TONIC BOOM

TONIC BOOM

This is TONIC BOOM! A podcast series brought to you by Tonic, the consultancy dedicated to giving Financial Markets firms MORE...Join our host, our resident expert ninjas and special industry guests as we drop the mic on everything from margin, post-trade, treasury, risk, and compliance, to sustainability and the decentralised finance landscape - all on a global scale. Are you ready for a dose of industry tonic?

Episodes

July 22, 2025 19 mins
In Part 2 of our special series, host Emma Watson dives even deeper into the evolving
landscape of securities finance with Steve Lethaby and Andrew Turvey

From the transformation of market infrastructure to how fintechs are reengineering
workflows, this episode tackles the big themes shaping tomorrow’s market:

• Settlement efficiency, collateral mobility & interoperability: how are iCSDs
suppo...
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In this episode of TonicBoom!, host Emma Watson Tonic’s Securities Finance Lead is joined by industry experts Andrew Turvey (GLMX) and Steve Lethaby (Clearstream Banking) to unpack one of the most critical themes in today’s capital markets: driving efficiency in Securities Financing. 

From the evolution of repo markets post-GFC, to the ongoing digitization and regulatory pressures shaping today’s landscape, this episo...
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June 2, 2025 24 mins
In this episode, Tonic CEO Chris Watts is joined by Head of Collateral Philip Forkan and guests from HQLAx - Erica De Rosa and Martin O’Connell, to explore how distributed ledger technology (DLT) is reshaping the collateral landscape in global capital markets. 

Together they take a practical look at the inefficiencies facing today’s collateral ecosystem and how digital innovation is driving real improvements in mobili...
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    The latest episode of TonicBoom! is hosted by Philip Forkan, Tonic’s Head of Collateral, who was joined by Tonic’s head of post-trade, Philip Cook and our legal friends from D2LT Emma Wooldridge and Sydney Hassal.

    In this episode, the group addressed the SEC’s recent extension of clearing deadlines and what this could mean for market participants. The new compliance dates set for December 2026 (cash transactions) and ...
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    Our Tonic CEO Chris Watts and Head of Digital Steven Czarnota are joined by our friends at State Street, Greg Donovan (Vice President of Collateral Client Solutions) and Sam Edwards (Head of Collateral EMEA/APAC). 

    In this episode of TonicBoom!, we explore how digital is revolutionizing financial markets. As tokenization accelerates and native digital assets gain traction, institutions are rethinking how this impacts ...
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    Our Tonic CEO Chris Watts and Head of Digital Steven Czarnota are once again joined by our friends at State Street,  Greg Donovan (Vice President of Collateral Client Solutions) and Sam Edwards (Head of Collateral EMEA/APAC). 

    In this episode, we explore the transformative role of digital assets in collateral management. Industry experts discuss how tokenisation is reshaping the landscape of collateral, expanding liqu...
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    In the second episode of our Tonic Boom! UST Clearing series, our Industry Ninjas (SMEs!) zoom in on the different Access Models that in-scope firms will need to choose from and implement. 

    Our Tonic CEO Chris Watts and Head of Post-Trade Phil Cook are joined once more by our friends at State Street, including Jeff Sowell (Head of Financing Product) and Jordan Cobb Vice President, Secured Financing. 

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    In this inaugural episode of Tonic Boom!, we kick things off with a conversation dedicated to US Treasury Clearing (USTC), a truly monster reg initiative that will transform the UST industry operating model over the coming years. 

    The first in a series of episodes on the topic, Chris Watts (host and Tonic CEO) and Phil Cook (Head of Post-Trade at Tonic) focus on the foundations of UST clearing, joined by an impressive...
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    February 14, 2024 42 secs
    Find out what you can expect from this new podcast channel.
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