In this episode, listen as two leaders share their stories that can guide all entrepreneurs. BMO’s Nadim Hirji had the privilege of sitting down with George L. Pla and Fatima Djelmane Rodriguez, two leaders who are advocates for the Latino entrepreneurial community.

How will an altered political landscape in Washington affect the U.S. fundamental outlook? Camilla Sutton, BMO Capital Markets Managing Director, Head of Equity Research, Canada & UK, moderated a discussion with BMO experts across macroeconomics, financial markets, and rates to understand the current and future implications of the 2024 election. Listen to Doug Porter, Managing Director and Chief Economist; Brian Belski, Chief Investment Strategist; and Ian Lyngen, Managing Director and Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, to learn more.

In this episode from BMO Equity Research IN Tune Podcast, Camilla Sutton, MD and Head of Canadian and UK Equity Research at BMO, sat down with five BMO Capital Markets experts who discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election and how they see market impacts unfolding. Guests include Sal Guatieri, BMO’s Sr. Economist, and Brian Belski, BMO’s Chief Investment Strategist, as well as three of our Equity Research Analysts — Colin Hamilton, who focuses on metal commodities, Randy Ollenberger on Oil and Gas, and Doug Morrow on ESG.

Businesses of all stripes are exploring opportunities to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve complex customer problems. Most companies know that AI is important, but they’re not exactly sure how it could make their operations more efficient or how to keep their business safe.

In this episode, Maria Salinas, CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, sits down with Martha de la Torre, CEO of EC Hispanic Media and co-founder of El Clasificado, to discuss a remarkable success story that highlights the perseverance and resilience of the Latino community.

In this episode of Markets Plus, Warren Estey, Head of Investment Banking at BMO Capital Markets, sits down with Eric Benedict, Co-Head, Global Equity Capital Markets and Ian Lyngen, Head of U.S. Rates Strategy, to discuss the state of the equity markets, ECM activity, Fed policy, the economic outlook and much more.

In this episode of Markets Plus, host Dr. Laurence B. Mussio, Special Advisor to the CEO, BMO Financial Group and Chair of the Long Run Institute, sits down with Professor John D. Turner, co-author of the best-selling book “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles,” to focus on connecting the present to the past through financial cycles.

Lili Gil Valletta never envisioned becoming an entrepreneur, but when she couldn’t find a company that could deliver the type of business intelligence she was looking for, she decided to build it herself. More than a decade later, Culture+ Group is one of the fastest-growing Latino-owned businesses in the U.S. 

Darrel Hackett, U.S. Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group, and Martin Cabrera, CEO and Founder of Cabrera Capital, sat down to discuss Cabrera’s journey as an entrepreneur and what he thinks the Latino community can do to succeed.

In part one of our Index500 series, Eduardo Tobon, Latino Segment Head, BMO, sits down with Jorge Ferraez, Publisher of Latino Leaders Magazine, to discuss the partnership, how the Index500 came to be, and more.

In part two of our Index500 series, Alan Tannenbaum, CEO of BMO Capital Markets, sits down with Marcelo Claure, globally recognized entrepreneur, investor, and Founder & CEO of Claure Group, to discuss the remarkable achievements of both Marcelo and Latino-owned businesses.

This episode from BMO's IN Tune podcast focuses on how the AI/data center build out is contributing to a new era of electricity demand.

In our latest Markets Plus episode, host Warren Estey, Head of Investment Banking, sat down with Kevin Sherlock, Head of Leveraged Finance and Private Capital and Mike George, Head of the Financial Sponsors Group, to discuss the Leveraged Finance markets broadly and Financial Sponsor activity in particular in our Q2 investment banking podcast.

This episode dives into the benefits of energy-efficient upgrades to help homeowners make informed choices that can reduce energy costs, improve comfort and contribute to a healthier environment. Host: Ashish Arora, Regional Vice President of Specialized Sales Group, BMO. Guests: Paul Doucet, Principal Architect at Sustainable; Sarah Grant, Certified Energy Auditor, and Founder of Goldfinch Energy; Lori Zucchiatti O'Neill and Michael O'Neill, homeowners that have retrofitted their home.

In this episode from BMO’s IN Tune Podcast, host Camilla Sutton is joined by Kelly Bania, Joel Jackson, Doug Morrow and Andrew Strelzik to discuss the takeaways from BMO’s 19th Annual Farm to Market Conference and stretches across the food and agriculture value chain.

Alan Tannenbaum, CEO of BMO Capital Markets, recently joined a panel at the Milken Global Conference 2024 in Los Angeles to discuss the M&A market, moderated by Bloomberg Television’s Romaine Bostick.

The economic outlook remains complicated. On the one hand, the U.S. and Canadian economies have exhibited remarkable resilience. On the other hand, inflation remains stubbornly high despite central banks’ best efforts, and that’s delaying the start of expected interest rate cuts. In such a fluid situation, what are corporate treasury departments to do?

Our experts share their take on how the key elements of this year’s budget may affect the economic outlook over the next 12 months, and an overview of the most significant personal and small business income tax measures announced in the budget.  

The macro environment is opaque and has many crosswinds, including the evolving Central bank policy, uneven global economic growth, geopolitical tension, and the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Yet stocks saw solid gains in the first quarter. Hear from Warren Estey in Markets Plus to learn why and what he sees developing across markets throughout the rest of the year. 

Learn why a BloombergNEF analyst is not so worried about the slowdown in global electric vehicle (EV) sales.

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for the week of March 18th, 2024.

In this episode from Sustainability Leaders, Jigar Shah, Director, Loan Programs Office, U.S. Department of Energy, shares what younger clean energy companies should understand about LPO and how equity investors view its diligence process.

The energy transition has brought transformation to the mining sector. In this episode from Sustainability Leaders, Colin Hamilton, Commodities Analyst, BMO Capital Markets, sat down with the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)’s President and CEO Rohitesh Dhawan to discuss what the industry needs to do to embrace nature-positive mining.

In this episode from BMO Equity Research Metal Matters Podcast, Colin Hamilton, Commodities Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, discusses key takeaways from the recent Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town, and developing trends in the industry.

In this episode, Robert Kavcic, a Senior Economist from the BMO Economics team, joins Ben Reitzes to share his insights on the outlook for the Canadian housing market, reaction to last week’s Bank of Canada policy announcement, and his thoughts on the upcoming provincial budget season.

Michael Torrance sat down with Kevin Murphy, Chief Science State Officer at NASA, and Raghu Ganti, Principal Research Scientist at IBM Research, to discuss how data collection strategies are helping to develop and improve geospatial models, creating opportunities to better understand environmental risks. 

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for week of January 16th, 2024.

Listen to part two of our two-part series around artificial intelligence featuring Rosa van den Beemt, director of stewardship in Responsible Investment at BMO Global Asset Management, and Ebrahim Bagheri, professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

“The excitement around artificial intelligence comes from the fact that the machines now don't need humans' explicit instructions, but rather they look at past historical patterns based on historical data, and learn how to do those things themselves.” Listen to part one of our two-part series with Rosa van den Beemt, Director of Stewardship in Responsible Investment at BMO Global Asset Management, and Ebrahim Bagheri, professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly known as Ryerson.

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for the week of November 27th, 2023.

On this episode from Views from the North, host Ben Reitzes is joined by Darren Campbell, BMO’s head of FICC investor sales Canada, to discuss the ongoing volatility in fixed income markets, what risk assets are telling us, whether central bank are really done with hikes and his favourite trade ideas as we head into calendar year end.

In this episode from Views from the North, host Ben Reitzes is joined by Doug Porter, BMO’s Chief Economist, to discuss the Bank of Canada’s decision to stay on hold, his upcoming piece on Canadian productivity, along with the potential financial implications.

This episode examines how we got here and the factors that will continue to drive the Canadian economy for the next 12 months.

This episode from Views from the North focuses on next week’s Bank of Canada policy announcement and the likely end of rate hikes, the macro backdrop, and why the economic outlook is very subdued. Host Ben Reitzes is joined by Joel Prussky, BMO’s OIS and cross-currency trader.

In this episode from Macro Horizons, Ian Lyngen, Ben Jeffery, and Vail Hartman bring you their thoughts on the U.S. Rates market for the upcoming week of October 10th, 2023.

BMO’s Deputy Chief Economist provided his perspective on the current economic conditions impacting the technology sectors both in Canada and US.

Where is the M&A environment headed? Listen to Warren Estey in our latest Markets Plus Minutes episode to hear why there’s optimism around the M&A market moving in a positive direction.

Hastening the energy transition requires a holistic view of the economy and stronger collaboration and coordination across industries to build more momentum toward a net-zero economy. Those were some of the main takeaways from the Green and Clean: Redefining Finance for a Sustainable Future panel at the International Economic Forum of the Americas Conference in Montreal 2023.

Fadi Chamoun and John Stephenson join this edition to discuss their recent report on FedEx and its well-received cost reduction plan.

By the end of June, Canada was already experiencing its worst wildfire season in recorded history. In an effort to address the impact these events are having on the country, George Sutherland, Senior Advisor, Climate Change & Sustainability with the BMO Climate Institute, sat down with Mike Flannigan, the B.C. Innovation Research Chair in Predictive Services, Emergency Management and Fire Science at Thompson Rivers University, and Ray Ault, Director of Prevention and Mitigation with FireSmart Canada. Listen now. Links: FireSmoke Canada FireSmart Canada Canadian Wildland Fire Information System

In this episode from BMO's Views From The North podcast, Sam Buckley, Head of BMO’s Government of Canada trading desk, joins Benjamin Reitzes to discuss the Bank of Canada’s latest rate hike and how much more we can expect, the extreme inversion in the Canadian yield curve, how the second half of the year could evolve and his favourite trade ideas.

In this episode from BMO Equity Research IN Tune Podcast, we are joined by BMO Capital Markets’ CEO & Group Head Dan Barclay as he moderates a discussion on the takeaways from BMO’s 18th Annual Farm to Market Conference across the food and agriculture value chain.

While the overall banking system remains resilient, inflation, higher interest rates, and a soft economy have created operational challenges for some small and mid-size banks. So, BMO hosted a digital client with leading experts to discuss.

Chief Executive Officer at BMO Financial Group, Darryl White, addresses the audience at the US-Canada Summit, hosted by BMO and the geopolitical risk advisory firm Eurasia Group, to highlight the changing dynamics of trade, food, energy security, the environment (and more) in North America as the world order experiences its greatest shifts in decades. 

In this episode from Views from the North, host Ben Reitzes is joined by Chris D’Onofrio, a trader on BMO’s Canadian swap trading desk, to discuss the outlook for monetary policy after the recent Bank of Canada minutes, swap spreads, an update on the shift from CDOR to CORRA, and his favorite trade ideas.

The argument being put forward is that SVB management was overly concerned with DE&I, ESG policies and sustainable finance, all of which distracted them from focusing on their core mission. Doug Morrow and his team disagree with this assessment. Here’s why.

After the release of the 2023 Canadian Federal Budget, BMO Chief Economist, Doug Porter discussed key elements that may affect the economic outlook over the coming months. BMO Private Wealth tax expert, John Waters, provided an overview of significant personal and small business income tax measures announced in the budget.

The North American economy continues to send conflicting signals. When will rising interest rates start impacting the economy, and will higher borrowing costs and continued rising inflation tip North America into a recession? To address these questions, BMO convened a panel to explore how this unprecedented economic moment may unfold.