The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/349w67j Working practices have been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. The end of lockdown may be in sight but the office environment has changed forever. Employers and Senior Managers need to know how these changes affect their legal rights and obligations. This is particularly so with respect to the specific challenges of the regulated environment...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FWwAfb For much of the twentieth century, London was the global centre for disposable latex condom production, and the London Rubber Company was the biggest and the most successful condom manufacturer ever to operate in Britain. Thanks to its historic distribution network, amplified wartime production, sophisticated and innovative production techniques...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32wbOoc In this webinar, we launched the second edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 2). 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/3eyzNVY Pundits (often with equity investments to sell) have been predicting the demise of the bond market for decades. Bond investment is often seen as the dowdy, less exciting sibling of the equity market. Yet, when executed properly, bond investing can perform well against equities in all but the most soaring equity bull markets. Will this always be...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HmYEZ9 Many systems using AI make remarkable claims of accuracy. Regularly you see claims of 95, 98 or even 99% accuracy. Yet, if this was the case then why are AI systems regularly breaking, why do you frequently need a new model and why are not all the data analysts and AI experts redundant. Also, why does frequently the user experience not live up t...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mDODiv Background: In this webinar, YBS Share Plans’ Darren Smith and guests Amanda Flint of Mercer, William Franklin of Pett Franklin and Peter Smith also of YBS Share Plans, will discuss in depth, articles of interest featured in recent editions of “It’s Our Business”, newspad of the Esop Centre. Speaker: Darren Smith, Corporate Relationship Manager,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JraumZ With the price of bitcoin breaking through $20,000 and heading into uncharted territory, private investors and institutions are now flocking to this new asset class that many were disparaging just a couple of years back. Why are cryptocurrencies and digital assets proving so popular in these times of global crisis and what does the future hold f...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pDmWbi The slowdown in economic growth that started around the turn of century was driven by demographic changes and a shift towards producing services. Those phenomena were a consequence of high living standards, and in the case of demographic change also of expanded opportunities for women to control their careers and family size. Slow growth isn’t s...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eChPlw Mutual and cooperative insurers are responsible for one-third of all insurance premiums in Europe. Their status belies their size: they range from some of the smallest to some of the largest European insurers, and with no external shareholders to satisfy, they are able to apply their profits to the benefit of their policyholders. As major stakeh...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JFDszR The year of the pandemic has also been the year of the young investor, with both established platforms and challenger apps seeing an upsurge in millennial customers. In her forthcoming book ‘Own It’, Iona Bain makes the case for why her generation can and must invest its way to a better future. She asks whether you can invest for your first home...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qG0eP6 David regularly kicks off the Financial Services Club annual events by updating us on the EU financial services regulatory agenda. This year will be no different, with David updating us on the effects of Brexit and Covid 19. David Doyle is known across Europe as a leading expert on EU financial services regulation and long-standing speaker at th...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Hpd6A1 Dubai International Financial Centre is the leading financial hub in the Middle East & Africa in the Global Financial Centres Index, and has a 15-year track record of facilitating trade and investment flows across the region, connecting local markets with the economies of Asia, Europe and the Americas. In this webinar, Salmaan Jaffery, Chief...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FEnUd0 Hybrid Working - providing a mix of home and office working - will be with us for the long-term. This presents a number of new challenges for leaders: How can leaders continue to effectively motivate and communicate with hybrid teams so that everyone feels equally connected to the organisation? How will the organisation design support the effect...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EHpoSy Technology, policy and capital are the they keys to achieve a transition to a low carbon economy. But both business leaders, policy makers and investors are facing increasing short term pressure. These pressures often materialize in impatient capital leading to a bad capital allocation (fossil fuels, derivatives, etc.). How could we encourage pa...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eFkLxG Making finance consistent with the delivery of a net-zero and resilient economy is the crucial third goal of the Paris Agreement. As the UK seeks to deliver its target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, a more systematic approach to financing is now needed. Net-zero is increasingly recognised as an important goal by leaders within the UK’s...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qFFcjx Increasingly issues are being raised around risks relating to data, which can have a significant impact on current and future valuations and liabilities. Due diligence assessments play a vital role in understanding potential risk, liability and reputational exposure coming out of a transaction. Understanding and assessing these risks involves a...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mN0ESJ In a hyper connected digital world identification becomes foundational for all that we do. This is frequently friction-filled, troublesome and insecure, characterized by hundreds of accounts and passwords, and undermined by a rising tide of identity fraud and data breaches. In this new world, Mastercard seeks to lead the creation of a collaborat...

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Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eBnLv0 The aim of the Share Valuation Worked Examples Group (WEG), a joint initiative with HMRC, is to improve understanding and reduce uncertainty for share valuations for employee share schemes. It follows the withdrawal of the HMRC non-statutory ITEPA Best Estimate and Post Transaction Valuation Check (PTVC) procedures by creating more Share Valuati...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EMKyOZ In this webinar, Edward Wild, founder of Wild Search , an executive search and advisory firm now in its 10th year, will share his experience of advising on non executive and trustee appointments over more than a decade. It will be useful to those either considering their first non executive role, or seeking to combine a number of such roles foll...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32RlgSQ Whatever the outcome of leaving the EU we will have new ways of trading, accounting for those trades and dealing with the additional paperwork. This jaunt through the outcomes and eventualities of trading with our neighbours will help you understand the impact of the new regimes and how to record and evidence the transactions. We will look at Ru...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qBlsxM The integration of China and the improvements in the workforce among the advanced economies produced a demographic ‘sweet spot’ that led to falling inflation and interest rates, steady growth and rising asset prices – an era that Mervyn King labelled the NICE (No Inflation Constant Expansion) years. The bad news was that debt and inequality with...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eU3sJD What would be today’s response, in a world with Covid-19 and Brexit, if we had a 2007-2010 style crash? Speaker: Nicolas Véron co-founded Bruegel in Brussels in 2002-05, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC in 2009, and is currently employed on equal terms by both organizations as a Senior Fellow. His resear...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qVrh9x This webinar looks at the evolution of the post-Brexit financial services regulatory landscape, with a key focus of what firms should expect in 2021 in terms of regulatory policy developments. This webinar will also look at issues relating to remuneration in the financial services sector. Speakers: Jeremy Edwards is a partner and the head of the...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3zeOTtf Estates and Infrastructure Exchange (EIX) was created to be the leading global exchange for Infrastructure, providing our clients with liquidity and pricing transparency. It focuses on operational resilience, affordability of Infrastructure, the deployment of new technology & data with world-class partners and delivering sustainability. As a...