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When
Tuesday, January 18th from 12pm to 1.30pm UK timeWhere
Online symposium via Zoom.Format
There'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate.Why you should attend
The big lesson from the Global Financial Crisis is that deregulation leads to disaster. We learned that very painful lesson so well that it could never be forgotten again, right? Wrong!
The latest evidence of our ability to forget painful lessons learned comes in the form of HM Treasury’s “Future Regulatory Framework Review.” It contains proposals about “competitiveness and growth” that seem harmless enough on the surface but that’s not the full picture. Beneath the surface there are signs that the proposals will lead to a “race to the bottom” and an even-more-conflicted regulatory framework that will be under even more pressure to promote the short-term interests of the banks and the City of London over and above the long-term interests of society as a whole.
You can download the joint statement below:
FRF CSO Joint Statement (Embargoes 00.01 Fri 4 Feb)
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You can download a PDF of the Press Release Regarding Joint Statement below:
Press Release Regarding Joint Statement
Here's the programme and timings so far...
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Welcome to the symposium, introductions and initial exploration of the main issues; by
Andy Agathangelou
Founder, Transparency Task Force; Governor, Pensions Policy Institute; Chair, Secretariat Committee, APPG on Pension Scams; Chair, Secretariat Committee, APPG on Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services; Chair of the Violation Tracker UK Advisory Board
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David Pitt-Watson
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School
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JB Beckett
Non Executive Director & Author of “New Fund Order”
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Nicholas Shaxson
Author, journalist, investigator and co-founder of the Balanced Economy, an anti-monopoly organisation
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Professor David Llewellyn
Professor of Money and Banking; and former regulator
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Marloes Nicholls
Head of Policy and Advocacy, Finance Innovation Lab
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Mark Bishop
Leader, Connaught Action Group
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*The programme will continuously evolve so is subject to change.
David Pitt-Watson
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Business
David is Co-Author of ‘The Purpose of Finance’, ‘What they do with your Money’ and several other books. He Co-Chaired the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, and led the Royal Society of Arts Tomorrow’s Investor Project. David is the Treasurer of Oxfam, a Board-member at NESTA and is recognised globally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of responsible investment and business practice.
David is a winner of the Transparency Trophy and his ground-breaking work on ‘Purpose’ was the initial inspiration behind the creation of Team PISCES. David is a frequent speaker at TTF events.
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JB Beckett
Non Executive Director & Author of “New Fund Order”
Ex Investment gatekeeper, evangelical NED, author of New Fund Order and host of the New Fund Order podcast NewFundOrder.Buzzsprout.com JB Beckett has long challenged asset management as it confronts rapid technology disruption and the dysfunctions of the human condition. #newfundorder.
Affectionately known as JB, Jon Beckett was a well known and outspoken professional fund investor and analyst for two decades until he retired in 2018. His CV included assessing asset managers and the world’s largest single asset mandate (£109bn) for Lloyds Banking Group where he was also co-Lead if its Responsible Investing framework for the Insurance division.
As a Non Executive Director (NED) JB continues to be a vocal campaigner for better fund governance and value. A campaigner for professionalism and better standards in fund investing and due diligence; as Emeritus of the Association of Professional Fund Investors he previously led a global team to tackle issues arising from transparency, sustainability and technology. As Author of ‘#NewFundOrder’ and Co-Author of ‘The WealthTec Book’ and ‘Paytech Book’ JB has been a thought leader in the digitalisation and sustainability of asset management, speaking and writing globally.
A dedicated educator, JB is a guest lecturer at Stirling and Herriot Watt Universities and has written textbooks up to NQ Level 7 for the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, with which he is Chartered and a member of its disciplinary panel. He is a member of the Stirling Student Investment Managed Fund oversight committee and a NED for Royal London and SVM Limited.
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Nicholas Shaxson
Author, journalist, investigator and co-founder of the Balanced Economy, an anti-monopoly organisation
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor David Llewellyn
Professor of Money and Banking; and former regulator
Professor Llewellyn has an international reputation in the theory and practice of financial regulation, the analysis of financial crises, and the business strategies of financial institutions.
He has previously worked at the UK Treasury and the International Monetary Fund and has been a consultant to several international organisations in the theory and practice of financial regulation, and to financial firms in the area of business strategies.
Until recently he was Chairman of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority (the pan-EU regulatory agency for banking). He previously served as a Public Interest Director of the UK’s Personal Investment Authority which was responsible for the regulation of retail financial services until succeeded by the Financial Services Authority.
He has published widely (including over 20 books) in the areas of financial regulation, financial crises, and business strategies and models of financial firms. He serves on the editorial boards of several finance journals an often contributes to media outlets.
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Marloes Nicholls
Head of Policy and Advocacy, Finance Innovation Lab
Marloes leads the Lab’s work to build the power of civil society organisations to influence finance-related regulation, law and policy, to ensure that the rules of the game are reoriented around social and environmental purpose. She ran Lab Fellowship – a unique incubator for financial innovations that put social and environmental purpose at their heart – from 2016-2019.
In recognition of her contribution to policymaking and regulation, she was included on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2020. She regularly speaks about rapid technological change underway in finance, and what that means for people and planet. Recent examples include the ABCUL annual conference, The ODI Summit, The Alan Turing Institute’s AI Ethics in Finance conference, and teaching the data ethics module of Cranfield University’s new MSc in Retail and Digital Banking.
Before joining the Lab, Marloes was Programme Manager and Researcher at the think tank Meteos, and co-founder and director of the campaign Move Your Money UK. She also worked at Oxfam on global campaigns and policy. An economist by training, Marloes graduated from Nuffield College, University of Oxford, with a Masters of Philosophy in 2011 and received a first class bachelors in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bristol in 2008.
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Mark Bishop
Leader, Connaught Action Group
Mark advises the Transparency Task Force leadership team on strategy matters. Having entered the world of financial services consumer advocacy in 2012 as de facto leader of the Connaught Action Group and member of the liquidators’ committee of the Connaught Income Fund Series 1, Mark now works with the principals of other action groups and lobbies regulators and politicians to improve the regulatory environment. Having worked as a journalist, media company executive, strategy consultant and corporate finance advisor, Mark holds an MBA from Cranfield University School of Management (where he is now a Visiting Fellow) and sits on the Advisory Board of the MBA programme at Sussex University, where he gained his first degree. He is also the author of a business book, The Future of Private Equity – Beyond the Mega Buy-Out.
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