LIBF Banking & Finance Podcast

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LIBF Banking & Finance Podcast episodes

January 30, 2020 Episode 71: Introducing the Financial Adviser podcast
Everybody needs paraplanners
In this first episode John Somerville sits down with David Owen from Lifetime Connect to discuss all things paraplanning, how the role of the paraplanner has changed over the years and why now is the ideal time to think about becoming one.
You can read more about the role of the paraplanner on our Insights blog or you can find out more about our Diploma in Paraplanning (DipPP) on our website.
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6 min
January 20, 2020 Episode 70: Financial education five years on - is it still adding up?
It’s been five years since financial education was included in the national curriculum. So, does that mean every child now receives a solid foundation on how to manage money and how the finance sector works? In this podcast, Andy Davis, a financial journalist and contributor to the Institute’s latest book, Banking on change, and Catherine Winter our Managing Director for Financial Capability, talk about where financial education has got to and what needs to change.
Published to mark our 140th anniversary, Banking on Change provides insights by experts and influencers from across the financial services industry on the issues affecting the sector now and for the future.
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26 min
January 14, 2020 Episode 69: Celebrating 21 years of CDCS
This year marks the 21st birthday of our Certificate for Documentary Credit Specialists (CDCS), which was created in 1999 by BAFT and The London Institute of Banking & Finance to professionalise the practice of issuing documentary letters of credit and checking presentations.
In this podcast our trade finance experts David Morrish and Michael Backhouse look back over some of the highlights of the last 21 years and talk about the role documentary credit specialists play in international trade.

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31 min
January 08, 2020 Episode 68: Banking on Change
In November we officially launched our new book at an event in central London.
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
In this podcast our Henry Grunfeld Professor of Banking, and book contributor, Pete Hahn provides an overview of the main themes from the book in a speech he gave at the beginning of the evening.
Banking on Change is published by Wiley priced at £35. You can purchase a copy at https://bit.ly/35DCEWB
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28 min
December 17, 2019 Episode 67: The Centre for Digital Banking and Finance presents Artificial Intelligence Breakfast Briefing
Stephen Stanton-Downes, Managing Director, Finding X and Ilya Feige, Director of AI, Faculty explore the need for explainable AI, share the latest thinking in this leading-edge domain and discuss how organisations can start embracing the far-reaching implications.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming part of our everyday world with far-reaching effects. AI projects are being developed in medical arenas to predict future illnesses in patients, social media platforms use algorithms to predict user behaviour, and increasingly in financial services firms to make trading and investment decisions.
The Centre for Digital Banking and Finance aims to address digital disruption and how banking and financial professionals can position themselves in the market to remain competitive and simultaneously deliver innovative solutions to their customers and partners.
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48 min
November 18, 2019 Episode 66: WCBI 2019 – What will banks be doing in 2029?
The World Conference of Banking Institutes (WCBI) is a global forum that brings together a large number of central bankers, commercial bankers, finance professionals, academics, learning and development consultants, global banking and finance education providers.
The conference was held on 16-17 September 2019 and this podcast includes the panel session discussing the future of banking and what we could see in the next ten years.

Moderator & Chair
Dr. Andrew Hilton, Director, CSFI
Panel
Nick Ogden,Executive Chairman, ClearBank®
Natalie Ceeney CBE,Chair, Innovate Finance
Sabrina Del Prete, Founder, and CEO, Kore Labs
Justin Fitzpatrick,Co-Founder, and CEO, DueDil
Read more on trends in banking and finance and the future of financial services here
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50 min
November 05, 2019 Episode 65: CSFI Sustainable Finance – What role do carbon markets play in tackling climate change?
This is the first in a series of events on sustainable finance organised with the CSFI. It focuses on attempts to control the biggest contributor to the "greenhouse gas" effect - carbon dioxide.
To help us understand both the carbon markets and the climate change issue they are designed to address, we have brought together a distinguished panel, including: Louis Redshaw, CEO and Founder of Redshaw Advisors, Rachel Ward, Head of Policy at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, Julie Elmgren, a Carbon Trader at Gazprom.
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1 hr 44 min
October 30, 2019 Episode 64: Leading through uncertain times, Georgina Silvester, Handelsbanken
In this podcast, Georgina Silvester, Chief Operating Officer UK for Handelsbanken, talks about the bank transferring its UK banking business from a branch of Svenska Handelsbanken AB publ into a wholly owned subsidiary - 'Handelsbanken plc'. This transfer was the largest, undertaking by the Group in recent times. The bank steered the implementation towards its own goals and objectives through close collaboration with the UK regulators, whilst maintaining the bank's unique business model and strong culture and values.
This event took place on 26 February 2019.
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45 min
October 08, 2019 Episode 63: How big data is changing the role of banks and banking
How banks are holding an increasing amount of our data and what this means for the roles banking will play in the future
9 min
September 18, 2019 Episode 62: Fireside chat with Simon Jack, Business, BBC.
For our latest podcast, we revisit our lively fireside from last November with Simon Jack, Business editor of the BBC.
Introduced by Peter Hahn, Dean and Henry Grunfeld Professor of The London Institute of Banking & Finance, they discuss various topics including open Banking, RBS, and economic climate.
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58 min