The FS Club Podcast

A regular speaker at the FS Club, David Doyle is back to give a mid-year update on the EU financial services regulatory agenda.He will be covering some of the most contentious and game-changing pieces of EU legislation in the financial services space, notably:

We live in a world where money buys power and where companies exist to maximise shareholder value. Our speakers explore alternative business models with ‘Purpose’ at their core, as an essential component in delivering a world where outcomes are reflective of social as well as economic “good”.Annika Schneider, International Partnerships Lead at Purpose Economy, and Andrew Kaufmann, Founder of Time to Give Network will share their insights into the common challenges facing participants in the purpose economy and charitable sectors, and how innovative solutions utilising Stewardship Governance, Skilled-Based Fundraising and Leveraged Philanthropy are catalysts to building a more balanced world.

In this webinar, we launch the ninth edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 9). 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 attune their cities to attract innovation and growth in Science, Technology, Energy Systems, Machine Learning, Distributed Ledgers, or Fintech. Tuning a city for innovation is complex. Z/Yen began studying successful and unsuccessful business innovation clustering some 15 years ago, and published in 2018 the Smart Jurisdictions Index. Building on the results of that research we have created a novel factor assessment index based on three dimensions - innovation support, creative intensity, and delivery capability.The SCI is designed to track the readiness of business centres across the world to support new technology businesses. The SCI uses assessments from private and public sector individuals, along with over 120 instrumental factors, to rate the centres. This important project that will grow substantially as more people pay attention to the ways centres can help globally innovative businesses thrive in rapidly changing times.

Archives of IT (AIT) collects oral and documentary history on the story of IT and coms since the dawn of the commercial application digital stored program computing; viz Lyons Electronic Office in 1951. While Apple, Google, Microsoft et al dominate the markets, the UK as much as the USA paved the way for this revolution and built an industry that supports every branch of our economy. Some would say, another dawn is about to break with the realisation of genuine AI changing the face of the workplace and how we collaborate with machines in new enterprises. What have we learned, if anything from the first 70 years? Tom Abram, Director of AIT reviews the observations of the first generation of tech leaders, seeking what will make the tech firm of the future successful. More importantly, he will be asking what you have learned and how those lessons might be applied.

Central banks have failed to issue money that is stable and stops climate change. Parliament should authorize private test issues of digital Great Depression self-liquidating money. It would become lifeboat money in the next pandemic lock down or when the financial system again fails. Tethered to an eternal sustainable wellbeing metric this simpler medium of exchange would stop climate change to eternally nurture humanity.Webinar poll - https://fsclub.zyen.com/feedback-forms/webinar-poll-questions/

Decarbonising energy systems to deliver sustainable energy futures is widely recognised as a global imperative but, unless local natural resources align with this objective, the technologies do not yet exist that allow communities to meet energy transition targets economically. For remote communities cut off from mainland infrastructure the energy transition journey may take several decades but every journey begins with the first steps.The island of Alderney has invested heavily, introducing advanced active network management to allow the integration of key energy assets at grid scale, creating the foundation for future transition to low carbon energy. This presentation looks at what has been achieved, at the journey that the community is embarking on and how a small island might become a vital sandpit for energy innovation.

Jayne Sibley is CEO and Co-Founder of Sibstar, the UK’s first debit card and app designed specifically for people living with dementia. A first-time founder, Jayne’s background is in marketing and communications for leading UK brands, including The Body Shop and BBC.Jayne launched Sibstar in 2023 after caring for her parents, both of whom were living with dementia. During this period, Jayne noticed a gap in the market for a financial product that would help people living with dementia to safely retain their financial independence for longer, and Sibstar was born.Sibstar recently appeared on Dragons’ Den, receiving significant investment that will supercharge its growth in 2024 and beyond. Working closely alongside its partners, Mastercard and Alzheimer’s Society, Jayne will be focused on scaling Sibstar in 2024, ensuring it is accessible to those who need it most.

Today, only 1% of demolition materials and products are reused, contributing to over 50% of London’s waste streams. Meanwhile, we continue to build a city the size of Paris every week. Building anything uses embodied carbon and the carbon clock is ticking. What can be done to change the built environment’s detrimental modus operandi? This session will delve into a transformative solution: commodities futures trading. By applying futures trading principles, the construction sector can overcome barriers to material reuse. With Circotrade’s Futures Trading Contract and Marketplace, property owners can plan for material reuse, creating a new tradeable asset class. Circotrade bridges the gap between real-estate investment and sustainability—unlocking the future value of secondary building materials while saving embodied carbon.

In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, it is more important than ever for financial institutions to stay ahead of the curve and offer tailored products and services that meet the unique needs of their customers. In this webinar, we discuss how financial services institutions are overcoming the challenges presented by traditional architectures, adopting AI and leveraging the independent software vendors (ISV) ecosystem.By considering a holistic unified customer view, companies are able to look at customer insights across a number of dimensions. There are ways and means to create this view, and this session will explore creating that capability, faster.