2013 (Diploma in Financial Market Operations)

• Primary markets

  • ICMA Primary Market Handbook - Home

  • Primary market committees

    • ICMA Primary Market Practices Committee
    • ICMA Asia Pacific Bond Syndicate Forum
    • ICMA Legal and Documentation Committee
    • ICMA Asia Pacific Legal & Documentation Forum
    • Public Sector Issuer Forum
    • ICMA Corporate Issuer Forum
    • ICMA Financial Institution Issuer Forum

  • Primary market topics

    • Accounting and auditing
    • Benchmark reform and transition to risk-free rates
    • Collective action clauses
    • MiFID II/R in primary markets
    • Primary markets conduct (non-MiFID)
    • Electronification
    • Primary markets technology mapping directory
    • Dialogue with investors
    • Initial disclosure (Prospectus and PRIIPs)
    • Market infrastructure and asset servicing
    • Market abuse regulation (MAR) - primary market aspects
    • Periodic reporting / continuing obligations
    • Taxation (Primary markets)
    • Other ICMA primary market advocacy materials

  • Primary market products

    • Bank capital
    • Euro Commercial Paper
    • Green bonds
    • Infrastructure financing
    • Islamic finance
    • Private placements
    • Retail structured products
    • Securitisation
    • Sovereign Debt
    • Covered bonds (asset management perspective)
    • Securitisation (asset management perspective)

• Secondary markets

  • ICMA’s rules and recommendations for the secondary market

    • ICMA consultation on the Buy-in Rules

  • Secondary Market Practices Committee (SMPC) and related Working Groups

    • ICMA SMPC and Terms of reference
    • MiFID II/R Working Group
    • CSDR-SD Working Group
    • Secondary Market Rules & Recommendations Working Group
    • ICMA Electronic Trading Council (ETC)
  • Central Bank corporate bond purchase programmes

  • Electronic trading

    • Electronic Trading Platform directory
    • ICMA Industry guide to definitions and best practice for bond pricing distribution
    • Papers and reports
    • Common Domain Model (CDM)

  • Market transparency

    • Transparency Directory
    • Consolidated tape

  • Market data

    • IG corporate bond traded volumes (ICE Data Services)
    • Euro Government bond markets
    • Euro corporate bond markets
    • Global bond yields

  • Market liquidity

    • Bond Market Liquidity Library
    • European Commission Expert Group on Corporate Bond Markets
    • ICMA Studies and Papers
    • ICE Data Services’ Corporate Bond Liquidity Tracker

  • Secondary markets regulation

    • MiFID II/R implementation in secondary markets
    • CSDR settlement discipline
    • Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB)
    • MAR/investment recommendations
  • Euro safe assets

  • Secondary market initiatives

    • Aged-fails auction initiative
  • Archive

• Repo and collateral markets

  • ICMA ERCC Governance

    • ICMA ERCC members and General Meetings
    • ICMA ERCC Committee
    • ICMA ERCC Operations Group
    • ICMA International Repo and Collateral Council and Committee

  • Legal documentation

    • Global Master Repurchase Agreement (GMRA)
    • ICMA GMRA legal opinions
    • Resolution Stays
    • FAQs on the GMRAs

  • ICMA ERCC Publications

    • ICMA ERCC Reports
    • ICMA ERCC papers and responses
    • ICMA ERCC Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market
    • ICMA ERCC Recommendations for Reporting under SFTR
    • Frequently Asked Questions on Repo

  • Market data

    • SFTR Public Data
    • SFTR Public Data - archive
    • ICMA repo survey
    • Euro Repo Funds Rate
    • GBP Money Market Rates
    • USD Repo Rates
    • FX Basis Swaps
    • LIBOR-OIS Spreads (‘LOIS’)

  • Regulation

    • MiFID II/R and SFTs
    • EU SFT Regulation

  • FinTech

    • ICMA Ops FinTech mapping directory
    • Common Domain Model (CDM)
    • Repo Trading Technology Directory

  • Other resources

    • Latest ICMA ERCC News
    • ICMA ERCC events and courses
    • ICMA ERCC Repo and Collateral Newsletter

• Short-term markets

  • ICMA Commercial Paper (and Certificates of Deposit) Committee

• Asset management

  • ICMA AMIC Councils and Committees

    • AMIC Executive committee composition
    • AMIC Covered Bond Investor Council (CBIC)
    • Currently active subcommittees and working groups

  • AMIC Publications

    • Market standards
    • AMIC reports and reviews
    • AMIC responses
    • Latest AMIC news and regulatory updates

  • Covered bonds

    • CBIC issues

  • Specific regulatory issues

    • EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
    • MiFID II/R - research unbundling
    • Securitisation
    • Other
    • Brexit: Implications for AMIC members of the UK vote to leave the EU
  • ICMA AMIC archive

Sustainable finance

• FinTech and market electronification

  • ICMA FinTech Advisory Committee
  • New FinTech applications in bond markets
  • Common Domain Model (CDM)

  • ICMA FinTech directories

    • ICMA primary markets technology directory
    • Electronic Trading Platform directory
    • ICMA Repo trading technology directory
    • ICMA Ops FinTech mapping directory
    • ICMA Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) regulatory directory
  • FinTech regulatory roadmap
  • FinTech and Sustainable Finance Library
  • FinTech jargon

• Market infrastructure

  • European Post-Trade Forum (EPTF)
  • AMI-SeCo
  • TARGET2-Securities
  • CPMI-IOSCO

  • Past initiatives

    • EGMI
    • CESAME
    • Code of Conduct on clearing and settlement
    • European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)
    • Harmonisation of securities law
    • CSDR: migration to T+2

• Other projects

  • Capital Markets Union
  • Fair and Effective Markets Review
  • Global FX Code

Benchmark reform and transition to risk-free rates

Post-Brexit

• COVID-19 Information Hub

  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Monetary policy
  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Regulatory responses
  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Market practice
  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Market data & commentary
  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Sustainable finance
  • COVID-19 Information Hub: Additional resources

• ICMA Quarterly Report

  • Previous editions

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