As the IMF and World Bank spring meetings get underway in Washington, Aliya Shibli talks with John Everington about the challenges surrounding the 21st replenishment process of the International Development Association, following her interview with Akihiko Nishio, the World Bank’s vice-president of development finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Liz Lumley and Amalia Illgner sit down with Keith Bear, fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, to discuss whether tokenisation can enhance the functioning of the monetary system. They also discuss the recently launched Project Agorá from the Bank for International Settlements that builds on its unified ledger concept and whether Swift should be worried by these developments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Michael Klimes and Aliya Shibli sit down with Liz Lumley to talk about how a bad reputation for excessive work hours, lack of broader purpose and growing competition from other industries is forcing investment banks to change to attract young talent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

This week, Liz Lumley and Anita Hawser sit down with Emma Hagan, chief risk and compliance officer at ClearBank (and soon to be UK CEO), and former chief risk officer for Emea at SVB to talk about why she feels it is inevitable that another bank collapse of the kind that brought down SVB will happen again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

This week, Liz Lumley sits down with Sarah Kocianski, CEO of FinTech Wales, to talk about how lack of progress sits alongside the celebrations around International Women’s Day, the new CEO at Starling Bank, and her plans for the fintech hub in Wales. The research statistics mentioned in the podcast are from the paper Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement, published by the US National Bureau of Economic Research and authored by J. Aislinn Bohren, associate professor in the economics department at Penn; Peter Hull, professor of economics at Brown University and a facult ..read more

In 2019, Jusan Bank (then Tsesna Bank) was pushed to insolvency — all due to precarious banking practices and a lack of regulatory supervision. But, through adopting the ecosystem business model, Jusan achieved $1.2bn in profits, acquired 1mn new customers and paved the way for an initial public offering in London. At the helm of this turnaround was Yerbol Orynbayev. Guest: Yerbol Orynbayev, independent financial services consultant, former deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan and former chair of the board of directors of Jusan Bank and Heartland Securities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co ..read more

Liz Lumley is joined by Mark Higgins, a financial historian, senior investment advisor and author of Investing in US Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future. He talks about the economic history of the US, from 1790 to today, managing past crises, and the challenges facing the US today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Liz Lumley and Kimberley Long discuss how fintech has changed in the past 10 years, where fintech hubs work best, how events can promote diversity better, and Starling Bank founder Anne Boden’s new book which offers a playbook for female entrepreneurs.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Liz Lumley sits down with Farah Khalique, editor of Banking Risk & Regulation, to discuss growing calls for stronger oversight of the UK’s financial services regulators, with some experts saying that the FCA may be ripe for reform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Liz Lumley and John Everington sit down to talk about the impact of FATF’s grey list. Ahead of FATF’s plenary in Paris next week, how influential are the body’s grey and black lists for the international banking industry? Meanwhile in the UK, Barclays acquires the bulk of Tesco’s supermarket bank offering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more