The FS Club Podcast

Find our more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3HXGDUF Keeping people as safe as possible during incidents such as fires, attacks or explosions involves changing behaviour as well as physical protection. The ways that people behave in emergencies can help or hinder survivability, particularly in crowded places where the potential for congestion and crush can be as dangerous as the o...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3HJ0lmF This webinar looks at everything from how banking plays a role in the climate emergency through to the FinTech world using technology to overcome issues of inequality and inclusion. The themes of Mr Skinner's new book 'Digital for Good' include questioning the purpose of banking, and whether it is socially useful; how purpose ca...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3JpF9Ul Complementary currencies have spread to many places around the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Creating sustainable economic cycles and short transport routes are often the goals of introducing them. Due to their manageability, regional currencies can be embedded in debates of regional economics and sustainability. A...

Find our more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Htj8SX The four-day working week may seem attractive to workers, however critics are quick to point out the potential risks that a shift in working patterns would cause the economy. A new book by  Dr Pedro Gomes , Reader in Economics in Birkbeck’s Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statisti...

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3wpW15m At Weatherbys Private Bank, we put our clients at the heart of everything we do. We remain a family run business, keeping pace with the digital world we now live in. With our online and mobile banking services our clients stay in control with easy access to their finances wherever they are. As more complex financial needs arise, alongside the di...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3WL5TSh Join ES3G’s Kris Van Broekhoven for a webinar exploring how we can objectively measure the S of ESG of any company using technology, and how we can engage the end consumer to use its purchase power to direct the supply chain towards improvement of labour conditions. Kris will share his experience from rolling out a worker engage...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3iONXrY Why is Red Bull so popular – even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And why do we prefer stripy toothpaste? We think we are rational creatures. Economics and business rely on the assumption that we make logical decisions based on evidence. But we aren’t, and...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3WjobK1 We live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity – from living your ‘best life’ to eating artisan food – matters more than ever before, and yet we have created a world riddled with inauthenticities, from counterfactual conspiracies to the carefully curated profiles that dominate social media. Authenticity itself has become a v...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3QI3XIy China's global role grows more contentious and vexed as it becomes more economically and geopolitically important. But what does Xi Jinping want for his country as it stands poised to become the world's largest economy. This talk will look at some of the indicators and what they might mean. Speaker: Kerry Brown is Professor of C...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3X9PIyK The UN announced a crackdown on carbon net zero greenwashing at COP 27 as global emissions are still heading in the wrong direction despite record multi-trillion-dollar trade in carbon credits and climate bonds. Tightened accounting and verification standards are to follow. Meanwhile, scientists have produced breakthroughs in me...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3GW6mMJ A regular speaker at the FS Club, David Doyle is back to give a new year update on the EU financial services regulatory agenda. In this webinar, David will cover: Future of the access rules for non-EU financial services institutions in the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation Revisions to the MiFID and AIFMD regimes, including...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3YG2HJs At the Financial Services Culture Board (FSCB) we provide support and challenge to our member firms from across financial services in managing their organisational cultures, and work with firms outside of financial services that join as Associates. We use a variety of direct and indirect information-gathering approaches in our w...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3FRtNpD We live in a world where business, Government and media extol the virtues of being data led, of using and exploiting data, of regarding data, in a slightly imperfect analogy, as the new oil. Ed Humpherson, head of the UK’s Office for Statistics Regulation, is in the front line of these debates. He focuses on how the UK Governmen...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3j4RtxP Industry observers, investors and pundits have mused for years how Malaysia leveraged its natural resources in palm oil and large plantations (and embedded corruption to inhibit changes) which produced strong cash flows in a low beta investment environment. However, over the past couple of years, to paraphrase Bob Dylan... "the...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3PCAv6d Cities like London are rapidly falling into dependence on so-called cashless payments, but the term ‘cashless’ is but a euphemism for the payments infrastructure run by the banking sector, Visa, Mastercard and Big Tech, which exists to move privately issued bank-money around. This shift away from government-issued physical cash...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Pov2QD David Craddock examines the role that employee share schemes can play in contributing to the levelling-up agenda in the context of the commitment given by the British Government to the electorate in the regions, whether urban, rural, or coastal. David identifies the unique characteristics of employee share schemes in reducing in...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3HnMwKS Join Fintech Ireland's Peter Oakes for a webinar exploring the fintech environment in Ireland, and how it is uniquely positioned for effective collaboration between fintech centres that have the potential to add value to both parties and the industry as a whole. Peter will cover the fintech ecosystem in Ireland, the regulatory f...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3iEBPZW Quantum Computing is a hot topic as the technology nears the point at which it will have commercial applications. Most of the world’s largest technology companies are researching it and many of them have even put Quantum Computers on the Cloud for clients to use. But why is Quantum Computing so different? What can it do that no...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3AZZQRv Carbon footprint and ESG credentials of enterprises including those in the banking and financial services industry have been hot topics of late. Equally, cost of energy and cost of IT infrastructure has been a key topic for many CTOs and CIOs in enterprises. But are we already doing the best that we could? Is it possible to furt...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3VhOCQA That seems a pretty simple question, and also a very fundamental one. But the answer to it is not one upon which practitioners, regulators, policy makers, and more particularly the customers of the industry agree. It is not the perspective from which finance is typically taught at our business schools. We all understand an effec...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3gQfjg5 Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is Northern Europe's rising digital star. Estonia has built a world-leading digital society, with a secure and transparent financial ecosystem. Estonia is sometimes known as the unicorn factory in tech and investor circlers, giving birth to many global success stories like Wise, Skype, Bolt and m...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3Ugz9ia Government uses corporate finance techniques to generate proceeds from asset sales, maintain financial stability, open new markets for investment and a range of other purposes. This offers a fascinating variety of professional opportunities in government departments and agencies, and professional advisory mandates. The National...

Find a copy of the report here: https://bit.ly/3ET8Kmi In this webinar, we launch the sixth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 6). 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 attu...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3gBIPGf Recent events – the pandemic, global supply chain disruption, extreme weather – have strained the UK to breaking point. No one can fail to be aware of the consequences of lack of resilience in our economy and society. Digital systems are already a critical part of society and the economy – we all depend on services supplied by d...

Find out more about this event on our website: https://bit.ly/3AAye5e Speaker: Professor Michael Mainelli, FCCA FCSI(Hon) FBCS, Chairman, Z/Yen Group , is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. Michael gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Pro...