The FS Club Podcast

We live in a world where money buys power and where companies exist to maximise shareholder value. Our speakers explore alternative business models with ‘Purpose’ at their core, as an essential component in delivering a world where outcomes are reflective of social as well as economic “good”.Annika Schneider, International Partnerships Lead at Purpose Economy, and Andrew Kaufmann, Founder of Time...

In this webinar, we launch the ninth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 9). The SCI is designed to track the development of technology and financial centres across the world in their support for and readiness for new technology applications. Investors, entrepreneurs, scientists, media, academics, governments, and regulators can attune their cities to attract innovation and growth in Science,...

Archives of IT (AIT) collects oral and documentary history on the story of IT and coms since the dawn of the commercial application digital stored program computing; viz Lyons Electronic Office in 1951. While Apple, Google, Microsoft et al dominate the markets, the UK as much as the USA paved the way for this revolution and built an industry that supports every branch of our economy. Some would sa...

Central banks have failed to issue money that is stable and stops climate change . Parliament should authorize private test issues of digital Great Depression self-liquidating money . It would become lifeboat money in the next pandemic lock down or when the financial system again fails . Tethered to an eternal sustainable wellbeing metric this simpler medium of exchange would stop climate change t...

Decarbonising energy systems to deliver sustainable energy futures is widely recognised as a global imperative but, unless local natural resources align with this objective, the technologies do not yet exist that allow communities to meet energy transition targets economically. For remote communities cut off from mainland infrastructure the energy transition journey may take several decades but ev...

Jayne Sibley is CEO and Co-Founder of Sibstar, the UK’s first debit card and app designed specifically for people living with dementia. A first-time founder, Jayne’s background is in marketing and communications for leading UK brands, including The Body Shop and BBC.Jayne launched Sibstar in 2023 after caring for her parents, both of whom were living with dementia. During this period, Jayne notice...

Today, only 1% of demolition materials and products are reused, contributing to over 50% of London’s waste streams. Meanwhile, we continue to build a city the size of Paris every week. Building anything uses embodied carbon and the carbon clock is ticking. What can be done to change the built environment’s detrimental modus operandi? This session will delve into a transformative solution: commodit...

In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, it is more important than ever for financial institutions to stay ahead of the curve and offer tailored products and services that meet the unique needs of their customers. In this webinar, we discuss how financial services institutions are overcoming the challenges presented by traditional architectures, adopting AI and leveraging the independe...

The thirteenth 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, assembled by combining the views of financial professionals from around the world, with quantitative data commissioned and curated from over 130 sources, uses advanced statistical techniques to map the glo...

Jarkko Hämäläinen will discuss where businesses stand in the current ESG environment, as well as the impact of and successful engagement with ESG.The critical role of infrastructure in achieving sustainability goals and reducing emissions will be examined in depth. With infrastructure responsible for around 79% of total greenhouse gas emissions, it represents the area with the highest potential fo...

Extreme weather disasters, such as floods, tropical storms and wildfires, are becoming more frequent and more intense. These disasters threaten both life and livelihood, causing the loss of homes and jobs that can scar the lives of those affected. Disaster insurance, by providing funds for reconstruction, plays an essential role in limiting these consequences of disaster. Yet, disaster insurance i...

WHO cares about the money of the future? WHY should I care about the money of the future? These questions, and more, are addressed in depth in Intelligent Money. As money becomes digital, it will revolutionise everything. By 2030, digital money will make money personal, individualise currency and its usage, make it secure, enable it to grow automatically to meet our personal goals, manage risk aut...

Global and domestic economies depend upon trade and related trade finance. For centuries, trade and trade finance transactions have been recorded in paper documents. Cross-border trade transactions (totalling more than US$18 trillion annually) involve vast numbers of these paper documents that must pass through the hands of many parties. This process is slow, inefficient, costly, error and fraud p...

Financial crime is a global threat, costing businesses and consumers trillions annually. But what if we could leverage the very technology that fuels these crimes – Artificial Intelligence – to fight back? Join us for a webinar exploring the power of AI for Good in fraud and financial crime prevention. We'll delve into Featurespace's decade-long journey as an industry leader in AI-native f...

The built environment, be it in the form of town halls, schools, shops, pubs, pavements, bridges, makes up the background to our lives and our most tangible experience of our cultural heritage. This talk will discuss the importance of preserving the best examples of our built heritage , and will suggest an alternative to over scale, mono cultural development. Mixed use, human scale development has...

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. In this webinar, Z/Yen will formally launch the 35th edition of the index.

Concrete production and steelmaking currently account for a staggering 8% and 11% of global annual carbon emissions, respectively. Having been overlooked for far too long, attention on how to swiftly and equitably decarbonise both sectors is growing. There are enabling technologies to clean up production. Demand from businesses for net zero steel and concrete grows ever louder. Yet, volumes are no...

Z/Yen's "Focus On" series highlights key business and financial centres from around the world. Here, we look at Busan, South Korea's second largest city at 3.4 million and a burgeoning centre for maritime industry, finance, and digital finance. Busan's ambitious plans for expanding their digital finance ecosystem include the creation of a urban blockchain and digital asset ex...

In October 2010 the UK Government gave the green light to eight new nuclear reactors. It would see the UK push forward with the most ambitious fleet of new nuclear power stations in Europe. On 11 March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster occurred and nuclear power plant investment in the UK was put on hold. It was not until September 2016 the Government approved the constructi...

The speed of change in the global energy mix is occurring at a historically rapid pace. TerraPower President and CEO Chris Levesque will discuss how the growing need for electricity and the urgency to address climate change have increased the need for advanced nuclear technologies to be part of the suite of solutions to meet the energy needs of the future. The Natrium reactor and energy storage sy...

In this 45-minute webinar, David Craddock discusses the historical contribution from the USA and Europe on the development of direct employee share ownership in the context of market economics; the capacity of employee share schemes to respond to the creative instincts of human nature; the interaction between business competition and business cooperation; and the mindset of entrepreneurship throug...

The current UK funding mechanism for critical private sector ESG initiatives is clearly unsustainable. Current ESG objectives are at great risk unless one of the following occurs: a) governments take financial responsibility for the entire climate transition, b) market volatility across asset classes somehow disappears for the next 30 years, or c) UK asset managers become not for profit social ent...

The authors of “competition in public procurement”, published by the UK National Audit Office will present their recent report and recommendations which are equally relevant for buyers and sellers across the public and private sectors. UK government spends over £250 billion every year on the procurement of goods and services. It is a broadly agreed principle that competition can help support effic...

A regular speaker at the FS Club, EU Regulatory Expert David Doyle is back to give a new year update on the EU financial services regulatory agenda, which will cover: The EU Artificial Intelligence Act The new EU AML Authority The Crypto-Assets Regulation Digital Operational Resilience Act

The term unicorn to describe a private technology company with a valuation of more than $1 billion has become a common currency since it was first coined by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures. Unicorns have even become a symbol of national achievement with politicians [Rishi Sunak] vowing to transform the UK from a United Kingdom to a Unicorn Kingdom in 2023. There has been a surge in the numb...