GLBO 2021
Over the course of two days, over 1000 clients joined our flagship international conference to discuss and debate some of the most important legal, financial and cultural issues impacting their organisations across the globe.
Our Global legal and business outlook, formerly Autumn legal update, included topics over 40 virtual sessions, with live interactive Q and A sessions and polls.
We had several keynote sessions and were joined by notable speakers including;
- Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader
- Sonali Siriwardena, Head of Sustainability, Regulation, and Policy for Morgan Stanley
- Andy Hartwill, Simmons Client Insights Lead.
Our heartfelt thanks go to all of our external and internal speakers for the amazing insights they shared and the energy they brought to our international virtual meeting.
Over the next few pages, you'll see we've turned our session video recordings into podcasts for you to enjoy. Please bear in mind they may contain references to visual-only elements such as polls, that we discussed during the actual live session.
For more information about our next Global legal and business outlook in 2022, please get in touch.
Explore our GLBO 2021 content
Digital transformation
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Managing risk and race to recovery
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ESG
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Future of work
Strategic growth
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Regulatory change
Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader
"Our children and grandchildren will look back at this moment in time as one of the most exciting periods in the history of finance – a starting of a new era in global financial ecosystem transformation – the new normal."
GLBO 2021 podcast series
Listen to our podcast series below, or on any of your usual podcast apps.
Andy Hartwill, Client Insights Lead
"We see a future fraught with opportunity where the opportunity appears to lie more greatly with organisations which get their ESG strategy right across all 3 pillars."
Key takeaways from our keynote sessions
Rapid transformation in finance: Financial markets and commerce are undergoing an era of rapid transformation that will enable digitisation of all core banking functions and consumers are driving this change.
Crypto is here to stay and the size of the industry is staggering. Bitcoin alone is now trading over US$10bn per day, double that of the London Stock Exchange. The total value of NFTs (digital artwork) traded in the first half of 2021 was US$2,5bn. DeFi network (Decentralised Finance) now totals $200bn. These statistics indicate a rapidly growing industry that is becoming too hard to ignore.
ESG - no is longer a ‘soft’ reputational issue to be handled by the public relations teams but in fact goes to the heart of an organisation’s corporate purpose and how it conducts business and manages its talent.
Sonali Siriwardena, Head of Sustainability Regulation and Policy for Morgan Stanley
"There is great momentum surrounding COP26, as we are seeing real-world actors, such as companies, large investors, and cities, join the 110+ countries in setting net-zero targets for 2050. However, these combined targets still fall far short of the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Climate Accord. Hence a massive step change is required across markets and sectors to facilitate this transition using a regime of science-based targets."
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