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Z/Yen is the City of London's leading commercial think-tank, founded to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Built around a core of high-powered project managers supported by experienced technical specialists, Z/Yen helps clients get the expertise they need, rather than just resources available. Although the firm is headquartered in London, Z/Yen is committed to the ‘virtual office’ concept and is an intense user of technology in order to improve flexibility.
Z/Yen invites you to share your knowledge and expertise on the Wiki, contributing on topics from Confidence Accounting to Green Finance.
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Long Finance
When would we know our financial system is working? The Long Finance initiative aims to improve society’s understanding and use of finance over the long term. Our time-frame is 100 years.
Objectives
- expand frontiers - develop methodologies to solve financial problems
- change systems - provide evidence-based examples of how financing methods work and don’t work
- deliver services - including conferences and training using collaborative tools
- build communities - through meeting, networking and events
- Upcoming Events
- Join the Long Finance Online Community
Programmes:
London Accord
Recognising that today's extra financial issues are tomorrow's key investment drivers, the London Accord acts as a nexus between the financial services industry and society to encourage long-term thinking on finance and environmental, social & governance (ESG) issues.
- Wiki Articles
- Recent Reports
- Join the London Accord group
Financial Centre Futures
The Financial Centre Futures program seeks to initiate discussion on the changing landscape of global finance and explore how it might work in the future. The flagship project of the program is the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI). This is a bi-annual publication, first produced by the Z/Yen Group in March 2007, which examines 75 major financial centres across the world in terms of competitiveness.
- Top Financial Centre – London, New York or Hong Kong?
- Take the Global Financial Centres Index Questionaire
- Download the latest GFCI Reports
- Join the Financial Centre Futures group
Meta-Commerce
Meta-Commerce maps the road to Long Finance, by identifying a set of core questions that need solving in order to have a working financial system. The program links economics, finance and society. Inspired by David Hilbert's 23 questions project of 1900, the Meta-Commerce programme aims to use this framework of questions to help prioritise future research and direct action.
- Questions for the future of finance
Eternal Coin
The Eternal Coin programme aims to initiate a global discussion on the nature of money and the concept of value. It takes a long-term and inter-generational approach and is an educative programme teaching the theory and mechanics of currencies.
ExtZy
ExtZy is a prediction market game created by Z/Yen, which makes a market out of web-pages. Players can buy shares in those sites that they think will grow in popularity, and then trade their dividends in for real prizes.
Real Time Club
Founded in 1967, the Real Time Club is believed to be the world’s oldest IT dining Club. The Club is dedicated to participative events that provide “rapid responses to the challenges of the information society”.
