The FS Club Podcast

Beyond Investing operates at the cusp of impact investing and focuses on an under-regarded population, exploited animals, and has identified that this practice holds back the progress of humanity by making it all but impossible to achieve many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A veteran of financial markets for 35 years, the founder Claire Smith develops investment products that “divest fro...

A Board is made up of people – Directors who take the role with the intention of delivering value to the organisation. These Directors are each unique in their personality, behaviour, experience, skills and competence. Together, as a group, a collective dynamic materialises that has a positive or often negative outcome. Simply, decisions take longer, some topics are taboo, personal agendas influen...

Post-crisis reforms following the 2008-10 financial crisis massively changed the structure of markets. Perhaps the most important structural change was the increased concentration of clearing of almost all assets and derivatives into Central Counterparties (CCPs). Very little consideration was given at the time to narrow categories of high quality liquid assets required by CCPs for initial margin,...

Over the years City A.M. evolved into a trusted media brand built on delivering insightful business and finance news, and increasingly lifestyle content. Today we are a collection of media assets, a curated dialogue with our business audience and affluent consumers.  From social, to programmatic, to events and content, our City A.M. Media Group is built around reaching the right audience in t...

In rebuilding the global economy, we cannot afford to ignore the looming clouds of the climate crisis – has Covid-19 given governments and businesses valuable breathing space to reassess their economic models? Or with minds so heavily focused on tackling Covid-19, has this other crisis - the climate one - taken a bit of a back seat? With COP26 now postponed to November 2021, what will the new prio...

The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened globalisation’s long crisis, as risks proliferate across borders as rapidly as opportunities. We face an emergency with dimensions that are unfolding simultaneously but at different speeds: public health (2+ years), economic (a decade), polarisation and insecurity (a generation or more). Other threats – climate change in particular – have not gone away. We have e...

Background: The employee share trust is the most tax-efficient and commercially effective vehicle for operating an internal market in the shares of a private company. It allows employees in private companies to sell their shares to a willing market for value. The webinar explains, through the use of diagrams, how the employee share trust works in practice to support the operation of employee share...

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 CommunitZ features Brendan May. Brendan is the Founder and Chairman of Ro...

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, in this webinar we are delighted to welcome Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology at Cardiff University.  Professor Lev...

Background: Equiniti’s Graham Bull and Jennifer Rudman will discuss how we can ensure all-employee plans (Sharesave and SIP) continue to provide benefits to today’s workforce. They will look at how popular these tax advantaged share schemes are now, what the current challenges are and how to engage employees to make the plans successful.   Speakers:  Graham Bull is Managing Director of E...

Tokyo has been one of the leading financial centres in the world for many years. In the 27th Global Financial Centres Index, published in March 2020, Tokyo rose to third place in the global rankings. In this webinar, we heard from FinCity Tokyo about the current position of Tokyo and its plans for continued development. Hiroshi Nakaso, Chairman, FinCity. Tokyo, Keiichi Aritomo, Executive Director,...

As the UK enters a critical period of trade negotiations with the EU and the USA, now is a good time to explore the important role played by standards and accreditation in facilitating international trade. Matt Gantley, CEO of the UK’s National Accreditation Body UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) explains how UK plc is able to plug into the international network of Mutual Recognition Arr...

The post-quantum cryptography (“PQC”) problem will threaten the security of the world’s computer networks when large-scale quantum computers become available. The problem exists because such quantum computers would be able to break the security of widely-used public key cryptography, which allows remote parties to communicate securely and authenticate transactions and data without sharing a secret...

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 Vinay Gupta. Vinay is Founder and CEO of Matter...

Since 2009, Busan Metropolitan City has been developing a financial hub specialising in maritime finance and derivatives. With its strategic location in the centre of an economic bloc in South East Korea and the crossroads of a global logistics route, Busan envisions growing into an international financial city in Northeast Asia. Join us to hear more about Busan and its plans for future developmen...

Absent investment income and capital gains, has the global insurance industry made a profit over the past 15 years? What is the true extent of under reserving? Turnover amongst Insurer's shareholders is greater than ever. The advent of computer driven trading, options and ETF's results in companies and shareholders not knowing each other. insurers cannot know who their shareholders are from day to...

This fascinating and highly-participative webinar pits the audience against three ethical dilemmas. The webinar begins with our two panellists setting out some of the wide divergences they’ve found over the years in ethical decision-making and ethical standards-setting. These differences are often due to cultural factors, at a societal or a firm level. These differences are often due to different...

Making the most of our assets in the art and science of decision-making  “We all have a head, a heart and a gut. Faced with a decision, any combination of them could come into play . . . Becoming more conscious of how and when to use each of them might be the key that unlocks your potential to make better decisions.”  Our decisions shape our lives. Whether at home or at work, with others...

Alan Hughes of KPMG’s International healthcare team will review the online care sector, in conversation with Professor Michael Mainelli. The lack of testing and PPE combined with high death rates increased the use of remote care globally during covid-19, redirecting care volumes from frontline care staff. Airlines, retail, and financial services moved various services online many years ago but hea...

Join Ripple SVP of Customer Success Marcus Treacher and Z/Yen Chairman Michael Mainelli on a wide-ranging discussion of how payments are changing - recent innovations including blockchain, geopolitical happenings and evolving trends for both wholesale and retail payments. Speaker: Marcus Treacher is SVP of Customer Success at Ripple. Marcus has over 30 years of experience in transaction banking an...

In June 2018, the AIFC created a Green Finance Centre in Nur-Sultan to promote the development of green finance in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian region. Its objective is to bring new innovative financial instruments to the market, attract sustainable investments to finance local companies, support international initiatives in green finance, and develop expertise in this field. In this webinar,...

Covid-19 and its economic effects are not going away anytime soon. They will reconfigure our system, ranging from geopolitical relations to the power of national governments, from company accounts to working patterns. Karina Robinson analyses the new paradigm and figures out what this means for the City and Boards Of Directors. Speaker: Karina Robinson is the CEO of Robinson Hambro Ltd, a CEO/Chai...

The Financial Services sector was roundly vilified after the 2007 Crash. With COVID-19, governments have taken the lead and the present failure of FS to really step up to proactively offer credit solutions that ease the disproportionate burden on medium and smaller businesses and, of course, the vast swathes of working people, might be owing to a gradual erosion of purpose over two decades or more...

As leaders, how do we build the right environments—physically, digitally, and mentally—for our teams to achieve both collaborative and focus-time potential? As teams, how do we express and negotiate our shared working practices? How do we explicitly build in time for the social interaction and micro-moments of connection that happen very differently in a virtual setting? As an individual, how do I...

YBS Share Plans’ Darren Smith will discuss the burning questions of the day with share plan expert guests on his virtual sofa. He will be asking colleague Bryony Padgett-Jones about the changes she has seen in employee share plan administration since the lock-down and finding out from VG’s Ross Crick and Tapestry’s Emma Parker, what the most prevalent questions in the current economic crisis are....