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THE MESSAGE FROM CBDCS TO PAYMENTS BANKS IS INNOVATE OR DIE CBDCS PART III (21st July 2021)

A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH CENTRAL BANKS, BANKS, REGULATORS, TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AND DIGITAL ASSET INFRASTRUCTURE PARTICIPANTS

Wednesday July 21 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time

TIME TO DECIDE: BACK TO THE OFFICE OR STAY AT HOME (13th July 2021)

TIME TO DECIDE: BACK TO THE OFFICE OR STAY AT HOME (13th July 2021) A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH PROPERTY EXPERTS, HR ADVISERS, REAL ESTATE COMPANIES, PROPERTY INVESTORS AND LENDERS, AND DATA EXPERTS Tuesday July 13 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time The Goldman Sachs CEO has described remote working as an aberration and wantsContinue reading “TIME TO DECIDE: BACK TO THE OFFICE OR STAY AT HOME (13th July 2021)”

Former SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran discuss their newly published study of the payments industry (29th June 2021)

If you have ever wondered how the global payments industry has made some people very rich indeed, read The Payoff, the new book by former SWIFT CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt and former SWIFT Head of Corporate Affairs Natasha de Terán, published on 1 July.

Whatever happened to blockchain in the bond markets? (30th June 2021)

A Future of Finance webinar with bond market professionals, exhangces, infrastructure providers, technology and blockchain companies. Wednesday June 30 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Back in the blockchain heyday of 2016-18 there was no shortage of schemes to apply the technology to primary market issuance, bond market trading, and post-trade settlement and financing. SomeContinue reading “Whatever happened to blockchain in the bond markets? (30th June 2021)”

Greensill is gone but bad habits in trade finance have not (17th June 2021)

A Future of Finance webinar with trade finance bankers, corporates, technology vendors and fintechs. Thursday June 17 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Questions posed from the October 2020 discussion and will provide the framework for the June 2021 discussion: How can digital technology help trade finance restore lost capacity? What can regulators do toContinue reading “Greensill is gone but bad habits in trade finance have not (17th June 2021)”

Custodians have the power to make security tokenisation happen (8th June 2021)

A Future of Finance webinar with custodians, blockchain technologists, settlement institutions, regulators and traders of digital assets Tuesday June 8 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Questions posed from the October 2020 discussion and will provide the framework for the next discussion in June 2021: Panellists: Stephen Richardson VP Head of Product Strategy and Business Solutions at Fireblocks https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen–richardson/Continue reading “Custodians have the power to make security tokenisation happen (8th June 2021)”

Why is Foreign Exchange so far behind in technology and data? (25th May 2021)

[MAY 2021] A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH BANKS, ASSET MANAGERS, TECHNOLOGISTS, REGULATORS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE EXPERTS Tuesday May 25 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time Despite their importance, size and liquidity the global FX markets have remained largely immune to the digital technology revolution. The reasons for this include their global scale, amorphous and fragmentedContinue reading “Why is Foreign Exchange so far behind in technology and data? (25th May 2021)”

WEALTH MANAGERS NEED TO DISRUPT THEMSELVES (20th May 2021)

WEALTH MANAGERS NEED TO DISRUPT THEMSELVES (20th May 2021) A FUTURE OF FINANCE WEBINAR WITH WEALTH MANAGERS, PRIVATE BANKS AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES Thursday May 20 2021, 14.00 – 15.00 UK time On the face of it, wealth managers ought to be full of confidence. An ageing population is about to bequeath its accumulated wealth to aContinue reading “WEALTH MANAGERS NEED TO DISRUPT THEMSELVES (20th May 2021)”

Without better data pension funds cannot possibly fulfil their ESG mandates (18th May 2021)

Pension fund trustees in the United Kingdom are now under a fiduciary obligation to manage environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks on behalf of the members of the fund. This is not an easy duty to fulfil.

A Future of Finance Case Study: How peer-to-peer lending platform StepLadder raised money, built its platform and went to market (6th May 2021)

StepLadder is a fintech start-up currently embarked on a crowd-funding campaign to fuel its growth as a peer-to-peer borrowing and lending platform for first-time buyers. The company is currently growing its membership by 13 per cent a month and already planning to extend its techniques and technology beyond the housing market. Join the founders atContinue reading “A Future of Finance Case Study: How peer-to-peer lending platform StepLadder raised money, built its platform and went to market (6th May 2021)”