This paper reports the outcome of a series of interviews and focus group meetings with professionals working in post-trade processing and the provision of mutual distributed ledger services. The objective was to elicit and document views on three research hypotheses about the potential impact of...

As the world continues to suffer the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, light is beginning to dawn with the advent of clinically proven vaccines, which will enable a return to ‘normailty’. However, around the globe, populations and politicians are questioning the type of ‘normality’ we...

The second edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 2) was published on 22 December 2020. SCI 2 rates the innovation and technology offerings of leading commercial and financial centres across the world.The SCI focuses on centres in relation to their approach to and delivery of innovation and...

The twenty-ninth edition of the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI 29) was published on 17 March 2021. GFCI 29 provides evaluations of future competitiveness and rankings for 114 financial centres around the world. The GFCI serves as a valuable reference for policy and investment...

The seventh edition of the Global Green Finance Index (GGFI 7) was published on 29 April 2021. GGFI 7 provides evaluations of the depth and quality of the green finance offerings of 78 major financial centres around the world. The GGFI serves as a valuable reference into the development of green...

The third edition of the Smart Centres Index (SCI 3) was published on 16 June 2021. SCI 3 rates the innovation and technology offerings of leading commercial and financial centres across the world.The SCI focuses on centres in relation to their approach to and delivery of innovation and...

The Long Finance and London Accord community (over 48 financial institutions, thousands of people in finance and some 250 reports since 2005) has developed a simple, almost subversive, proposal for on climate change finance – index-linked carbon bonds. An indexlinked carbon bond is a...

Public sector entities devote a tremendous amount of time to avoiding risk, especially political risk. It feels far safer to spend a large number of small sums of money on ten different studies, rather than solve one problem for the same cost. If a political problem arises, then the response...

Understanding the drivers of human behavior will help us,manage risks better. People, after all, design the processes,,build and implement the systems, and put in place the,organizational structures that lead to risk taking. People engineer the products, establish networks of suppliers, and...

The Not-for-Profit sector is a significant part of the economy. Not-for-Profit sector organisations have a duty to their stakeholders to provide evidence that they are using resources well. The authors have a few decades of Not-for-Profit client work and have conducted some original research...