Nick is managing director of Callund Consulting, founder and director of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and Radix, the think tank of the radical centre. Nick is a visiting fellow at Anglia Ruskin University and Cass Business School. Nick recently won The President’s Award for outstanding contribution to the Actuarial Profession and the Phiatus Award for an actuary who has made the most impressive charitable efforts. Nick’s book, Finance, Society and Sustainability was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

What is BRICS Pay, and can it rival the West’s SWIFT payments system?
The central theme of the BRICS bloc of nations is to push back against the global economic dominance of Western countries. That core value was very much at the centre





