fDi Podcast

fDi Podcast

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fDi Podcast episodes

  • Doing FDI in Afghanistan
    Plagued by decades of violence and conflict, the country is no ordinary place for doing business. Yet a slowly improving security and political environment is creating space for few pioneer investors to come in and develop a base of local businesses to serve an almost untouched market of 35mn people. British banker Anthony Barned took the gamble to move to Kabul and run a bank, the Afghanistan International Bank (AIB), jointly funded by local and international capital. He discusses with podcast host Jacopo Dettoni the perks and perils of navigating the country’s numerous challenges to remain on the positive side of its high risk / high reward business proposition. 

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    23 min
  • Voices from Hong Kong: Is the financial centre doomed?

    “The Pearl of the Orient” has built a reputation for stability and modernity over the decades, with its iconic financial centre at the heart of it. Now it all hangs in the balance as the mounting protests of the last weeks are lifting the veil on the challenges posed by the “One country, two systems” model as China becomes more assertive in the way it handles the ongoing transition ending in 2047. Early evidence suggests that financial and physical capital is being moved out of the country already. Podcast host Jacopo Dettoni spoke to three expats professionals working in the city’s financial and legal industry to get their views on how the current turmoil will impact Hong Kong’s future as a global investment hub:


    • Carlos Casanova, economist for the Asia Pacific region at credit insurance firm Coface;
    • Julien Chaisse, law professor at the City University of Hong Kong;
    • Alberto Vettoretti, managing partner at investment advisory firm Dezan Shira.  


    Kevin Loane, senior economist at London-based Fathom Consulting, also joins the discussion from our studio in London.



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    35 min
  • How can non-capital cities compete?
    Cities are in an evermore global competition to attract foreign investment. How can they improve their strategy to stand out? Podcast host Sebastian Shehadi discusses solutions with Alexis Krachai, a founding director of the Sheffield Property Association - a private sector body that helps promote Sheffield internationally - and Peter Griffiths, city strategist at ING Media, a leading PR and communications consultancy for the built environment.

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    21 min
  • The geopolitical context behind eight foreign investment trends
    Charles Hecker, senior partner at Control Risk - one of the world's leading political risk consultancies - discusses with podcast host Sebastian Shehadi the geopolitical context behind some of the latest national foreign investment trends highlighted in the fDi Report 2019 - the annual assessment of crossborder investment based on the FT’s fDi Markets data service. Countries discussed include: Vietnam, Uzbekistan, the UK, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire.  

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    16 min
  • "The next stage of the Belt and Road initiative comes down to special economic zones"
    Henry Tillman, founder and editor of ChinaInvestmentResearch.com, a research firm that tracks Chinese outbound investment, discusses with podcast host Jacopo Dettoni the changing nature of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and weighs in on the ongoing trade battle between the US and China, which is also affecting the outlook for BRI projects: "The more they [the US] block Huawei, the more they maintain their competitive advantage for artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies". 

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    14 min
  • “This is (perhaps) the moment for Indonesia to reach its potential”
    Ed Ratcliffe, head of research and advisory at London-based think tank Asia House, discusses the FDI outlook in Indonesia with podcast host Jacopo Dettoni as president Joko “Jokowi” Widodo enters another 5-year term at the helm of the South-East Asian country after winning general elections in April.

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    13 min
  • The demand for 'experiences' and sustainability is disrupting tourism
    The next generation of tourists don't want to feel like tourists when touring. In slightly less cryptic words: travellers are looking more and more for cultural immersion, for more 'authentic, meaningful and social' experiences over material goods. fDi's Sebastian Shehadi and Alex Irwin-Hunt invite Tiffany Misrahi, policy director at the World Travel and Tourism Council, to discuss how the tourism industry is responding to this trend. The growing desire for an 'experience' accompanies the rising trend towards environmental sustainability within tourism. However, lofty ideals and the realities of consumer behaviour are at a mismatch.

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    33 min
  • MIPIM: Economic developers put on a brave face amid uncertainty

    Another edition of the annual MIPIM international real estate forum has taken place and the fDi editorial team was there in force. Jacopo Dettoni, Courtney Fingar and Sebastian Shehadi discuss how the large UK delegation carried on investment promotion efforts while a daily stream of Brexit news broke back home, how Industry 4.0 is making manufacturing sexy again, and what business, economic and political risks still lie on the horizon. 


    The podcast features interviews with:

     

    ·      Stefan Schostok, mayor of Hannover;

    ·      Pere Navarro, special state delegate at Barcelona’s free trade zone (Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona;

    ·      Khaled Abbas, Egypt’s deputy minister of housing for national projects.


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    26 min
  • Trump’s trade war shaping new investment promotion strategies

    Dozens of investment promotion agencies (IPAs) from all over the globe gathered at the Waipa investment conference in Xiamen, on the Chinese eastern coast, at the beginning of September. Adrienne Klasa, fDi Magazine’s and the Banker's development finance editor, shares her main takeaways from the event, discussing how the trade feud between Washington and Beijing is prompting adjustments in investment promotion strategies in China, Asia and beyond.


    Features Interviews with: 

    • Sun Xinhua, president of Invest Shanghai
    • Harley Seyedin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China
    • Jan Zapletal, director China and southeast Asia at Czechinvest
    • Jiang Xiheng, vice president of the Centre for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD)
    • Dong-ik Lee, director general of investment operations at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
    • Peter Fuhrman, CEO of China First Capital 



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    33 min
  • EU-Japan trade deal to create world's largest open economic area
    The treaty, signed on July 6, drops tariffs and soft barriers across an area of 600mn people worth a third of the global economy. It also reiterates the role of both parties as champions of global trade right at a time when protectionism is mounting around the globe. Podcast host Jacopo Dettoni speaks to Elitsa Garnizova, a researcher at the London School of Economics, about the treaty's impact on mutual trade and investment moving forward, and its implications for Japanese investment in the UK as Brexit's March 2019 deadline approaches. 

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    28 min

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