The FS Club Podcast

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 Jonny Fry. Jonny is co-founder and CEO of TeamBlockch...

Share schemes expert David Craddock will demonstrate the nuts and bolts of setting up and running an Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) plan. The EMI was introduced in the Finance Act 2000, alongside the Share Incentive Plan. It is a tax favoured plan aimed at younger and smaller companies who want to attract, reward, and retain skilled staff and as a discretionary approved share scheme it has...

This webinar provided an opportunity to catch up with developments in financial services in Montréal. Background Robust talent in Finance and IT Globally recognized as a machine learning and AI hub Stable G7 location with a distinct cost advantage above are just a few examples of the advantages that Montréal presents as a leading international financial centre. During this webinar, we focused on t...

In this seminar, Dr Iain Clacher examined the advances in artificial intelligence and how the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence could revolutionise pensions. As well as whirlwind tour of what AI is and cutting edge AI innovations, specific applications will be presented. The talk covered challenges and posed the question as to how realistic this future is. Speaker: Iain Clacher, Assoc...

Henry Tillman, an acknowledged expert on China’s Belt Road Initiative shared his thoughts. Henry is well-known for being well ahead of most analysts on Chinese economics. Henry Tillman has had a 35+ year international banking career, with ExCo positions at Barclays and ABN Amro and a NED role at Wells Fargo EMEA. In 2003, he formed Grisons Peak LLP, a UK based merchant bank, focussed on UK/Tech pa...

Background: Following the release of his book, ‘Stop The Rot: Reframing Corporate Governance For Directors and Politicians’ in 2017, Bob has been speaking with directors and politicians in eight countries and recently presented to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Corporate Governance on 11 March 2020 at Westminster. In this webinar Bob reflected on these experiences and discussed what he beli...

Nur-Sultan established its new financial centre, Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC), in July 2018. Almost two years on, we spotlight latest developments and plans in Nur-Sultan and Kazakhstan.   The webinar heard from Professor Dr Alexander Van de Putte, Chairman of Corporate Governance & Stewardship and Chief Strategy Officer, Astana International Financial Centre, Baur Bektemi...

Hear from two Emerging Market Investment Professionals as they discuss their top industry challenges and the future opportunities for emerging economies as they see it.   Speakers:   Eric Anderson, Managing Partner & Head Of Investment Solutions, Milltrust International LLP. Mr. Anderson is Senior Portfolio Manager on the Global Emerging Markets Strategies and Head of Investment Solu...

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 Patrick L Young. Patrick has many interests, but Exch...

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 George Littlejohn, Senior Adviser, Chartered I...

The journey to monetary gold and silver will traverse through the end of fiat money and financial markets. Alasdair explains why central banks are committed increasingly to debasing their currencies as a means of funding government deficits and in the hope they can prevent a contraction of business activity so that tax income will be maintained.   Government bonds are wildly overvalued due to...

The Employee Share Ownership Centre, Esop Centre, is a non-profit, subscription-based organisation which draws from over 30 years of experience to inform, lobby and research in the interest of developing all forms of broad-based employee share ownership plans in the UK and Europe. The Centre works with governments, the European Commission, businesses and employee organisations to build widespread...

With the release of our much-anticipated GFCI 27 and GGFI 5 we do a deep-dive into the numbers supporting the index.  Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5

Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5 In 2018, Tim authored the report, ‘Get Smart About Scandals: Past Lessons For Future Finance’. The report informs you of the basic tricks that fraudsters, conmen, and the incompetent have used, over many centuries and offers recommendations based on policy, proc...

Interested in watching our webinars live, or taking part in the production of our research? Join our community at: https://bit.ly/3sXPpb5 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 27th edition of the index, produced in partnership with the China Development I...

Sponsored by the Mava Foundation, and researched and published by Z/Yen, the fifth 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 24 March 2020 at 08:30 UK time.  The report, assembled by combining the views of financial pro...