The inaugural ICMA Secondary Market Forum will bring together leading experts from the European fixed income market, representing banks and broker-dealers, investors and asset managers, as well as trading venues and technology providers.

The forum will be an opportunity to hear, and participate in, discussions on the critical issues facing the European bond markets and the key drivers of evolving market structure. Issues and topics covered will include MiFID II/R implementation and its impact, the unwinding of ECB quantitative easing, the practical implications of Brexit, developments in technology and electronic trading, as well as the rapidly evolving economic and geopolitical landscape.

Keynote speakers:
 

• Robert Ophèle, Chairman, Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) on “The Importance of developing European bond markets as part of CMU”
• Imene Rahmouni-Rousseau, Director of Markets, Banque de France on “Evolving market functioning in view of technology and the normalisation of monetary policies”