Background: Perennial financial crises and scandals call for a change in culture. However, what is the role of science and ideology in shaping the modern institutions and education in the accounting and finance professions? In this seminar, award-winning scholar, broadcaster and lecturer, Professor Atul K. Shah will share his latest …

Background: In this discussion Hugh Morris, who has had a very long career in the City of London, will invite panellists to identify the three threat areas which each of them see as most critical to the future security and prosperity of the UK and allied Western countries. The conversation …

Background:The lecture will explore the role of social capital and connectivity in nurturing health, wealth and happiness, including through inter-generational progress and drawing on recent research in the field. It will also discuss how public policy might be refocussed to build social capital.Speaker:Andrew Haldane CBE is the Chief Executive of …

Background:Novel medical technologies are being introduced at unprecedented rates, demanding scientific evidence of their safety and efficacy at an unprecedented pace to ensure patient safety and benefit. With success in both in-vitro/in-vivo studies, products are tested on clinical trials assessing use in humans. Predicting low-frequency side effects has been difficult …

Background:The City has a long and profound history of an entrepreneurial mindset. It has innovation and invention in its DNA. Much of this has been driven by smart thinkers who are natural problem solvers, many of whom come from socially and educationally diverse backgrounds. I'd like to explore the hypothesis …

Background: In our next newspad review webinar chaired by Global Shares’ Darren Smith, we'll be discussing our pick of articles featured in recent editions of “It’s Our Business”, newspad of the Esop Centre.Chairman: Darren Smith, Head of Business Development for the UK & Ireland, Global SharesShare plans sector stalwart Darren …

Background:Modern multi-storey buildings in the City of London are usually supported on piled foundations; long columns of concrete that take the building loads into the ground. When sites are redeveloped each new building has tended to have a new set of deep foundations. This means that the ground is becoming …

Background: A regular speaker at the FS Club, EU Regulatory Expert David Doyle is back to give a new year update on the EU financial services regulatory agenda, which will cover: The EU Artificial Intelligence ActThe new EU AML AuthorityThe Crypto-Assets RegulationDigital Operational Resilience Act Speaker:Dr David Doyle is known …