LIBF Banking & Finance Podcast

Osy Plummer, Visiting Professor of Finance at the EU Business School in Geneva and Montreux, talks to Alex Fraser about how rational actions and emotional impulses affect investment decisions.

Professor Peter Hahn, our university Dean interviews Paul Lewis, presenter of BBC’s Money Box. They cover all things consumer finance; do consumers have too much choice? How has consumer finance changed, and can we change it for the better? Paul also discusses the possibility of a cashless society. Is that our future?

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This panel discussion, held in conjunction with the CSFI, focuses on capital markets. 

The panel consists of Vivek Agarwal (Wipro), Octavio Marenzi (Opimas), Monica Summerville (TABB Group), Philip Taliaferro (Broadridge) and Kirston Winters (IHS Markit).

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Shelley Doorey-Williams and Samantha Zhou discuss gender equality in the banking and financial services sectors, women in finance and the Women in Finance Society newly created by students of The London Institute of Banking & Finance.

Shelley Doorey-Williams will be speaking at WCBI 2019, taking part in the ‘Gender equality in banking and finance’ panel on 16 September.

The conference’s theme is ‘Growth and sustainability in an age of disruption’. It will be a landmark event for the international banking and finance community, bringing together perspectives from across the world on the forces shaping the future of our sector.

You can find out more information about WCBI 2019 and book your place at www.wcbi2019.com

Speakers: Shelley Doorey-Williams, Head of Wealth Planning, Europe, Middle East and Africa, UBS and Samantha Zhou, Student, The London Institute of Banking & Finance

Dr Paul Fisher and Chris McHugh discuss sustainable finance, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and social investing. Dr Paul Fisher will be speaking at WCBI 2019 about the intersection of banking regulation and sustainable finance. The conference’s theme is ‘Growth and sustainability in an age of disruption’. It will be a landmark event for the international banking and finance community, bringing together perspectives from across the world on the forces shaping the future of our sector.

You can find out more information about WCBI 2019 and book your place at www.wcbi2019.com

Speakers: Dr Paul Fisher, Fellow, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Chris McHugh, Lecturer, The London Institute of Banking & Finance

The Financial Innovation Awards, which are presented by The London Institute of Banking & Finance, are now in our 22nd year. We recognise best practice, product innovation and projects that have a positive impact on the finance sector, consumers and communities across the globe. Join Nadim Choudhury and Dr Pete Hahn, one of our judges for the awards as they discuss why you should enter the awards, offer advice to those thinking of entering, and why it’s important to keep innovating.

The awards take place on Thursday 21 November in London, and you can enter via www.financialinnovationawards.co.uk

Rt Hon John Redwood MP was the speaker at our first ever trustees lecture, introduced by Alex Fraser, Chief Executive of The London Institute of Banking & Finance, and Steven Haberman, Chair of the Board of Governors.

John discusses economic history, how post war policy errors are damaging the UK economy, and the financial crisis.

Stuart Lanigan talks to our Dean and Henry Grunfeld Professor of Banking, Peter Hahn, about the changes in local government pension funds. They look at how global pension funds operate and the potential for UK local government pension funds to invest in private equity as well as more traditional investments.

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On 11th March 2019, we celebrated our 140th anniversary and we’ve been taking a look back at a vast and interesting history of banking and finance.

In this podcast, we hear an address by F. E. Steele who became Director of Studies at the Institute of Bankers in 1923. Thanks to his efforts, the Institute’s network of local centres expanded rapidly in the 1920s.

An abridged version of his 1924 BBC radio broadcast is read here by Osmond Plummer, Senior Lecturer at The London Institute of Banking & Finance.

For more information about how we’re celebrating our 140th anniversary go to libf.ac.uk/140

Finance 2025: A CSFI/The London Institute of Banking & Finance Savings discussion series on the future of the financial services sector, with particular focus on Savings and Investments. This event was held back in December 2018,

With Adam French (Scalable Capital), Romina Savova (PensionBee) Jane Fuller (CSFI) and hosted by Andrew Hilton (CSFI).

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