The FS Club Podcast

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HsPZV0 In this talk, Chiara Rustici explains how the risks of taking the financial services sector outside of the EU legal framework could be mitigated by adherence to a so-called Art 40 Code of Conduct. The requirements, binding nature and enforcement obligations of such a professional Code on the whole sector are illustrated via the example of The Ci...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pI6Flw This webinar will explore the controls and technologies that compliance professionals can employ to detect and prevent financial crime conducted through Cryptocurrency exchange. You will learn: The controls specialists in this area are employing What the future of KYC and AML for Cryptocurrency looks like How AI can support these processes by su...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3FIYZFj The sixth 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 launch took place via webinar on 27 October 2020 at 09:00 GMT. The report, assembled by combining the views of financial professionals from around the world,...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3pEJeJW 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/3eEaPEL Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Many of these cities are dealing with the effects of climate change such as heat stress, air pollution and flooding. The high density of paved surfaces, roads and buildings further increase these effects. Trees, rain-gardens, green roofs and walls, and other vegetation help to cool cities on hot...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3HnNEe1 Employee share schemes expert David Craddock will present strategies and techniques that have proved by experience to increase employee take-up, thereby securing involvement in the employee share scheme for employee motivation purposes with the consequential impact on company productivity. When all the legal work has been completed the success o...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3t1ZW8j Machine learning is becoming an essential technology, no matter the industry. Data is now the heart and soul of business, and comprehending it effectively is crucial to making decisions. For that reason, financial executives need to insert themselves into the conversation about the right data to use, applying their institutional knowledge while...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3qGdByM Speakers: Sharon Constançon is a Chartered Director, Chartered Secretary and a fellow of ICSA, a fellow of the IoD, a member of CISI International Committee, Chairman of the South African Chamber of Commerce UK and a member of the WCCSA Membership Committee. As CEO of Genius Methods and Genius Boards, Sharon offers robust, behavior-focused board...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3417EEY Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) provide an attractive new exit route for retiring entrepreneurs. William Franklin of the share scheme specialists PettFranklin explains how they actually work and how they differ from Management Buyouts (MBOs). Speaker: William Franklin is an experienced share schemes practitioner and a Chartered Accountant who i...

Labuan IBFC is an international business and financial centre located in the heart of Asia Pacific. Labuan prides itself on its broad business offering and robust legal framework enforced by its regulator, Labuan Financial Services Authority (Labuan FSA). The centre is keen on positioning itself as a key strategic location of choice for international businesses looking to tap into the Asian market...

The recent global Coronavirus pandemic has had a significant effect on the way organised criminals are operating and the crimes they are committing. Our webinar will provide an up-to-date picture on these important developments in order to inform your current work.  Operational Intelligence and Threat Analysis Management Consultants The Technium Global [TTG], will discuss the importance attac...

In 1561, Thomas Gresham provided “bridging finance” and sanctuary in Antwerp to a young travelling spendthrift, Thomas Cecil; William Cecil’s son. “I see, in the end,” said the disapproving father in one of his letters:  “my sone shall come home lyke a spendyng sott, mete to kepe a tenniss court.”  This seems to be the only mention of tennis to be found in any biography of Thomas Gresham...

Share plan and employee incentives specialists Fleur Benns and Lynette Jacobs will discuss the use of employee share plans amid the economic fall out of the continuing pandemic. Their talk will give an insight into institutional investors’ thoughts on share plans and how the views of institutional investors impact on their operation. Speakers:   Lynette Jacobs is a partner in the Employment &...

The first in a series of webinars, looking into what the religions of the book can teach modern finance.  We want to develop an idea from anthropologists, the idea that perhaps the Bible leading to the Koran codifies best practice in finance in pre-industrial societies. One can assert that there are some good basic ideas in the good books: • know your counterparty; • deals must be for mutual...

Monetary and fiscal constraints have been shattered all round the world. Suddenly, governments who claimed there were no magic money trees have shed their inhibitions. European nations are amongst the leaders in using this new botany and forgetting how they used to ridicule modern monetary theory. Policy-makers at the core of the EU are exploring the implications of these broken constraints in one...

Background: In a reprise of the well-received 4 June webinar, YBS Share Plans’ Darren Smith will discuss the share plan administration, legal and tax burning questions with expert guests on his virtual sofa. He will be asking colleague Bryony Padgett-Jones, Deloitte’s Katie Stephens and EY’s Suzannah Crookes what they are seeing in the market and what the future holds. Speakers: Darren Smith has w...

San Francisco has been rising as a financial centre for some years. From 15th in 2010, San Francisco has risen to 8th place in Global Financial Centres Index 27 (March 2020). Part of this is attributable to the increasing power of technology companies in payment markets, but quite a bit is equally due to San Francisco’s increasing mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity and its rising import...

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.  The 28th edition of the index, produced in partnership with the China Development Institute in Shenzhen, was launched on 25 September 2020 through a webinar organised between London and Seoul, with the support of the Seou...

It is critical that governments apply a meaningful carbon price. But if we are to move money at the pace and scale required to deal with climate risk, governments also need to reconsider the entire architecture of markets. This means focussing a climate lens on prudential regulation, listing rules, accounting standards, investment standards, valuation conventions, governance codes, and stewardship...

Chicago Quantum have recently been publishing some interesting results, e.g. “ Portfolio Optimization of 40 Stocks Using the D-Wave Quantum Annealer ”. They’ve investigated the use of quantum computers for building a portfolio out of a universe of US listed, liquid equities that contains an optimal set of stocks. Starting from historical market data, they examined formulations on the D-Wave 2000Q...

The employment-related securities legislation contains essential tools for employee share scheme development and implementation. Far from limiting employee share scheme activity, a proper understanding of the employment-related securities legislation opens a vista of tax planning opportunities for practical application.  Building upon the meaning of the concept, “employment-related securities...

The Financial Services Group Of Livery Companies (FSG) Task Force supports the Sheriffs of the City of London in their express desire to strengthen and simplify Anti-Money Laundering (AML) within the UK. As part of the taskforce’s series of webinars exploring AML, this webinar will be exploring AML Technology.  The mandatory compliance requirements set out and enforced by the FCA and other re...

Whilst the movement to work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a great success in many ways, it has also led to a weakening of the physical connection, nonverbal feedback, and social recognition crucial to building resilience within leadership and teams. In this webinar, Anuka Gazara-Anthony and Toby Corballis provide insights into methods leaders can use to increase resilience within...

Patents are the most powerful of intellectual property rights providing a monopoly for products, processes and other inventive concepts. Whilst there are no surprises amongst the top patent filers such as Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm, a number of financial institutions, including Bank of America and Amex, are increasing their patent filings each year. Innovators within these institutions aren’t wo...

In this webinar, David will provide an update on the EUs position and institutional regulatory reactions to the Covid-19 crisis and Brexit, covering banking, fund management and insurers.  David Doyle is known across Europe as a leading expert on EU financial services regulation and long-standing speaker at the Financial Services Club. A former diplomat with over 20 years of service on mainla...