Andy Haldane is Executive Director for Financial Stability. Andy has responsibility for developing Bank policy on financial stability issues and the management of the Financial Stability Area. He is a member of the newly established Interim Financial Policy Committee as well as several senior management committees of the Bank. He is also a member of the Basel Committee.

Andy joined the Bank in 1989. In previous roles he has headed the Bank’s work on risk assessment, market infrastructure and on international finance. Prior to that he worked on various issues regarding monetary policy strategy, inflation targeting and central bank independence.

Andy has written extensively on domestic and international monetary and financial stability, authoring around 100 articles and three books. He is the co-founder of a charity 'Pro Bono Economics', which aims to broker economists into projects in the charitable sector.

 Payments:- latest developments and future potential

Background:
The world of payments continues to transform and as more and more of the world becomes mobile connected and devices provide for new means and ways to effect payments, so competition in the market continues to change.

Who will be the winners in this race to grab share of wallet and to make payments secure, safe and certain.

Our  speaker is an expert in the area and provide a unique opportunity to connect with the latest thinking and developments.

Roy Vella 
Roy Vella is a mobile payments expert and the Non-Executive Director at txt2buy Ltd, a new universal mobile sales channel enabling consumers topurchase instantly from any offline or online advertising.  Previously, Roy has worked with many respected names in the mobile and payments industry including Visa, Vodafone, RBS and PayPal with experience spanning across 20+ years.  While at PayPal, Roy was head of Mobile for PayPal Europe and helped

jump-start multiple new businesses within PayPal during his employment there. The first of which was Merchant Services by building the team and driving large channel partnership deals. Next, PayPal's launch into the travel space and finally with mobile in Europe. Prior to PayPal, Roy has served in various startup/VC roles from Partner/Co-founder to VP of Sales &Marketing.  Also active in the non-profit, education and arts arena, Roy serves as a Board Member for the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and is an active alumni for the school in a number of regards. Roy has also served as Board President for Variety Children's Charity of Northern California as well as Board Treasurer for Bay Area Theater Sports Improv.

In terms of education, Roy holds a BA in Mathematics (with High Honors) from Holy Cross College, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an MBA (with certificates in Global & Public Management) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Roy's specific expertise lies in strategy and business development and sales and marketing. Roy creates possibilities through partnerships, products and people, with a successful track record developing ideas into businesses and individuals into teams.

Roy is an industry expert in the area of mobile and can provide expert comment on the mobile industry including new product innovations and developments.

The session will be followed by drinks, canapes and networking.
 

The next CAS-WG plenary session will be held on Wednesday 30 May, 2 – 5pm at The London Stock Exchange, 10 Paternoster Square, EC4M 7LS where we will update you on the progress of each subject group to date and will formally request nominations for the chair and co-chair of each Subject Group plus other key roles.

The following planned plenary session will take place in mid July at BT's offices in Newgate Street, London EC4.

The media has a regular debate about greed and corruption in the City of London.  With insider trading cases rife; the FSA clamping down; whistleblowers appearing by the minute; and a Bribery Act that is meant to strike the fear of God in all those engaged in such activities; 2012 has seen such practices becoming rarer and harder to practice than ever before.  Or has it?  Two leading commentators on the financial markets take a microscopic view of greed and corruption in the City and determined if it really does exist and, if so, in what form.

Nick Kochan is one of the UK's leading authorities on white-collar crime, on corruption, and on market abuse. He has been observing and commenting on abuse of the financial markets and institutions for over 20 years and is the author of many books about white-collar crime.  His latest book, Corruption, explores the risks, remedies and responses to corruption and bribery in corporations, and provides unique insight into law enforcement's thinking and practices in dealing with suspected events.

Ian Fraser is a journalist, blogger and broadcaster on all aspects of business, finance, politics and economics.  His articles appear regularly in the Financial Times, BBC News, The Sunday Times, The Herald/Sunday Herald, Thomson Reuters and Dow Jones.  Since March 2009, Ian has been researching and helping to produce documentary programs about the banking and financial crisis for the BBC. These have included RBS: Inside The Bank That Ran Out of Money, shown on BBC2 in December 2011. Ian is also a consulting editor and blogger on Bloomsbury Publishing PLC’s QFinance project, and an associate lecturer at the University of Stirling.

Geraint Anderson is the bestselling author of Cityboy, which sold over 200,000 copies, after a successful career working for varous banks in the City.  Geraint will tell us the inside track on how investmenb banking really works and attendees will also receive a copy of his latest masterpiece: Payback Time.

Payback Time tells the story of Cityboy Steve Jones, who is outraged when Bridget is found dead after being fired by her bank.  Everyone thinks she committed suicide, but Steve does not and so he and five City workmates decide to take revenge. They hatch an ingenious plan to sabotage her firm and succeed in bringing it to its knees. After wildly celebrating their success, Bridget's boyfriend Fergus insists they take down a much more prominent bank. But soon the gang are being targeted by the police and financial regulators. There must be a rat in their midst but, if so, who? Steve investigates and digging deeper realises he could be on the trail of a murderer. Suddenly there's a distinct possibility that an even bigger revenge is being planned and this time the pay back is heading in his direction...

Geraint Anderson began his career as a utilities analyst, composing models of publicly listed companies.  In 1997 he moved to Société Générale, and in 1999 to Commerzbank.  In 2000, Anderson joined Dresdner Kleinwort and was named top stock-picker two years running, appointed joint team leader of the utilities research team, and the team became number two in the utilities sector with Anderson personally judged the fourth highest-ranked analyst (out of around 100)

Anderson started writing his City Boy column in the third quarter of 2006 for thelondonpaper, which became a popular piece with some readers of the newly launched free newspaper.  On 18 June 2008, it was revealed that Anderson was the columnist City Boy of thelondonpaper and the following week he published his first book: Cityboy: Beer And Loathing In The Square Mile.

You may not know Laurens Vis yet, but you will certainly remember him.  A Dutchman with a strong command of humour and wit, he will engage us in a clear view of where and what is happening in the Eurozone for the future and whether it really is leading somewhere or nowhere.

Laurens Vis is the Managing Director of KAS BANK UK, an independent European specialist in securities services. In addition to steering KAS BANK’s strategy in the UK market, Laurens holds overall responsibility for UK sales and acquisition, relationship management, and product and market development.  During his distinguished 26-year career at KAS BANK, Laurens has held a number of director-level positions.

Laurens holds a doctorate in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, and is a former member of both the Euronext User Steering Committee and the International Society of Securities Administrators (ISSA).

Professor Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris are regular guests of the Financial Services Club, and are invited back to close this season with an engaging discussion about the Price of Fish.

In their new book, The Price of Fish, Michael and Ian examine the world’s problems and suggest that it is not the circumstances that are too complex, but our way of reading them that is too simple. Too simple and often wrong.  Looking to the models developed by quantum physicists, they blend four streams of thinking around choice, economics, systems and evolution, in a combination they believe is the key to making better decisions and, in turn, finding answers to the world’s most wicked problems.

Michael Mainelli co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology.  He is Professor Emeritus of Commerce and a Fellow at Gresham College, Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics Department of Management Information Systems & Innovation Group, a non-executive Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service - the UK’s sole accreditation body for certification, testing, inspection and calibration services, a non-executive Director of Sirius Exploration Plc - a mining company, a Trustee of Ocean Alliance & The Whale Conservation Institute in Massachusetts & The International Fund For Animal Welfare, on the editorial board of the Journal of Strategic Change as well as the Journal of Business Strategy and on numerous advisory boards.

Ian Harris is a Director of Z/Yen which he co-founded in 1994. At Z/Yen, Ian specialises in strategic planning and systematic performance improvement in both the not-for-profit sector (which he leads) and also commercial sectors.  Prior to Z/Yen, Ian led Binder Hamlyn's management consultancy's financial management systems work. Ian is a regular contributor of articles and pieces for the business and not-for-profit press. He is co-author, together with Michael Mainelli, of the practical book "IT for the Not-for-Profit Sector" and the best-selling novel "Clean Business Cuisine".