GFF Podcast

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.