The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mvlMNl The eighth 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 130 sources, us...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HDcxmr A global debate is in full swing about when and where we should work and it's playing out in organisations of all sizes across the world. Who has the power to decide? Who wins and who loses out in different time / space configurations? Why do we work like this anyway? In the rapid move to remote working companies have largely done a "lift and sh...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qAn4Yt When working with NLP, there are two key AI techniques that can be used to extract insight and understanding from unstructured language data: symbolic and machine learning. Symbolic is a knowledge-based approach, leveraging knowledge graphs, linguistic feature engines, and reasoning engines. Machine Learning is an inference-based approach using...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HoYqRg Background: Employee share schemes offer employees the opportunity to buy shares in the business they work for. Owning part of a business offers a great incentive for employees to contribute to the success of the business and remain loyal to the business. There are “approved” and "unapproved" employee share schemes, this references HRMC’s view o...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/31geVjq The imminent threat of climate change requires the financial sector to play a crucial role in the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. In this webinar, BCS Consulting will provide an overview of climate change and the role financial institutions can play; the drivers of risk and opportunity and key industry initiatives, trends, and regulatio...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FW38WF Society is beset with human engendered climate and ecosystem issues, which are approaching existential. Solutions for such are sought, and from the experience with renewable energy development, such solutions are instituted far more readily if they are profitable. Halophytes - salt plants grown on cheap land (deserts and wastelands) using cheap...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pBk3Ia Warren Mosler is known for his writings on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a description of the way fiat money is originated and utilized in modern economies. His previously unorthodox views have now gained a substantial following among financial professionals and academics along with participants in Internet discussion groups. In this webinar, Wa...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sL2c3y The Global Financial Centres Index has been tracking the development of the world’s financial centres since 2007 and is the authoritative guide to financial centre success. In this webinar, Z/Yen will formally launch the 30th edition of the index. We are partnering for this launch with Busan Metropolitan City and Busan Finance Center to bring a...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FNf8tu Investing is a people business; but sadly, people lie. Most investment professionals think that the correct way to deal with this problem is to trust their instincts, or to examine body language. These are pan cultural fictions that do not work. After exhaustive testing, science concludes that people are only able to discern lies 54% of the time...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EGktBt There are over 500 All Party Parliamentary Groups, including 130 country groups ranging from the Channel Islands to Azerbaijan. They cover everything from aerospace to wrestling to jazz appreciation, but they are not without controversy. This webinar will unpick how they operate and what part they play in parliamentary life. Speaker: Anthony Bel...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eGhmyw Deforestation is a significant problem for the world – accelerating climate change and threatening the natural capital base that underpins the economic strength of a number of countries. A Deforestation-Linked Sovereign Bond (DLSB) can help countries with valuable state-owned forests to fund their transition to a sustainable economy. A DLSB woul...

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/32ublmt Background: Employee share ownership has the greatest impact on company productivity and performance when participation rates are high, but a major challenge currently facing employee share plans is the changing nature of the labour market. The rise of the gig economy, outsourcing and the demise of a “job for life” have served to diminish access to share...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sLo12Y What is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth? The source code for capital is law, a social resource that is used to create private wealth. By coding critical legal attributes onto the assets of their clients, attorneys for well-paying clients ensure that they are equipped with stronge...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sIt301 We will explore the dictum “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” from perspectives of both the scientific method and modern social/political discourse. In assessing such claims, it often is necessary to reconcile and combine information from both objective and subjective sources. In theory, this can be handled elegantly through t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HmWN6F Why do we stop growing, live for 100 years and sleep 8 hours a day? Why do people, and almost all companies, die whereas cities keep growing as life continues to accelerate. Is this sustainable? And how are these related to innovation, wealth creation, “singularities” and social networks? These are among the questions Geoffrey West will discuss...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pDwLG9 Sandbox technology provides corporations an easy way to integrate third-party suppliers into their technology stack. Find out how governments and financial institutions are implementing sandboxes and Digital Twins to enable rapid experimentation and accelerate digital transformation through improved data agility. Matt Allan, Founder at Sandpit,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jxbczk Henry Tapper has written an exemplar summary of Dr Con Keating's webinar. Read it here . With the over-arching UK legislation now in place and regulations expected shortly, the webinar will discuss the design and operation of collective pension schemes which are fair, efficient and sustainable. The webinar will discuss a novel form of risk-shari...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jtvqtr Background: 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 . Panellists will include Julie Shepherd, Director of Share Plans at The Sage Group plc, Arran Sim...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3ESjjmx In this webinar, Grace Blakeley, leading economics commentator and author of The Corona Crash , theorises about the epoch-making changes that the coronavirus brings in its wake. We are living through a unique moment in history. The pandemic has caused the deepest global recession since the Second World War. Meanwhile the human cost is reflected...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sGRZFj Biodiversity loss is moving up the agenda of governments, civil society and financial institutions. Billed as the ‘Year of Biodiversity’ because of the biodiversity COP in Kunming, 2020 saw biodiversity in the headlines for other reasons as a type of disease made more likely by nature loss emerged to cause a global pandemic. As efforts intensify...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zbCC8O While most AI technologies aim to replace humans with algorithms, Swarm AI is a unique method that amplifies the combined intelligence of human teams, enabling significantly more accurate predictions, forecasts, estimations and decisions. In recent studies performed in collaboration with MIT and Oxford University, financial teams using Swarm AI...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3ezSXdZ Nick will share insights for finding, developing and supporting excellent leadership teams, drawn from years of experience resolving conflict in family businesses and helping private equity partners assess and turn around leaders of portfolio companies. Speaker: Nick Mayhew is the founder and managing director of Alembic Strategy , a specialist...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JFfJQj Imagine a world in which everyone has a stake in the great tech firms that serve them each day, and where dividends are gradually replacing wages to provide regular income for everyone, as work becomes scarcer as a result of automation? Imagine a world where every young person not only has a small inheritance with which to start their adult life...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qC3nQ8 In this webinar, Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult - the UK's authority on advanced digital technologies - discusses how innovation in the UK needs to evolve for the 21st century. What impact has covid-19 had on speeding up innovation and adoption of cutting edge technologies like virtual and augmented reality, 5G, the internet of things, a...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32yWx5T What are the live issues in central clearing and what is just noise? And why is it important to know the difference? In a world that is (in the technical sense) over-collateralised, the CCP stands out as the only bit of the market that reduces strain on the system. Even so, there are limits to what any CCP can do; and pretending that there aren’...