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Liz Lumley sits down with Sophie Winwood, co-founder and CEO of WVC:E, and operating partner at Foxe Capital, to talk about start-ups, funding, fintech and… women.
Sophie also serves as the first contributor to The Banker exchange time capsule. Listen to the end to find out what she added.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and Alex Imas, professor of behavioural science and economics at Chicago Booth Business School.

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