The FS Club Podcast

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3om7T7M Until recently, ageing was thought of as an irreversible process resulting in an inevitable decline in health and wellbeing. But over the last decade huge scientific advancements have demonstrated that ageing is modifiable. Not only can it be slowed – it can also be reversed. These breakthroughs have rewritten ageing as we know...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3mqxHz9 Governments today are much less persuaded that subsidising the burning of biomass to generate low-carbon electricity represents good value for taxpayers – let alone a good deal for our Net Zero targets. Elsewhere, in the world of controversial technologies, Carbon Capture and Storage is still struggling to prove it will ever liv...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3zCUwT9 A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail. Finance plays a key role in the prosperity of the modern world—but it also brings grave dangers. We seek to manage those threats with a vast array of sophisticated mathe...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3UgMPLH The world is having an AI moment. With the attention attracted by AI models like ChatGPT and GPT-4, interest in AI is growing exponentially in both the public and commercial sectors. As the scale of AI deployment expands, there are increasingly urgent legal questions around legal status, rights and obligations of AI developers,...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3nDtFU2 The Kigali International Financial Centre, KIFC, is Rwanda’s financial centre facilitating international investment and cross-border transactions in Africa. KIFC was established in 2020 and positions Rwanda as a preferred financial jurisdiction for investments into Africa by providing an attractive destination for investors, wit...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3KhW4rM The City of London Corporation has adopted a ground-breaking Climate Action Strategy which sets out how the organisation will achieve net zero, build climate resilience and champion sustainable growth, both in the UK and globally, over the next two decades. As part of this strategy, the Corporation has committed to support the a...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Zi8ggA 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 formally launches the 33rd edition of the index. Guest Speaker: Dhanesswurnath Thakoor, CEO, FSC Mauritius

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Z8K1kQ Professor Sir David Omand will examine the nature of modern crisis, (the topic of his next book) both those caused by outside events and the slow burn crises that can develop from policy failure. Drawing on his own experience in government service he will argue that provided we have strategic notice and make preparations, not ev...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3YVEC0t For the uninitiated, Asia-Pacific is home to a tongue-twister of both old and emerging trade agreements and economic frameworks: ASEAN, APEC, RCEP, CPTPP, IPEF, DEAs. Nevertheless, their role in both regional and global trade environments as well as their potential to shape the trade rulebook offsets their seemingly unimaginativ...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3FBw08o Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are about to enter in wider public discourse. The Bank of England has recently published a Consultation Paper on CBDCs. However, 86% of central banks around the world are looking at both domestic and international, cross-border use of CBDCs. Indeed, the introduction of CBDCs for cross-bord...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/40cLhUX The Mauritian financial services sector has been evolving in a competitive business environment and keeps on gaining momentum as a resilient and prominent sector. As one of the lynchpins of the Mauritian economy, the financial services sector has contributed to 14% of the GDP in 2021, with a growth rate of 4.6%. Over the years,...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3FmibdW It has been said that “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Yet, we continue with the status quo and rarely welcome challenge or creativity especially when addressing second-order problems or significant business and organisational challenges. Disruption is becoming the new normal –...

China’s economic growth slowed from double-digit pre-GFC to about 5% pre-covid, and to likely only 3% in 2022. Is there a permanent structural shift in China’s growth potential? Is there scaring in labor and business? Can China mitigate the long-term secular headwinds such as aging population and carbon reduction? How can China handle the medium-term risks such as housing and debt overhang? Finall...

Over 25 years, Insurance-Linked Securitisation has subtly changed the entire landscape of the (re)insurance industry by uniting it with the capital markets. Each successive year of mega-catastrophe(s) - Hurricane Andrew in 1992, World Trade Center in 2001, Hurricanes Katrina, Rita & Wilma in 2005 - has been a game-changer for the (re)insurance industry, requiring large amounts of new risk capi...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/4298vwR For over a thousand years the pongamia tree has been an integral part of agriculture in India, providing fodder for livestock, fertilizer and natural pesticides for crops, oil for lamps, power for industry and healing biocompounds used in traditional medicines. Pongamia trees possess all the features that plant breeders are seek...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3y2xrbI Edward Tenner writes about the revenge effect in technology in his book, The Revenge of Unintended Consequences. He points out specifically that security is an example of where we can see the revenge effect. “Security is another window on revenge effects. Power door locks, now standard on most cars, increase the sense of safety....

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/41ivvJD 20 years ago, ' Great Mistakes in Technology Commercialization ' was published. What are the five 'Great Mistakes' in the paper? They are: A failure to distinguish the scientific and technical 'features' of a product/service from the 'benefits' it brings to users/customers 'Top-down market assessment' such as 'the market is $5bn...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3EnYt0z This webinar will examine social innovation through the medium of responses to food insecurity with a particular emphasis on collaboration. Though the image of food insecurity in the UK is around the phenomena of food banks, Professor Alex Murdock will take a broader approach and will explore aspects such as technological respon...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3lOYNPM This year, the new European “unified patent court agreement” (UPCA) is expected to come into force. This agreement will introduce the new “unitary patent” which will enable proprietors of European patents to cover a new pseudo-region of (currently) 17 EU states in one go. The agreement will also introduce the new Unified Patent...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3lzPLG2 Often the first uses of a new technology seem frivolous in hindsight. Blockchain technology spent its first few years in the public eye as the backbone for inherently value-less “cryptocurrencies.” As the sky-high values of things like BTC and ETH were soaring, blockchains were adapted to NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens, the headlin...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3XBd5QZ Estonia was the first country to offer e-Residency – a government-issued digital identity that allows entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to start and manage a paperless EU-based company fully online. To date the e-Residency of Estonia has attracted over 96000 entrepreneurs, freelancers and startup founders from 179 countri...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3YKqyHd The Philippines is the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s second-largest nation. It is the region’s fastest growing population and its third biggest economy. It has a young labor force, a resilient financial sector, and an expanding economy growing by 7.7 percent, year on year, in the first three quarters of 2022....

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3x89Up9 In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies—money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains difficult to articulate its democratic possibilities and limits. In this webinar, Stefan Eich will take...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Xhw0jI To what extent is global trade a new phenomenon? Documents from the Cairo Geniza, a cache of manuscripts from a medieval Egyptian synagogue, hold answers to this question, even if getting at them requires knowledge of multiple semitic languages, skill in paleography and bookkeeping worthy of medieval long-distance traders themse...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3YnouVy US and G7 financial sanctions on Russia have raised concerns about weaponization of the dollar - that is, increased use by the United States of the international financial leverage afforded by the greenback's "exorbitant privilege." The question is whether other countries, contemplating even the remote possibility that they may...