Moderator: Katie Martin, Markets Columnist and Member of the Financial Times Editorial Board Souâd Benkredda, Member of the Board of Managing Directors, DZ BANK Bea Martin, Member of the Group Executive Board, Group Chief Operating Officer and President UBS EMEA, UBS Group AG Marco Morelli, Chairman of BNP Paribas Asset Management Patrick Thompson, CEO EMEA, JP Morgan Asset Management Valerie Urbain, CEO, Euroclear
09:55	Keynote America first and imperialism: Understanding the new geopolitical order Charles Myers, Chairman and Founder, Signum Global
10:15	Insights from Washington and impact for Europe Larry Wieseneck, Head of Global Corporate and Investment Banking, TD Securities & Vice Chair and Executive Vice President, TD Bank Group
10:30	Keynote reflections on markets Samara Cohen, Global Head of Market Development, BlackRock
10:40	Networking break
11:10	The future of fixed income markets Moderator: Katie Martin, Markets Columnist and Member of the Financial Times Editorial Board Dame Julia Hoggett, CEO, London Stock Exchange Jonathan Peberdy, CEO, Natwest Markets Jessica Pulay, CEO, UK Debt Management Office Michael Roberts, CEO, HSBC Bank plc & CEO of Corporate and Institutional Banking John Winter, Vice Chair, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Lloyds Corporate and Institutional Division
11:50	The buy-side trading desk: navigating liquidity, technology and execution Moderator: Elisabeth Ottawa, Steering Committee Member, ICMA Regulatory Policy Committee & Head of Public Policy, Schroders Lynn Challenger, Managing Director and Global Head of Trading, UBS Asset Management Louise Drummond, Global Head of Investment Execution, Aberdeen Investments Yannig Loyer, Global Head of Markets & Liquidity Solutions, BNP Paribas Asset Management Jason Warr, Managing Director, is Global Head of ETF Capital Markets within BlackRock Global Markets & Index Investments
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Keynote The perfect AI storm Danilo McGarry, Top 20 Influential people in AI globally
14:00	AI, tokenisation and digital money: What's the next frontier for capital markets Moderator: Etay Katz, Senior Partner & Head of Digital Assets and Financial Innovation, Ashurst Yana Djoneva, Chief Operating Officer & Member of the Management Board, European Stability Mechanism Thorben Lüthge, CFA, Head of Markets and Managing Director, DekaBank Danilo McGarry, Artificial Intelligence Leader and Technology Strategist Sorcha Sullivan-Williams, Head of Digital Assets – International Developed Markets, Tradeweb
14:40	Transfer to rooms
14:50	Concurrent sessions
	Session 1 Repo markets in transition: Resilience, clearing and the road ahead Moderator: Andy Hill, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy; Member of the ICMA Executive Committee, ICMA Amanda Butavand, Managing Director, Head Financing Sales at Crédit Agricole CIB Thomas Hansen, Global Head of Securities Finance, Banco Santander Janina Marks, Head of Sales and Business Development – Derivatives & Clearing, Euronext Olivier Nin, Head of Product & Head of First Line Risk, LCH RepoClear, LSEG Thomas Williams, Head of Solutions Trading and Structuring, Schroder IM
	Session 2 Strengthening securitisation through regulation and beyond Moderator: Natalie Westerbarkey, Managing Director, Co-Head of Market Practice & Regulatory Policy; Member of the ICMA Executive Committee, ICMA Maria Green, Senior Regulatory Adviser, Global Financial Markets, A&O Shearman Gina Hartnett, Head of Transaction Structuring - Private Debt & Credit Alternatives, Schroders Capital Alexandre Linden, Managing Director, Portfolio Management, Securitised Products Group, BNP Paribas Further speakers to be announced
15:30	Networking break
15:30	Convex session (45 minutes) Complex Bond Calculations – Case studies on make-whole calls and bond resets Places are available upon request
16:00	Concurrent sessions
	Session 3 Scaling up the European CP Market Moderator: Katie Kelly, Senior Director, Market Practice and Regulatory Policy, ICMA Scott Creed, Managing Director, Head of Prudential Liquidity Management, Lloyds Dr. Arthur Krebbers, Managing Director, Sustainable Finance Advisory, NatWest Commercial & Institutional and Visiting Professor of Finance at Strathclyde University Peter Pears, Partner, Mayer Brown International LLP Benoît Usciati, Head of the short and medium-term securities division, Monetary policy implementation directorate, Directorate general financial stability and operations, Banque de France
	Session 4 Private markets and private capital: the evolving role of institutional investors and private banks This session is under Chatham House Rule Moderator: Anita Karppi, Senior Director, Buyside, ICMA Cyril Demaria-Bengochea, Prof. Dr., Head of Private Markets Strategy, Managing Director, Senior Advisor, Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd George Kirkpatrick, Head of EMEA Credit Capital Markets, Apollo Further speakers to be announced*
16:40	Transfer to plenary room
16:50	Fireside chat Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, Bank of England Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive, ICMA
17:05	In focus: Bond market structure under the new transparency regimes Moderator: David Camara, Managing Director - FICC e-trading, market structure and markets strategic investments, Bank of America Ruchi Gawri, Head European Rates e-sales, Product and Market Structure, Morgan Stanley Jon Relleen, Director, Infrastructure & Exchanges, UK Financial Conduct Authority Virginie Saade, Managing Director & Head of Government & Regulatory Policy, Citadel Zornitsa Todorova, Head of Thematic FICC Research, Barclays
17:35	Keynote address Verena Ross, Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority
17:45	Closing remarks
17:50	Close of first day
19:45 - 23:00	Gala reception Natural History Museum

*The conference programme may be subject to change

Friday May 29, 2026
ICMA Annual Conference Queen Elizabeth II Centre Broad Sanctuary, London, SW1P 3EE
08:45	Open of exhibition
09:15	Welcome remarks Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive, ICMA
09:20	Keynote address Professor Philippe Aghion, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics and Chair, Economics of Institutions, Innovation and Growth, Collège de France
09:30	Keynote The Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma, KCMG
09:30	CCDC Closed-door session (1 hour) Cross-Border use of RMB bond collateral Places are available upon request
09:40	Keynote Takuya Fukumoto, Deputy Director General for the Green Transformation Policy & Innovation Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
09:50	Financing the entire transition: How sustainable bond markets are evolving Moderator: Agnès Gourc, Head of Sustainable Capital Markets, BNP Paribas Alban de Fay, Head of Fixed Income SRI processes and Credit Portfolio Manager, Amundi Grover Burthey, Executive Vice President and Head of ESG Portfolio Management, PIMCO Hideki Takada, Director, GX Acceleration Agency Further speakers to be announced
10:30	Fireside chat Lisa Sachs, Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), Columbia Climate; and Director of Columbia's M.S. in Climate Finance Nicholas Pfaff, Deputy Chief Executive & Head of Sustainable Finance, ICMA
10:45	Networking break
10:45	Closed-door roundtable (45 minutes) Strengthening global synergies to advance transition finance: Japan as a bridge Places are available upon request
11:15	In conversation Fang Wenjian, General Manager, Bank of China UK Tim Skeet, Chair, ICMA UK regional committee and Chief Institutional Relationship Officer, Member of the Executive Management Committee, Bank of China, London Branch
11:30	Unlocking capital: Advancing bond markets globally Moderator: Mushtaq Kapasi, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, ICMA Modupe Famakinwa, Senior Vice President, Head, Corporate Funding & Investor Relations, Africa Finance Corporation Lyn Javier, Deputy Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Ma Jianyang, Chairman, Shanghai Clearing House Further speakers to be announced
12:10	In conversation Baroness Kay Swinburne, Member of the House of Lords Further speaker to be announced
12:25	Keynote Leadership lessons John M. Flint CBE, Former Group Chief Executive of HSBC and former Chief Executive of the National Wealth Fund; Current Chairman of WWF-UK
12:45	If AI can do most white-collar jobs in 18 months - What comes next? Moderator: Shruti Ajitsaria, Partner and Head of Fuse, A&O Shearman Jeff Tijssen, Co-Founder, Stealth and Advisor, Bain & Company Further speakers to be announced
13:15	Keynote Global competition and the no rules world order Lieutenant General Robert Ashley, former Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency & Member, Geopolitical Intelligence Group, Academy Securities
13:25	Closing remarks Bryan Pascoe, Chief Executive, ICMA
13:30	Networking lunch
14:30	Close of conference

*The conference programme may be subject to change

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