GFF Podcast
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 hosted by Andrew Keith Walker, Finance and Tech Journalist and Christian Rossler, Senior VP, Securities Lending and Borrowing Products at Clearstream. Legal Information here - https://www.clearstream.com/clearstream-en/imprint-1277756
Episodes
37 episodes
GFF Summit live show: Geopolitics, economics and capital markets
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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34:18
GFF Summit 2025 Preview
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 e...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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34:04
2024 Year-End Special: Tokenisation, DLT, AI and fintech innovation in 2025
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, p...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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34:55
Analysing global market dynamics in the current geopolitical environment
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 chan...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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35:51
Preview: Simcorp November US Election Special
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 Clear...
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Season 4
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4:18
Triparty repo, marriage broking & advanced treasury operations
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 oppo...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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30:21
CSD innovation, capital efficiency & balance sheet netting with Clearstream and Eurex
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, Clearstre...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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46:38
Collateral management special: Margins, optimisations & innovations
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 un...
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52:19
Season 4 Premiere: ISLA Special - the 2025 Industry Leader Outlook
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 ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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58:14
Clearstream adds central bank money settlement for uncleared triparty repo
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 tripar...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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49:24
GFF Podcast episode 9: ETF Securities Lending and Product Innovation
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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48:35
The future of AI in securities lending, repo and market infrastructure
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. T...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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54:01
GFF Summit Live: 2024 Outlook with Industry Leaders - What Lies Ahead?
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 oper...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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53:46
Year-End Special: Repo Markets, Excess Liquidity, ECB policy & Predictions for 2024
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 expe...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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49:47
Securities Lending Special: Meet the ISF Global Investor Best-in-Class 2023 Winners
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 fe...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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42:37
SIBOS Debrief: Behind the Headlines with Marton Szigeti and Marcus Austin
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 w...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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53:45
Fostering New African Repo Markets with David Escoffier & the COP26 Liquidity and Sustainability Facility
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 bur...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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55:20
Exploring CCMS - the Canadian Collateral Management System with Clearstream & TMX CDS
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 Cl...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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47:24
Leverage the Future Potential of ECMS with Clearstream & Vermeg
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).<...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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47:51
Thriving in a Changing World - GFF Summit 2023 Preview
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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42:13
Review of 2022 & New Collateral Initiatives for 2023
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 A...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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45:37
Sustainable Repo Special
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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39:18
GFF 2022 Highlights
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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37:48
Accelerate Your Journey - The 2022 GFF Summit Preview Special
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 to...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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43:51
Central Bank Digital Currencies & Digital Transformation in the Finance Industry - with Steve Jacoby
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 curr...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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39:34