LIBF Banking & Finance Podcast

Alex Fraser, Chief Executive of The London Institute of Banking & Finance, talks to leading figures about issues affecting the banking and finance sector – now and for the future.

In this first episode, Alex talks to Sabila Din, Founder of Din Consultants and a member of LIBF’s International Advisory Board, about how banks are adapting and reacting to change and how they are supporting small and medium-sized enterprises. They also discuss gender diversity in the sector and other sustainability issues, including the role of agribusiness.

This interview took place on 01/12/2020.

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Paul Gordon Managing Director, SME & Mid Corporates, Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group, and Gordon Milne Senior Relationship Director, LIBF, talk to Ouida Taaffe, Editor of Financial World, about the challenges for banks in SME Lending and asks what role alternative data could play.

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In this podcast, Heather Tilston, Head of PR & Marketing at LIBF, talks to Caroline Murray, Senior Lecturer at LIBF and Kate Bohn, Accelerator and Incubator Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, about gender diversity and their experiences of working in the finance sector.

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In its Future of Finance series, The London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF) and The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI) invite leading practitioners and observers to debate current trends in finance and discuss what they might mean for the future of the sector.  

In this first episode in the series, Dave Birch, a director of Consult Hyperion; Helene Panzarino, Associate Director of the Centre for Digital Banking and Finance at LIBF; Amir Nooriala, Chief Strategy Officer at Callsign; and Radu Orghidan, Vice President of Cognitive Computing at Endava debate recent trends in fintech… or should we now say ‘techfin’? The discussion is hosted by director of CSFI and Visiting Professor at LIBF, Andrew Hilton.

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In February 2020, we ran one of our REACH BAME events that are designed to give an insight into the world of banking and finance while highlighting some of the key diversity issues the industry faces. Jagdeep Rai, Regional Director, HSBC talks to us about her own career path, progression, development and diversity in Financial Services.

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This is the last in a series of discussions on sustainable finance, organised with the CSFI. It will pull together key themes and explore likely developments in 2020. The event took place in January 2020.

The debate has ranged from measures to tackle climate change via carbon pricing to the duties placed on fund managers to influence companies for the better and to explain to savers, notably in pension funds, what is going on.

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Globally more than 70 challenger banks - many of whom are technically not 'banks' - are competing with incumbent banks. In the UK we have Monzo, N26. Revolut, Monese - to name just four.  What is happening? Who is winning or losing? Will Big Tech enter the battlefield?

Renier Lemmens is a Senior Advisor and Visiting Professor of Fintech and Innovation at The London Institute of Banking & Finance. He is a Venture Partner with DN Capital focusing on Fintech.

He currently also serves as Chairman of TransferGo, Divido, Mojo Mortgages, and Hostmaker. He is a non-executive director at Arion Bank and recently served as a board member of Revolut.

In the past, Renier served as CEO of PayPal EMEA and member of its global executive team. He was COO of Barclays International Retail and Commercial Banking. Renier was an officer of GE Capital where he served as Chairman and CEO of Budapest Bank, and SVP Business Development for the Americas. Renier was a partner with McKinsey & Company in London, New Delhi, and San Francisco.

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This is the third in a series of panel discussions we are organising with the CSFI around the way that ESG issues are shaping the financial services sector.

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This is the second in a series of panel discussions that we are organising with the CSFI around the way that environmental issues are shaping the financial sector. The first covered carbon trading; this looks at the asset management industry - and specifically at how the equity and fixed income markets are responding to the environmental challenge.

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Henry Grunfeld Professor of Banking Pete Hahn chairs a debate on the future of banking held at the launch event for our new book Banking on Change. 

Banking on Change was commissioned to mark our 140th anniversary. It provides insights by experts and influencers from across the financial services industry on some of the central questions facing the finance sector today

Banking on Change is published by Wiley priced at £35.

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