The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/31cyybY Michael asserts that despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JufV4G Speakers: Dr Dionysios Demetis is a Senior Lecturer at the Business School of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom and an active research member of the Centre for Systems Studies. He holds a PhD in Anti-Money Laundering and Information Systems from the London School of Economics, a Masters from the LSE in Information Systems. He has a ba...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JwyvsP Many countries have adopted or have started to draft laws which restrict the transfer of certain data outside of the jurisdiction. The recent CJEU decision invalidating certain EU to US data transfers demonstrates how privacy and data protection laws can impact on your global technology and data strategies. With many organisations leveraging the...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FYnL4x The gravity of the shift to cloud is palpable for financial services. Organizations are balancing customer and security demands. Those who do it well are able to differentiate and excel, leaving those who don’t far behind. Expanded development and access to best practices is giving rise to the question, “what’s possible for fintech?” But moving...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3eCkviS The UK is a global FinTech leader and a top destination for investment into the sector, setting the pace for innovation in financial services across the globe. Covid-19 has presented the sector with challenges, but also many opportunities, thanks to an acceleration in the pace of digitisation. FinTech is now one of the fastest growing sectors in...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3ED3n7f It’s proven that an engaged workforce outperforms a disengaged workforce. Research tells us that an company with an engaged workforce is 21% more profitable. How do you create and maintain the type of culture and environment that employees will wish to experience? For financial services executives a key consideration is understanding not only wh...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32wiu5K Speakers: Dr Anthony H Cordesman is the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS . During his time at CSIS, Cordesman has been director of the Gulf Net Assessment Project and the Gulf in Transition Study, as well as principal investigator of the CSIS Homeland Defense Project. He has led studies on national missile defense, asymmetric warfare a...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Hr7zsy Speakers: Michael Grant first entered the technology field in the flight simulation industry. He then spent 25 years’ working in a variety of international marketing and corporate communications roles at director and vice-president level within six global IT companies. During this period he lived and worked in Australia, the Republic of Ireland...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EGs7M8 The second in the Long Lessons series of webinars, looking into what the religions of the book can teach modern finance. Christian teachings in the Old & New Testament have long encouraged the importance of honesty, good stewardship and generosity, and as asserted in Proverbs 13:11, dishonest money dwindles away . In this webinar, we will be...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32OILvE Banking has been around for centuries to encourage trade, finance, business, commerce and economic prosperity. Yet, in recent years, banking came to stand for shareholder return. And that seemed about it. Due to the singular focus on shareholder return, banks behave badly ripping off customers with unnecessary products and even falsifying accoun...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FLhokH Digital transformation affects all aspects of a business’s operations, including contracts, internal documentation and employment relationships. The covid-19 pandemic has heightened the need for contactless and remote contracting, as a result of which businesses are turning to digital contracting and electronic signatures. Using the appropriate...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3mNQWj7 There are many innovative fintech organisations in the UK. Successful growth however requires a combination of factors. It requires an ecosystem that offers access to talent, investment, support from local and national government and, of course, the opportunities to sell services to financial services institutions. This session will focus on how...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32QvMcJ The South African Chamber of Commerce (UK) in association with Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli & Christopher Hayward CC, Sheriffs of the City of London present at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) and Alderman John Garbutt JP, High Sheriff of Greater London Invite you to an online screening of the film followed by an interactive di...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qzHxNb Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities are significantly different technologies. The webinar will review these differences and where these technologies stand today. Focus will be given to the challenges and techniques of replicating real world experiences in VR, the role profoundly immersive VR is playing now, and where we are heading. In partic...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3EJNNqq Share valuation is a key step in the design and implementation of an employee share scheme for an unquoted company. Tax or fiscal valuations in the UK are subject to special rules which have evolved over time out of a combination of case law and legislation. Whether a valuation is acceptable for tax purposes is ultimately a matter for HMRC. HMRC...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/31cmQ0X It’s time to get serious about the green crime threat to the environment, business and security. In addition to environmental crime and wildlife trafficking, green crime also includes the flouting of regulations designed to prevent harm to the environment. As such, it is closely linked to corruption, organized crime and money-laundering. It impa...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jzlmz9 Functional programmers have long claimed that languages such as Haskell and O'Caml allow one to write code more quickly and more reliably. Widespread uptake of functional programming among the financial community supports that claim, and this talk will examine a few cases. Speaker: Philip Wadler is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at th...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qDdDYf In this webinar, Anita and Palvinder seek to: Put the incoming UK operational resilience regime in context and provide a view of its key elements; Give a flavor of BOE/PRA/FCA expectations; and Highlight why this framework is multidisciplinary and requires a change in perspective. Speakers: Anita Millar is a risk and public policy professional w...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/32IKdzH Herbie's Alma Mater Reuters has a proud history of pushing technical boundaries to their limits to build unique global products with high standards for availability, speed, accuracy and, latterly, openness. In the early days, they had to use in-house developed technology building their own hardware and operating systems. They kept up with the cu...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jy0fgE Recent, current, and even expected global lockdown’s have forced the business world to test whether widespread remote work is possible, and whether employees can adapt to working from home effectively. Despite overall positive uptake, certain adaptive measures have needed to be considered by global companies and across industries. Among the chal...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qDA7bF Z/Yen conducts an irregular series of short webinars, CommunityZ Chest, featuring people from its various communities and clubs, viz. technology, financial services, civil society, and business. These webinars provide an opportunity to meet people from the wider CommunityZ, to share ideas, and to make connections. This CommunityZ Chest features...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3JxUL5s The proliferation of challenger banks and banking services providers (i.e. fintechs that do not own their own banking licence) is given us mixed feelings: on the one hand, the excitement about innovation, change & better choice for customers, and on the other a healthy dose of scepticism – do we actually need that many offerings, and are the...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FK46Fe Climate finance is driven by policy but how do you deal with policy risk? Join Julian Richardson in this webinar as he shares his thoughts and ideas. Speaker: Julian Richardson is full time CEO of Parhelion Underwriting , with 19 years’ experience in climate finance and 25 years’ experience in the re/insurance sector. He is a recognized innovato...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3Jwb6HR This webinar features Sir Roger Gifford , Chair of the UK Green Finance Institute and past Lord Mayor of the City of London. Roger will share his thoughts on GFI’s work, focussing on practical ways for changing the way we live and consume, and how the institute is supporting the race to transition the global economy towards a less carbon-intensi...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3n7637x Intelligence officers discern the truth... Looking through the eyes of one of Britain's most senior ex-intelligence officers, Professor Sir David Omand's, How Spies Think shows how the big decisions in your life will be easier to make when you apply the same frameworks used by British intelligence. In everyday life, you are faced with contradict...