The FS Club Podcast

In 2021 the  Deep Transitions  project set up the Deep Transitions Futures project and convened a global panel of influential investors. The panel and research team sought to formulate a new investment philosophy, informed by the Deep Transitions’ Theory of Change, that challenged investors to commit to worldbuilding through transformative investment, not system optimisation. A new approach to inv...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/in-conversation-with-afua-kyei-and-tangy-morgan-from-the-bank-of-england-on-why-diversity-and-representation-are-essential-for-firms/ Background: Afua Kyei and Tangy Morgan were honoured on the Powerlist 2023 '100 most influential Britons of black heritage’. Afua is the Bank's Chief Financial Officer and...

Alderman James Vos, the Mayoral Committee Member at the City of Cape Town, will discuss how his Directorate is working to create an environment in the municipality where more residents can access opportunities. He will focus on the Inclusive Economic Growth Strategy, the City’s deadline-driven plan to build this environment and highlight the municipal government’s recently-launched Ease of Doing B...

The second introductory webclave to the forthcoming Cityforum programme of round tables ‘Reimagining Security and Resilience’ is scheduled for mid-June 2023. Chaired by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli of Z/Yen with whom Cityforum is working on this series, the excellent panel of discussants comprises George Barnes, Deputy Director NSA, with considerable cyber expertise, Elisabeth Braw, the dis...

Over the last few years many organisations have begun to consider adopting a multicloud approach, to ensure continued performance and resilience. However, great care must be taken as this can risk increasing the attack surface and amplifying the chance of issues caused by misconfigurations. In this webinar, we hear from cloud security specialists GFT and Palo Alto on how to leverage the benefits o...

The Medicis and Florence, Luxembourg and its Freeport, London and New York with their auction houses. Successful financial centres are also successful centres for art. How are art and finance related to each other? Can art elevate the standing of financial centres? Can financial centres help artists? Can art become an asset class? The World Alliance for International Financial Centres (WAIFC) and...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/digital-care-who-is-getting-digital-now/ Each year Alan shares insights with us from the fast-evolving world of Digital care. Themes will be of interest to healthcare policy-makers, payers and care providers:This is his fourth Z/Yen visit to reflect on:the expanding reach of Digital care into hospital management...

The inefficiency of cross border payments is well known and lags behind the improvements seen in domestic payments. This stifles global trade and particularly hurts small/medium enterprises who are the engine room of economic growth. The value of cross border payments is estimated to increase from $150 trillion in 2017 to $250 trillion by 2027. The World Bank monitors the global average cost of se...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://www.zyen.com/events/all-events/digital-innovation-in-financial-services-with-low-code-no-code-lcnc/ Changing customer expectations and increasing regulations have every financial institution getting their digital transformation initiatives off the ground. Post-pandemic developments have only accelerated the need for this shift. Join our speake...

In today's rapidly changing landscape, it is increasingly important to address the growing savings gap and ensure individuals have access to expert guidance and support in managing their finances. During this webinar, we will explore the current state of the financial advice industry and shed light on the limitations of existing advisers. We will address the need to incubate and nurture aspiri...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://fsclub.zyen.com/events/all-events/launch-smart-centres-index-7/ In this webinar, we launch the seventh edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 7). 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, scient...

Background: Thinking about, preparing for and responding to threats to resilience’ is the first discussion in the Cityforum ‘Re-imagining Security and Resilience’ project. This hour-long session is Chaired by Ian Aitchison, a Z/yen specialist with particular interest in maritime. Ian is joined by Dorothy Wickham, a well-known journalist from the Solomon Islands, and Cityforum Associates Hon Frankl...

Parametric insurance has existed for over 20 years, but its use has grown recently due to new technologies and data sources. In 2023, parametric solutions are being used by insurers, businesses and individuals to manage weather, catastrophe, cyber, business interruption and a range of other risks. Matthew Grant and Henry Gale will provide an update on the latest product innovations in parametric i...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Imsyje The construction (and the wider built environment) industry is one of the largest contributors to global emissions. At the same time, there is significant pressure on construction firms and the wider industry to commit to emission reduction targets, whether as a result of regulation, client demand and/or other pressures. There i...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3MfHNf7 The events of the past 18 months, the crash in cryptocurrency prices and prominent crypto failures such as those of Terra/Luna, Celsius and FTX, might have been expected to sound the death knell on crypto and crypto assets. Far from it. We are still in hubris. The promotion of “responsible” crypto has been gaining not losing str...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3IiV9pQ With spring well underway and summer around the corner, many of us will have already booked our summer getaway. But how much do consumers think about their spending whilst on holiday; has the rise of digital banking impacted the way we make payments abroad? We know that cash is no longer king when it comes to spending in the UK,...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3M4pFom At COP3 in Kyoto in 1997, carbon markets were the preferred anti-climate change mechanism. It may have been a slow quarter century burn, but three-quarters of those responding to a survey conducted by Z/Yen for the Global Green Finance Index expect 30% or more of greenhouse gas emissions to be covered by carbon pricing by 2030,...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3I4UTdH We show that the premia ills of finance, asset mispricing and short-termism, have a common cause. The problems stem from the commonly adopted, and seemingly prudent practice whereby Giant pension and other institutional funds benchmark short-term performance of their delegated asset managers to market cap indexes or peer group p...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3LFiyCm Since 1980 the IT revolution has brought amazing changes, but it has been accompanied by rising inequality and low growth that has left many people feeling stranded, stoking social discord and populism. This lecture links these trends to how and where IT is produced. Because IT is mainly created by skilled workers it has boosted...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3LxIxvF The growing global momentum for reform of the international financial architecture presents opportunities in 2023 to change the current trajectory of climate change. The COP27 conclusions recognised the need for major financial system reform to unlock investment for decarbonisation. Markets will have to be harnessed to support t...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3NninOL Background: In our next newspad review webinar chaired by Global Shares’ Bryony Wilson, panellists Jennifer Rudman of Equiniti, and Elliot Alexander of Computershare will be joined by ShareGift’s Gabbi Stopp to discuss the government’s Call For Evidence on Share Incentive Plan (SIP) and Save as you Earn (SAYE) plans, along with...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/411zWHc Z/Yen and the China Development Institute (CDI) host a regular series of open discussions on technology and financial futures. In this event, we will look at the future of green hydrogen as a power source, and the ideas and technologies that are in development or in production. Most hydrogen currently produced is made using natu...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Nitjgt Big data, AI, generative AI, Chat GPT and other buzzwords - they’re moving faster than light these days and it’s hard to keep up with tech news, even less with what the implications mean for us as businesses. In this webinar we’re looking at how AI could shape one of the largest asset classes in the world - our built environment...

Find out more about this event on our website: ⁠https://bit.ly/3mL2eba⁠ The eleventh 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...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3LbsvIW Mauritius, as an international financial centre and growing Fintech hub, is among the first countries in the Eastern and Southern African region to adopt a comprehensive legislation on virtual assets and initial token offerings through the Virtual Asset and Initial Token Offerings Services Act 2021 (VAITOS). The Act, which came...