The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HrXoEn Privacy Enhancing Technologies, or PET’s, are a class of Advanced Cryptography that will enable data collaborations without the need to share or expose sensitive data. We believe that Confidential Collaborative Computing is the next major development that will take place in the growth cycle of decentralised computing services. It will enable org...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qDBV4e Cryptocurrency is the biggest challenge and opportunity ever seen by the incumbent financial system. Crypto has built a parallel financial world independent from existing financial markets. As a non-sovereign currency based solely on maths and algorithms, the cryptocurrency and decentralized finance protocols built on blockchain have been a game...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JtPFan The island of Guernsey is a leading global finance centre with a respected reputation. Guernsey has more than 50 years’ experience in providing specialist wealth management services. Guernsey is a secure and stable jurisdiction of substance. Guernsey is a global funds specialist and a leader in private equity and alternatives, and Europe’s leadi...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JpDiwl Meritocracy is a hot topic, central to books within the last year from Michael Sandel and Gary Hamel (no, they didn't write together but maybe we could sponsor them?). Up to now, analyses of 'glass ceilings' have treated them as bugs, not features, of meritocracy: the consequence of bad ideology or unconscious bias. Douglas Board argues the reve...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pEhF3m In 2016, The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a report on the UK’s retail banking market . The report found that older, larger banks don’t have to compete hard enough to gain customers’ business, while newer banks find it difficult to access the market and grow. One of the CMA’s recommendations to tackle this problem was open ba...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32LnseC The British Virgin Islands has well-developed offshore financial services and prides itself on an innovative regulatory regime and business-friendly environment. In this webinar, we will hear more about the BVI’s financial services and recent developments from Simon Gray, Head of Business Development and Marketing at BVI Finance. Join us to lear...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3ezuNk3 Busan has developed strongly as a financial centre in recent years. With a focus on maritime finance and derivatives, and at the centre of an area of industrial and technology development, it is well-placed to act as a hub for global logistics. Busan has a special status as a blockchain regulation-free zone, and has well-developed technology off...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pHaIia As the major US stock indices have continued to reach new record highs in recent years, many commentators and market participants have discussed similarities between today and the early 1970s stock market bubble known as the Nifty Fifty. However, few people either remember the market of that period or have studied it in any detail. This webinar...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sGIiGQ How was lockdown love for you? In his new book, The Mental Vaccine for Covid-19: Coping With Corona - A Guide To Pandemic Psychology , Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud explains why our seduction skills were tested by the virus and how we can learn to be better at the psychological life skill of igniting desire in others - which is as useful in the bo...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eDxOQq Covid-19 has tossed us into a digital world, in many spheres - including finance. But we forget the human factor at our peril. As we return to offices we need to recognize the vital insights that anthropology can offer to finance and businesses as they try to navigate the future Speaker: Gillian Tett serves as the chair of the editorial board an...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pFhUv3 Fraud is often mistakenly treated as a homogeneous phenomenon, whereas it actually consists of many different stocks and flows of activities and our responses to them. Drawing on work conducted for the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council and the Australian Institute of Criminology, Professor Mike Levi from Cardiff University ex...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JvUFeC The impact investing sector is growing rapidly, and the pandemic and accelerating climate crisis has shone a light on the way society’s negative impacts – for example, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss and poor governance – pose systemic risks to the broader economy. Sarah Gordon will explore how mobilising large pools of capital to contribute...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pFnvl3 Since 2009, Busan Metropolitan City has been developing a financial hub specialising in maritime finance and derivatives. With its strategic location in the center of the southeast economic block of Korea and the crossroads of a global logistics route, Busan envisions growing into an international financial city in Northeast Asia. In this webina...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qDOgFR Over 75% of the S&P 500 index value relates to intangible assets yet insurance only covers 5% of this. Join this presentation to hear from the Head Of Innovation at Lloyd’s of London to find out how they have been working with underwriters to close the gap. The talk will give an overview of innovation at Lloyd’s and then deep dive into how r...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mIodvS In the last few years, the Chinese capital market has accelerated its opening-up pace. As a leading financial infrastructure in China, the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has established co-operation relations with 53 overseas counterparts, many of which are European exchanges. The co-operation programs between these exchanges and the SSE have con...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32z6HDq In this webinar, we launched the third edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 3). The SCI is designed to track the development of technologh 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 the...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zbrKYB The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips; no DNA, no covid vaccine. Basic research is an essential preco...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/31ghLF6 Speakers: David Buchler, Chairman of Buchler Phillips , is a Chartered Accountant and Insolvency Practitioner, with some 35 years of experience in the field of corporate turnaround. He was a Partner at Arthur Andersen prior to becoming a Founding Partner of Buchler Phillips, one of the UK’s leading financial recovery and restructuring specialists,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sIzQH3 In this webinar, Alan Hughes will be considering covid's long term impacts on digital healthcare: Has AI in healthcare arrived? From Big Data to Real Data Has the care workforce challenge been solved? Regulatory and policy moves underway Speaker: Alan Hughes brings 20 years of international healthcare advisory, working alongside policymakers on...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/33Zk0xm In early 2020, as Covid-19 swept through Western Europe, stock markets tanked, the mergers & acquisitions (M&A) market froze and corporate valuations plummeted. Promptly, governments started imposing lock-downs and intervening massively through unheard-of financial support packages to prevent the total collapse of Western economies. As t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3sFTnrH The future of the financial services industry – centred in the City of London – matters enormously to the health of the United Kingdom’s economy. The Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) has few provisions on financial services and the UK now appears set to drive a wedge between EU and British rules so it can “benefit” from its new-found Brexi...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JwxKjm “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called guessing what was at the other side of the hill ." The Duke of Wellington. The Library of Mistakes exists to further the study of human decision making under uncertainty through the study of history-...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HmDGcT This webinar will consider key legal and regulatory developments in the area of blockchain technology around the world. The talk will include a discussion of the regulatory response by several notable jurisdictions, key litigation cases, and also the legal issues and challenges that are raised by this highly novel technology as well as methods t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eAZANj Despite all the talk, the international community is abandoning the commitment to cap the increase in the average global temperature to 1.5°C (IPCC, 2018). One critical reason is that while all of humanity will be affected by climate change, someday, the initial impact is highly differentiated. Higher temperatures will first become insufferable...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zi8LM7 Background : The use of Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) by private companies has seen a considerable rise in 2020 and is expected to continue in 2021. A well-run employee-owned company could benefit from a longer-term business strategy and not have to consider the conventional exit routes of a trade-sale or a flotation, with the EOT giving the...