In this one-off special of the Core Insights Podcast from Warwick Business School, we’re doing something a bit different. Core Insights has teamed up with the Lead Out Loud team to dig deep into one of the most talked-about — and often misunderstood — topics in business today: leadership. Marking the release of the Core Insights Magazine: Leadership Edition, we brought together two leadership voices who bridge academic theory and real-world experience: · Associate Pr...

Core Insights host Trevor Barnes talks to Jonothan Neelands, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School, about his that work helped Coventry to develop its winning bid to become UK City of Culture in 2021. The City of Culture programme, and events such as the Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham in 2022, are seen as individual successes. However, the UK currently lacks a major events strategy to maximise the benefits of future events. Professor Neelands reveals how a framew...

In the final episode of this seven-part series in conjunction with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we are looking at Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and how they will work alongside cryptocurrencies. It has been argued in some quarters that the introduction of CBDCs will spell the end of cryptocurrencies. And that day seems to be drawing closer with CBDCs up and running in China and other central banks working out their own solution. Sure, it might make cryptos less rele...

In this latest episode of a seven-part series in conjunction with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we are looking at blockchain's potential impact on banking. Blockchain has been billed as potentially a huge disruption to the financial system, removing the middlemen for instant transactions. Recently JP Morgan announced it is using blockchain in India and bypassing SWIFT - the global system used by banks to transfer payments - and there are others like French investment bank BNP P...

In this fifth episode on fintech with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we look at Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) standards, which have become important to all businesses, especially as, according to the CBI, two-thirds of investors take ESG factors into account when investing in a company. Yet accusations of greenwashing are plaguing the ESG movement, while some companies have cottoned on to their importance and manipulated their ESG statistics to attract investors. So...

Since the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX - a centralised exchange or CEX - the popularity of decentralised exchanges, or DEXs, such as Uniswap or Orca, has soared. But which type of platform will win in the battle for crypto trading? What are the pros and cons of the different types of platform? And will it just be cryptos being traded in the future or other financial assets like real estate? This episode will explore the merits of CEX and DEX and seek to answer the central quest...

In the third episode of this special series on Fintech with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we look at decentralised finance, or DeFi. It offers financial instruments without relying on traditional intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks by using smart contracts on a blockchain. It could be revolutionary and take out a lot of costs that banks like to add, plus anybody can become a ‘bank’ and start lending money or cryptos, getting better rates than on the high stre...

In the second of this special series on Fintech with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology we look at cryptocurrency regulation or the lack of it. The crypto world has frequently been described as the Wild West, while the collapse of the FTX exchange with investors losing billions of dollars and founder Sam Bankman-Fried convicted of fraud, means regulators and regulations are closing in. What will this look like for a market that crosses borders? How will they work? Will they dampen i...

The first in a new seven-part series on Fintech with the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology, join your host Natasha de Teran, a former financial journalist and author of The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything, as we explore the world of digital currencies. Most central banks around the world are looking at introducing a digital currency or a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency), including the UK’s Bank of England. Indeed, China has already started experimenting with...

Nigel Driffield, Professor of International Business, has become a much sought after expert in foreign direct investment, leading the West Midlands strategy to attract investors from overseas and then Coventry and Warwickshire as the district sought to recover from the pandemic. Here, Professor Driffield reveals to Core Insights host Trevor Barnes the key policies and levers regional and national governments can use to attract foreign investment, creating jobs, boosting productivity and the e...