The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3nELsHw Sanctions are restrictive measures that can be put in place to fulfil a range of purposes, which are increasingly being used in political discourse and international relations especially since the advent of Russian’s invasion of Ukraine. In the UK, these include complying with UN and other international obligations, supporting foreign policy and...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3NxiQKG Large companies have social and investment responsibilities. Choices made today could lock us into carbon intensive pathways, or lead the world to achieve net zero and put the brakes on climate change. Carbon Emission Accounts and Datasets (CEADs.net) are key to helping companies and governments plan towards global carbon neutrality. Apart from...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3OjmbhK Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5  Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3OjmbhK  In this webinar, share schemes expert David Craddock will examine the effects of the current cost of living crisis on everyday lives together wi...

Find out more on out website: https://bit.ly/3Of1WBK Investors, Boards of Directors, and funders are recognizing the cost and risk of climate inaction, and the urgent need for mitigation and adaptation. Do your stakeholders care about sustainability, and why should you care? How can you reach them more effectively, and what does art have to do with it?  Despite increasingly dismal IPCC report...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3tSqaJZ Corruption is a term increasingly used in political discourse and international relations. But what does it really mean, and can understanding the world through the lens of corruption reveal anything new? This webinar will look across the world from Afghanistan to Ukraine, examining concepts such as state capture and strategic corruption, and di...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zPwo0N In aggregate, the average active asset manager fails to outperform its benchmark, says conventional wisdom. However, the data on which this conclusion is drawn is both highly biased and plainly misinterpreted. It also leads to a race to the bottom where cost of managing assets becomes the only criteria for the selection of a fund manager. We hav...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3b1JxcN This webinar will feature a discussion with Professor Fan Gang, President of China Development Institute, and Independent Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank, interviewed by Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group. With the aftermath of Covid-19, disruption to supply chains, inflationary pressures,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3aXZIb5 The role of data in sustainable finance has always been central. The trend towards sustainable investing is well documented, with assets under management having surged from $30.7 trillion in 2018 to $35.3 trillion in 2020, with over $500 billion flowing into ESG integrated funds in Europe in 2021. This trend is demanding increasing scrutiny to e...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3xtsVSO What do we imagine when we think of an eco-house? An insulated, solar-powered new-build? An old building recycled for a new use? City livery company, the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects (WCCA) supported by the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) plans to launch a competition to build a temporary pavilion in the heart of the City of...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zAiGi6 ‘Money’ comes from the Latin word Moneta, and the Romans also gave us many other monetary terms, like £sd. But their understanding of money seems very limited by modern standards. There was some awareness of the quantity theory of money and of the importance of liquidity. It’s also been thought that they made attempts to regulate the balance of...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3NvrBWw Each year Alan shares insights with us from the world of Digital care. This is his third Z/Yen visit and as we emerge from the impacts of covid his timely discussion includes:   Digital care overview commentary in a ‘post’ covid world Investment considerations and emerging themes Increasing prevalence of Ai and where consolidation might occ...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Q98ByS Everybody seems to be talking about gig work, but what is it, and how do we value it? This presentation will look at the human components of the global gig economy and put a value on such elements as staffing, consultancy, temporary and platform work.   Speaker:   Adam Pode is Head of Research for EMEA & APAC at Staffing Industry A...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3wWXVvr There is a ‘Commonwealth Advantage’. A Commonwealth country’s trade with another member is likely to be a third to a half more than with a non-member – so concluded an influential 2010 paper, “Trading Places: The ‘Commonwealth Effect’ Revisited” by Joanna Bennett, Paul Chappell, Howard Reed, and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, sponsored by the Royal...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3NClkI6 Tokenising Funds offers benefits to many participants in the value chain but may have a negative impact on others. During this webinar, Brian will provide an open view on the opportunity but also the numerous challenges the industry faces to transform from current state to a scaled future state required to realise these benefits. He will cover t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3MIiq4u The global pandemic did more than just overwhelm our public health resources, it also shut down economic activity and lead to major trading imbalances across the globe. In particular International trade and the container shipping sector saw demand issues and the imbalance lead to delays, increased freight costs and even congestion at a number of...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3wG6Jpx In this webinar, we launch the fifth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 5). The SCI is designed to track the development of technology and financial centres across the world in their support for and readiness for new technology applications.   Investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, media, academics, governments, and regulators can attun...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3LgwssJ   The chopstick, which is the tool with which over 1.8 billion people in East Asia – China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other South East Asian countries – eat their meals, embodies the qualities that make them successful: sharing, taking care of each other, offering food to the others, respect of elders, courtesy, manners, punctuality, comin...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3M5Han3  Have you ever bought or sold Bitcoin? Ethereum? Any other cryptocurrency? If yes - how many times have you wondered about forces defining the valuation of cryptocurrencies? Since cryptocurrencies are not supported by any centralized repository, their valuation is critically dependent on collective perceptions of their worth – and the subse...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/37nd4fH  Standards are like marmite – some love them, some hate them. In either case they, and the process to create them, are often not well understood and so their value can go underappreciated. In this session Victoria will explain why, in amongst humanity’s existential crises, she dedicated 5 years of voluntary time to chairing the process to c...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3wd65y8  It is said that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. The rapid change in the information technology landscape is underpinned by two other near certainties; the growth in compute power and commoditization. Understanding these forces can help us to get a handle on the future arc of technological change. In this talk, using r...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3MLOc03 The ninth edition of the Global Green Finance Index provides the world’s most authoritative measure of the performance of financial centres in delivering green finance services. The report, assembled by combining the views of financial professionals from around the world, with quantitative data commissioned and curated from over 140 sources, use...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EN2ZVF The global economy is 100% dependent on nature, but nature has been historically mis-valued, and its economic benefits inequitably distributed. Nature has surged from the margins of market consideration to become a significant factor in assessing physical and transition risk. This session will explore this development and its implications for th...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3L7QciZ In 2007 the world suffered the Global Financial Crisis. The most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. Citizens lost faith in the financial services and the ability of governments to protect their financial wellbeing. This presentation is based on a practitioner’s point of view and his experiences in implementing Operation...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3L9ny0S The UK fishing industry found itself thrust centre stage during the Brexit negotiations. Now the dust has settled, and the news cycle has moved on, how is the fishing industry doing post-Brexit? What can be done to nurture more ethical and sustainable fishing practices? And what role must finance play in order to effectively support the industry...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3KVxLhp Fasten your seat belts, being defrauded and blamed for it is coming for you! It appears the UK is at sixes and sevens in tackling cyber/digital crime on bank accounts with faster payments. There are few court convictions, and blaming bank account owners generally take the blame. Faster payment bank fraud, where the fraudster must have a bank acc...