Cass Entrepreneurs Network Event Focuses on “Unbundling the Bank”
The future significance of banks in society is in the hands of millenials, an audience at Cass Business School heard last week. Cass Entrepreneurs Network hosted a fintech event, entitled “Unbundling the Bank” on April 9th (in conjunction with Chinwag) to discuss disruption in the banking sector.
An expert panel, chaired by Ben Rooney (Co-Editor-in-Chief of tech news site Informilo), debated whether financial innovation is likely to be driven by the banks, start-ups, or through partnerships between them.
The panel agreed that the output of banks’ on-going digital transformation will depend on the extent to which they are seen as trusted by both millennials and, crucially, regulators.
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Saïd Business Scholar’s Report Details Findings on Millenials and Social Entrepreneurship
A new Saïd Business School report examining the views of millennials on the social role and responsibilities of business captures the growing international significance of social entrepreneurship. Drawing on the responses of more than 2000 young professionals (YPs), 40 business leaders and 500 social entrepreneurs in US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, China and South Africa, the report casts light on how global trends are influencing the values of tomorrow’s leaders, showing how they define success in their professional careers, and their views of the potential of social entrepreneurship to offer new business models which combine profit with positive social impact.
The report, (Redefining) Success in a Changing World, is authored by Soushiant Zanganehpour, a consultant at Saïd’s Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
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