The FS Club Podcast

This webinar focussed on developments in Casablanca Finance City, which has established itself as an African financial and business hub and leading African financial centre. We learnt about how Casablanca is making waves and how to do business in Africa. About Casablanca Finance City: Recognised as the leading financial centre in Africa, and partner of the largest financial centers, CFC has built...

S8 is an international forum of business minds and diplomats, consisting of 8+ delegations from some of the world's most competitive small nations like Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Founded by James Breiden, our goal is international economic cooperation under improved policies, and we are combatting the fallacy that bigger is better for nationhood. The tit...

Nearly all activity involves a payment. As consumers seek digital convenience, there is an explosion of innovation making the competitive landscape more vibrant than ever before. But there is an expectation that payments will be easy to make and affordable as well as secure and protected from fraud. P20 members believe that these issues are non-competitive and to deliver them requires collaboratio...

Covid—19 has been a crash course in ripple effects, exposing where resilience, and more, has been lost in supply chains, health systems, and credit systems. Things seem brittle, but there are unparalleled opportunities to ‘innovate out’ towards a more robust human and economic environment. Covid-19 presents a challenge to executives: roll back to default patterns out of expedience, if you can? Or...

Overview: Mental health treatment options are limited during the pandemic but some resources are available. Video and telephone allow some treatment to continue, but this remains labour intensive and unscalable. Telepsychiatry is not yet sufficiently accepted to be able to fill the gap significantly, but it can, and should. The Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), as well as SDQplus,...

Contact-tracing apps on mobile phones have been a key element of plans to get societies back to "normal" in the face of Covid-19. The promise of automatically identifying who may be at risk of contracting Covid-19 is attractive, but effective use of such apps faces a host of barriers. Privacy risks have been at the forefront, since any centralised solution that automatically reports contacts to he...

Background: Leading financial and technology firms in the financial services arena is hard enough in 'normal' times. It's even harder during unprecedented times of high uncertainty such as a pandemic. In this webinar, Toby Corballis looks at tools that can help leaders of Financial and Technical firms lead their organisations during, and post, the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaker:  Toby Corballis i...

Despite extensive warnings, Covid-19 has revealed both governments and businesses to be financially as well as medically unprepared for the risk of pandemic. Many firms are in extreme financial distress. Few business interruption insurance policies cover pandemic risks (with complaints about the reluctance of insurers to pay on these policies and claims being pursued through the courts). We need t...

For as long as banks have been operating, they have been accumulating data and looking for ways to manage it, understand it and use it to enhance their business. With continuous data growth and tough regulations to meet, the road isn’t easy and simply having a Chief Data Officer in place doesn’t mean that all that data insight is suddenly available and easy to access. Join Automated Intelligence a...

There has been a significant amount of research looking at decision-making in pensions. However, the vast majority of this work has focused on individuals e.g. asset allocation in DC pensions. Given trustees make decisions that influence the retirement outcomes of millions, understanding biases in their decision-making is essential, given the disproportionate impact that biased decisions could hav...

A Danish saying runs, “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”. Yet people continue to make such predictions, three year plans, five year plans, even twenty year plans. In keeping with tradition, in 2000 Gresham College hosted a series of events on London in the 21st century looking ahead to 2020, helpfully collated together in a 90 page booklet by the Worshipful Company...

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 Tim Ward, the CEO of the Quoted Companies Alliance, t...

This webinar provided a focus on developments in Xi'an, the capital of China's Shaanxi Province and a developing financial hub in central China. Xi’an is an emerging financial centre on the world stage. We heard about Xi’an’s role in the Chinese economy and its plans for the development of financial services, particularly its aspiration to be a Silk Road financial centre. Xi’an is home to a major...

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 feature representation from the following professions: Accountancy Legal Actuarial And will be chaired by Alderman &a...

Share scheme expert David Craddock will follow up his introduction to the Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) plan with a selection of case studies to give insight into the practicalities of setting up and running an EMI plan. The EMI was introduced in the Finance Act 2000, alongside the Share Incentive Plan. It is a tax-advantaged plan aimed at younger and smaller companies who want to attract,...

In Safe Hands? The Future Of Financial Services, an original report by SAMI Consulting and Z/Yen in 2012, asked whether the Washington Consensus might break. In 2020 we perceive that this is happening faster than we expected. In 2020, for the first time in recent history, we are facing a period in which global population starts to decline. In 2020, many of the current Financial Services institutio...

The last five years has seen the first steps to integrate climate issues in to the global financial system by policy makers, regulators, banks and investors. As President of global climate negotiations in 2020 the UK government was planning to push for deeper and faster financial reforms this year. With the Glasgow Summit now postponed to 2021, and the global economy experiencing its largest ever...

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 Richard Burge. Richard has been the chief executive o...

This webinar featured a discussion with Professor Fan Gang, President of China Development Institute, and Independent Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank, interviewed by Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group. Covid-19 hit China first, and hard. China’s GDP contracted by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020 and projections for the year are of a signifi...

David will cover the EU Institutional regulatory reactions to the COVID-19 crisis, covering banking, fund management and insurers. Speaker: Dr David P Doyle is known across Europe as a leading expert on EU financial market regulation. A former diplomat with over 20 years of service on mainland Europe and now acts as an EU Policy Advisor between Brussels, London and Paris, specialising in EU Financ...

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? Are big oil’s fortunes in terminal decline? What tools will we require to build a sustainable low carbon future? And how will all of this play out in COP26? Speaker: Sean Kidney is CEO of th...

Background: Douglas and Michael McWilliams launched the Cebr report on the economic impact of the Belt & Road Initiative in Beijing last May and followed it by driving all the way back from Beijing to Paris, participating in the world’s toughest endurance rally and becoming one of only 21 out of 106 entrants to complete the rally entirely under their own steam. The feat was chronicled in the b...

Speaker: Often told that Oxford TRIZ gives her one of the most interesting jobs in the world, probably explains why Karen has done nothing but TRIZ for over 20 years - helping different companies solve their own most intractable problems just by following logical steps and adding TRIZ to their other toolkits. Karen studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, and has an MBA from London Busi...

Robert Rubinstein delivers his fascinating talk on his experiences of Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) and its integration with ESG into the culture and strategy of international corporate business and investment company. Speaker: Robert Rubinstein is the Chairman and Founding Partner of TBLI Group Holdings. Mr. Rubinstein has been instrumental in championing Sustainable and IMPACT investment d...

This webinar focused on developments in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, India’s first International Financial Services Centre - a new international financial gateway of India. We heard about the latest developments in GIFT City and future plans for the development of GIFT City as a international financial services hub connecting India with the world. Dipesh Shah, Head of GIFT International...