Making Sense

Shaped by diverse markets, languages, currencies and regulatory frameworks, Europe presents a complex landscape for businesses operating across the region. Understanding that landscape is essential for companies managing treasury, liquidity and cross-border payments. In this episode of EMEA in Conversation, Stew Cofer, EMEA head of Payments Specialists, Commercialization and Embedded Finance and Alison Livesey, head of UK and Europe Subsidiary Banking, examine the forces shaping payments across Europe today. From evolving regulatory environments to the realities of operating across multiple markets, the discussion explores how businesses are managing financial flows, approaching treasury strategy and supporting cross-border commerce across the region. 

 

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In this episode of Making Sense, Shiny Das, from the Vida Portfolio Solutions product team, sits down with Gustav Vogel, head of Portfolio Trading in Europe, Middle East, and Asia, and Marcus Imbert, head of Portfolio Solutions in North America. Together they explore the rise of portfolio trading and how it is reshaping credit markets globally. They compare how portfolio trading differs across EMEA and North America, from pre-trade pricing and transparency frameworks to the role of local market structure and regulation. The conversation also looks at how ETFs and ETF primary trading support liquidity and risk transfer, the growing demand for thematic and proxy baskets, and the expansion of portfolio trading into cross-currency, cross-asset and bespoke solutions during periods of market volatility.

 

This episode was recorded on March 16, 2026. 

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In this episode of Making Sense, Chuka Umunna sits down with Dr. Sarah Kapnick, global head of Climate Advisory, and James Janoskey, global co‑head of Natural Resources Investment Banking, to unpack how clean technologies are reshaping the global energy landscape. They explore surging electricity demand from AI data centers, the modernization of aging grids, the nuclear renaissance and the rise of long‑duration storage beyond lithium. The conversation also explores the intersection of energy security and geopolitics — how has the ongoing situation in the Middle East amplified concerns around grid resilience?

This episode was recorded on March 16, 2026.

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In this episode, Sian Goh, partner and head of Research and Strategy at Dymon Asia, sits down with Eloise Goulder, head of the Data Assets and Alpha Group at J.P. Morgan, to explore evolving market dynamics in Asia, from supply chains and AI to the retail investor and Asian consumer influences. They then discuss how Dymon Asia, an Asia-based multi-strategy fund, bridges bottom-up local market knowledge and micro analysis with macro developments to analyse the global investment universe.

 

Shownotes:

https://www.dymonasia.com/

 

This episode was recoded on February 12, 2026. 

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In this episode of J.P. Morgan's Making Sense, Fawaz Chaudhry, CIO of Horizon Global Partners (the equity thematic team at Fulcrum Asset Management) sits down with Eloise Goulder, head of the Data Assets and Alpha Group. They unpack why value is shifting from software to chips — and why the next three to four years will be key for semis, foundries and tools — as the AI infrastructure buildout accelerates.  They also explore the implications of the recent inflationary shocks, from the global pandemic to the European land war to the global trade war, and what this means for bonds and commodities, including gold and silver.

 

Shownotes:

https://www.horizon.global/

https://fulcrumasset.com/

A Macroeconomic Approach to Investing with Juan Antolin Diaz, Chief Research Officer, Fulcrum  – Feb ‘24

 

This episode was recoded on February 5, 2026.

The podcast's views do not necessarily reflect those of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co or its affiliates (together “J.P. Morgan) and are not from J.P. Morgan’s Research Department. They do not constitute recommendations or offers to buy or sell securities. Intended for institutional and professional investors, not retail use, it is for informational purposes only. Products and services mentioned may not suit all investors or be available in all jurisdictions. J.P. Morgan may make markets and trade in discussed securities and asset classes. Visit www.jpmorgan.com/disclosures/salesandtradingdisclaimer for more disclaimers and regulatory disclosures. External speakers' opinions are personal and not J.P. Morgan's views.

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