The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Iq5KwB The Metaverse is a collective virtual shared space, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet. Although the Metaverse is still evolving, companies and entrepreneurs at the bleeding edge of technology are g...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Ilz875   The last twelve months have been a testing period for many in the business community in the UK, not least because of the continued repercussions of Covid-19 and Brexit. For Chinese businesses operating in this environment, escalating geopolitical headwinds have further added to the challenges. Despite this, they have demonstrated signific...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zSEp39   Across our already troubled world, there are big population changes afoot, with dramatically falling birth rates in some countries and rising in others, but all with increasing lifespans – virus and obesity notwithstanding – meaning changes in “old-age dependency ratio,” and a radical new world order in 80 years’ time. This brings challen...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3q2Vbck Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) was globally accepted in the mid 1990's. PKI can be thought of the Authentication, Encryption and Decryption of all digital devices and all data. Think modern day Enigma or Lorenz encryption machines as used in the Second World War that Alan Turing and William Tutte cracked the codes on and you're thinking on the...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3yXMkeX As you age, you tend to look at new new things with an old pair of eyes. What have these got in common? Faxes, telex, mobile phones, online shopping, streaming video, internet-enabled devices, machine learning (AI), 3D printing, IBM punchcards, PCs, minicomputers, microcomputers, internet for trading, cloud, blockchain, DeFi... Yes they're all m...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3st8vsp Dr Robert Barnes is a lifelong champion of listening to customers and innovating in partnership to achieve greater market efficiencies on a global scale. As Group Head of Securities Trading at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), he is responsible for the Capital Markets Securities Trading business globally for London Stock Exchange plc, includin...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qqw1TY This webinar presentation will highlight Birkbeck’s history and its importance to working Londoners in its near 200 year history. The history is important to understand in the context of more contemporary policy challenges such as how the London workforce can be reskilled after the covid pandemic, the emerging Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR),...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pGxdDJ Following the last great recession of 2008 there was a dramatic increase in suicides in North America and Europe: an extra 10,000 people in those regions killed themselves between 2008 and 2010 and the latest estimates from the experts is that the Corona crisis could result in 50,000 extra suicides worldwide. While the media and public health of...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mwQVQm We've misplaced the building blocks of the cosmos - and particle physicists like Claire Malone are on a mission to find them with the aid of the ATLAS detector at CERN . However, as she explains, some of the most crucial measurements performed by this ground breaking experiment are enhanced by thinking laterally about the technologies we have av...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3evPEVt We are a society that increasingly demands instant gratification and minimum waiting time for many processes that are part of our everyday lives. Now with the need for remote interaction foisted on much of the global population by covid-19, organisations are under increased pressure to facilitate secure digital onboarding of customers to service...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32GOUtO The world is changing and the effect on people is only just starting to be felt: it is hard to make sense. Patricia and Gill’s new book New Shoots provides evidence of the forces at work to help people make sense of the changes. It builds on our view that people are essentially decent and want to be happy. It explores levers for change. It inclu...

Speaker: Richard Harvey is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of East Anglia , where he studies problems in AI often with applications in security. He is also the Worshipful Company of IT Professor at Gresham College London, where he is required to give public lectures on issues in IT. He has been involved in several business start-ups and has Chaired a successful Venture Fund Inves...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3swoC8l For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politics; Brexit; and the rise of Asian influence, the EU is seen as a declining power on the world stage. Columbia Law professor Anu Bradford argues the opposite in her important new book The Brussels Effe...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Hdm5E6 In this webinar, we launched the fourth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 4). 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 attune th...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mwsq5H Consequent upon the Brexit withdrawal agreement, from 1 January 2023 the CE mark on products will no longer be allowed. New products coming onto the market will instead have to be labelled with the UK Conformity Assessment mark (UKCA mark). This apparently simple change could place a heavy burden on UK product testing capabilities and result in...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32utMH5 With under 6 months to go until new FCA regulations governing Digital Operational Resilience come into force (March 2022), and with the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) on the horizon in 2023, can you be certain your complex IT estate is up to scratch? Join Cloudsoft 's Vicky Glynn and Alasdair Hodge, as they discuss the complexity...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FqQdvf A recent report from Entrust found that 91% of employees are in favour of a hybrid work environment but cite challenges to security and productivity. Leaders cited the security of home internet connections, leaked sensitive company information and cyberattacks from bad actors as their top security concerns — all of which are closely tied to data...

Find our more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FrcTvJ Background: In our next newspad review webinar, panellists including Lyn Colloff, Company Secretary at Wincanton, Charlotte Fleck, Associate Director Tax & Legal, Deloitte and Colin Kendon, Partner at Bird & Bird will discuss the burning issues in employee share ownership, picked from the September, October and November editions of “ It’...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sHu091 Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine). For decades, unde...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3svtJ8V The decisive questions of the 21st century can only be addressed by new knowledge and new ideas coming from leading research institutions. The most significant transnational threats to global economic and political stability are in areas of intense academic research: covid-19, climate change, emerging technologies, cyber operations/intrusions, t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mvmY3h One eternal constant is Change. We witness such changes everywhere in our lives, yet some changes are thrust upon us, and we readily become compliant. Yet others which can be just as impactful go under the radar. One such area of change is the jobs market. At a junior level, large corporates now rely on technology to present to and pre-select fu...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qlNgpx In this webinar, we examine the role of discount rates in IFRS19 (Employee Benefits) in the reporting of defined benefit pension schemes. We consider the fundamental properties of discount rates and uncertainty and go on to demonstrate that the approach in the current standard produces liability values which are counterfactual to the true liabil...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FqhzSw There is fast-growing interest in taxonomies that categorise and describe the skills that individuals deploy at work, to enable digital applications that engage with skills and to facilitate reskilling and upskilling required by a fast-changing job environment. Maury Shenk explores the emerging landscape of traditional and new skills taxonomies,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EE1ya6 This major Cityforum project looks at what can be done to make life safer and more secure in the face of unprecedented security and environmental challenges. Focused less on analysis of the problems and more on hard-headed discussion of what can be done to deal with them. This opening webinar will take place on the eve of the COP26 conference in...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eiMnbX Mathematical models help us understand and predict the future evolution of complex systems like the covid-19 pandemic, aspects of the economy, or the earth's climate. But there are dangers of becoming trapped in Model Land: over-confidence in modelled outputs typically leads to underestimation of real-world risk. I will discuss two possible quan...