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Z/Yen is the City of London's leading commercial think-tank. Z/Yen was founded to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. Z/Yen has built its practice around a core of high-powered project managers, supported by experienced technical specialists so that clients get expertise they need, rather than just resources available. The firm is headquartered in London, but Z/Yen is committed to the ‘virtual office’ concept and is an intense user of technology in order to improve flexibility and benefit staff.

Z/Yen invites you to share your knowledge and expertise on the Wiki, contributing on topic’s from Confidence Accounting to Green Finance.

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Long Finance

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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.


Our 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


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Programmes:


London Accord

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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.

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Financial Centre Futures

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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 the 75 major financial centres across the world in terms of competitiveness.

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Meta-Commerce

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Meta-Commerce maps the road to Long Finance, by helping to identify a set of core questions that need solving in order to have a working financial system - linking 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.

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Eternal Coin

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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.

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Real Time Club

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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”.


ExtZy

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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.

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