The FS Club Podcast

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3d5s98j In July 2011, a tanker carrying a million barrels of crude oil, insured in London, was attacked by armed raiders off the coast of Yemen. Initially, Somali pirates were blamed. But the truth turned out to be much stranger and more sinister. The book and FT 2022 long list finalist, Dead in the Water, by Matthew Campbell and Kit Ch...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3KWQl9I Karan Jain discusses the advantages of leveraging networks of third-party technologies to accelerate innovation. Financial institutions can leverage partnerships to expedite the time to market, increase technical capabilities and user experience, and enable the ability to scale. Partnerships will be critical to financial service...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3QgGdcB Given the speed of transformation of the investment landscape, together with the huge advisory industry that has appeared almost overnight, there are major concerns for ‘green and ESG-washing’ in the sector and it is unsurprising that regulators sought to act. But Dr Sloan has significant concerns with the costs of the EU’s bure...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3TzxqWe Did the old office environment deliver the best way of working? Have we discovered that WFH delivered some positives that we didn’t have before? Have we learned new techniques, routines, rhythms etc that we would like to keep but don’t know how, or will dwindle into memory? Are there things about being back in the office that we...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Cwcvg Private equity is known for a ruthless focus on returns, but these days you struggle to find a private equity group that isn’t talking about sustainability. Responsible investment policies, sustainability due diligence and net zero strategies are becoming part of the common vernacular. Regulatory pressures have forced this issue...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3AQ5K8k For too long the natural world has been pillaged and depleted. But now what was only recently considered expendable wasteland is becoming recognised as a vast source of value providing services worth billions of pounds annually to the world economy by nurturing biodiversity, cleaning the air, sequestering carbon, delivering wate...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3dEwtLO The term “Digital Economy” refers to the use of information technologies in the production of goods and services, their financing, agreements, marketing, tracking, distribution, and consumption. Technology is creating new products, services and changing the way we do business, work and live. Digital, like the information economy...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3cahadg In our next newspad review webinar, Global Shares’ Darren Smith will chair a panel of share schemes experts for in depth discussion of their pick of articles featured in recent editions of “It’s Our Business”, newspad of the Esop Centre. Panellist: Cathy Wears. Of Counsel - Tax Department, CMS Cathy is an Of Counsel in the CMS E...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3bZdTO5 In this webinar Bob McDowall will discuss how anthropology and technology can be of mutual benefit in the future. Both anthropology and technology rely on study and analysis of human behaviour for their success and deployment. Behavioural aspects of adoption of technology will be of more importance in deployment of more sophisti...

Find our more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3PnTMXh Today, Seoul is more determined than ever to reach the milestone and capture the eyes of investors and institutions. In order to attract excellent global companies and investment capital, Seoul has officially launched ‘Invest Seoul’, the city’s Investment Promotion Agency. Its main goal is to help foreign investors find a succes...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3vZXPlO While less directly threatening in the public mind than ‘killer robots’, the use of AI in military decision-making presents key challenges as well as enormous advantages. Increasing human oversight over the technology itself will not prevent inadvertent (let alone intentional) misuse. The presenters argue that trust at all level...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3QDA0IA What does an Information Commissioner do exactly? In this information age, data is all around us. But who regulates what happens to our personal data? Who is there to protect us? This webinar focuses on the role of the Information Commissioner, presented by Paul Vane, Information Commissioner for Jersey. Paul will walk you through the main tasks...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3padbR8 Bangladesh has come such a long way since Henry Kissinger’s famous 1971 quip, "Bangladesh is a bottomless basket", and the 2014 World Bank, “corruption challenge”, remarks. Examples abound across the country and ultimately both were proven wrong. More recently, within its economic development progress, Bangladesh has been a star. During the peri...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zZyydS Bonds can be structured to help reverse specific environmental harms and could be a powerful tool in our efforts to restore the planet. For example, overfishing has been a leading driver of oceanic habitat degradation for decades, because fishing companies are financially incentivised to fish as much as they legally can. Similarly, deforestation...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3P1J60o OneBanks is pioneering a new concept in high street banking: leveraging open banking to enable customers of all banks to do their everyday banking transactions in a single location. Resulting from a backdrop of bank branch closures over the past decade, many communities have lost their access to convenient banking services with people at risk of...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zqoNnF We all know it’s important for success to look after our customers, but how do you do that in times of challenge? What the last two years have taught us is that at some point your business will face some form of crisis. It may be high growth pressure, cost base getting out of control, competition eating your lunch, capacity challenges, the fallo...

Find out more on our webiste: https://bit.ly/3OH9soc On 24 February 2022, life changed dramatically. Russia invaded Ukraine and that triggered a multi-lateral response unseen since WW2. International sanctions were and remain a key part of that response. This talk will give an overview of the UK sanctions response, identify key “problem” areas and conclude with suggested best practices.   Spe...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3PAIikb In this webinar, Dr Con Keating will cover his paper, examining the legal position of common elements of liability driven investment (LDI) for DB pension schemes. It concludes that there are significant risks, that their actions will be deemed ‘ultra vires’, for trustees and LDI investment managers arising from the use of borrowing, the use of d...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3PJtxv8  Busan is a major commercial and shipping hub in South Korea. In line with the Korean Government's aim of balanced growth across the nation, Busan is beginning a period of major infrastructure development, with the goal of raising substantial investment funds to finance this development, using public private partnership arrangements.  ...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3POrc2d  Islamic investing eschews a variety of sectors and activities, a process often referred to as negative screening. But it also seeks positive attributes surrounding financial sustainability, management integrity and social responsibility. Over decades the combination of these factors have contributed to the creation of portfolios demonstrat...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3PtLs9e As the nature of conflict changes, so too does its periodicity and duration. There have been many long, nearly forever, wars - The Reconquista, 774 years; Roman-Persian Wars, 681 years; The Germanic Wars, 588 years; Arab-Byzantine Wars, 400 years; The Ottoman Wars, 573 years; The Philippines Revolt, 377 years; Mexican Indian Wars, 414 years. Man...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3OlkWgV Purpose is a concept that has been confused and abused to the point where some are thinking of moving to something else. In this talk, Victoria will set out why she thinks purpose is a concept of profound significance for business and society, because it encapsulates and operationalised the paradigm shift happening at the heart of economics and...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3PkqDgA Professor Charles Goodhart was appointed to the Norman Sosnow Chair of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1985, until his retirement in 2002 when he became Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and awarded the CBE in 1997, for services to monetary economics....

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3PFwqgF The global financial industry is amid a wave of change. From the financial crisis in 2008, changes in technology, demand for sustainable finance, and the challenges and opportunities presented by the pandemic; all have required a collective response to shape a better future for the industry. Financial centres worldwide have been co-ordinating re...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3cjCvRl A regular speaker at the FS Club, David Doyle is back to give a mid-year update on the EU financial services regulatory agenda. David will cover the latest regulatory developments from Brussels, covering the EU bank prudential regime (Basel III), revisions to MiFID, AIFMD, the EU digital agenda (MICA, DORA) and the progress on the EU Sustainabil...