5 29.1 w 51.515111 n 0.091417 w 51.515111 ; 0.091417 z yen group industry consultancy think tank founded 1994 ; 22 years ago 1994 headquarters city of london geneva key people michael mainelli ian harris mark yeandle mary o callaghan website www.zyen.com z yen is a commercial think tank consultancy and venture firm headquartered in the city of london . it works in the financial services technology and voluntary sectors on a range of projects from research to performance review and strategic management . founded in 1994 and with associates around the world z yen has developed collaborative projects such as the london accord the global financial centres index the global intellectual property index for taylor wessing and taskforce 2000 the uk industry response to the millennium bug . the london accord and gfci are constituent programmes of z yen s long finance initiative which seeks to answer the question when would we know our financial system is working z yen conducts market research and intelligence . it publishes most of its research freely on its own website . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 early years 1994 2000 1.2 turn of the millennium 2000 2005 1.3 recent years 2 publications 2.1 books 2.2 reports 2.3 articles 2.4 regular indices 3 references 4 external links history edit early years 1994 2000 edit in its formative years z yen s research and consulting included work for british gas the london stock exchange the defense evaluation and research agency dera now dstl and qinetiq and bloomberg amongst others . z yen played a major part in the founding of taskforce 2000 the private sector initiative designed to alert people to the millennium bug . in 1996 z yen established the 1.9 m financial laboratory an innovative joint venture between bzw now barclays capital royal and sun alliance the london stock exchange dera now qinetiq city university city university business school the worshipful company of information technologists and silicon graphics . this project won a 750 000 dti foresight challenge award later that year . in the late nineties z yen s not for profit sector work became a major part of the business with extended work for cancer research campaign ben the children s society and others plus significant gains at british heart foundation and a major trade union . other work included undertaking a major pan european study into the market for otc derivatives outsourcing . turn of the millennium 2000 2005 edit 2001 saw the company receive significant recognition in the public arena with a version of z yen s bourse game played at st james palace as a part of a marine stewardship council event ; prizes were presented by hrh the prince of wales . z yen launched prophezy a predictive dynamic anomaly & pattern response dapr system in january 2003 receiving a 45 000 smart award from the department of trade and industry . vizzy a complementary visualisation system for prophezy was launched a year later . benchmarking became a significant section of z yen s work during this period with record numbers of investment banks and brokerages participating in 2003 . recent years edit in 2005 z yen was appointed by the institute of fundraising with partner business in the community to run the enquiry line and information centre for the payroll giving centre programme funded by the home office . z yen created its flagship global financial centres index for the city of london corporation in 2007 bringing it in house in 2010 . 2007 also saw z yen sell its investment banking cost per trade benchmarking subsidiary to aon and launch the london accord . this initiative with the help of over 50 financial service sector contributors looks to provide an open source research resource on finance and environmental social and governance esg issues . a year later z yen launched a way of measuring the immeasurable the global intellectual property index for the legal firm taylor wessing . recent years have seen z yen found the extzy game creating a stockmarket from the internet and pose the question when would we know our financial system is working though the long finance initiative . research has included index linked carbon bonds non monetary trade and confidence accounting . 2 towards the end of 2011 z yen decided to strengthen its international presence by establishing a swiss office in geneva . publications edit books edit clean business cuisine now and z yen 2000 3 information technology for the not for profit sector icsa publishing 2001 4 expertise search and deploy 2003 5 the road to long finance a systems view of the credit scrunch 2009 with bob giffords 6 the price of fish nicholas brealey publishing 2011 7 reports edit in search of the eternal coin a long finance view of history 2010 eternal brevities malcolm cooper 8 freely available online . time to stop betting the house mortgages resilience and the long finance 2010 finance shorts david steven 9 don t stop thinking about tomorrow the future of pensions 2010 finance shorts con keating 10 capacity trade and credit emerging architectures for commerce and money 2011 michael mainelli stephanie rochford and chiara von gunten 11 don t stop believing the state and future of uk occupational pensions 2011 finance shorts con keating 12 confidence accounting a proposal 2012 ian harris michael mainelli and jan peter onstwedder chartered institute for securities and investment cisi long finance association of chartered certified accountants acca 13 articles edit a regularly updated list of articles can be found in the knowledge section of the z yen website . regular indices edit global financial centres index 14 global intellectual property index 15 references edit welcome to z yen confidence accounting a proposal http www.zyen.com index.php knowledge books 279.html available free online http www.zyen.com index.php option com content & view article & id 281 & itemid 41 available to purchase in all good book ebook shops http www.zyen.com index.php option com content & view article & id 282 & itemid 41 available free online http www.zyen.com index.php knowledge books 26.html available free online http www.zyen.com index.php option com content & view article & id 743 available to purchase in all good book ebook shops cooper malcolm . in search of the eternal coin pdf . eternal brevities . retrieved 16 september 2012 . http www.longfinance.net publications betting the house.pdf available free online http www.longfinance.net publications future of pensions.pdf available free online http 217.154.230.218 nr rdonlyres 8887ba2d 4a2b 4936 a522 28f85953cf0b 0 bc rs capacitytradeandcredit fullreport web.pdf http www.longfinance.net index.php option com content & view article & id 485 available free online http www.longfinance.net images pdf confidence accounting1.pdf available free online gfci taylor wessing global ip index 2009 external links edit official website london accord city of london corporation the economist citation october 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