51°30′45.2″N 0°5′18.3″W / 51.512556°N 0.088417°W
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Industry | Consultancy, Think-tank |
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Founded | 1994 |
Headquarters | King William Street, City of London |
Key people | Michael Mainelli
Ian Harris Mark Yeandle |
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 research, performance review and strategic management. Founded in 1994, Z/Yen has developed 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).[1]
Z/Yen conducts market research and intelligence. It publishes most of its research freely on its own website. Z/Yen is split into 2 parts; Long Finance for Pro bono work and The Financial Services Club (FSC) which provides networking dinners and events for city professionals. Z/Yen's executive chairman Michael Mainelli, in association with Michael F Smith, has been working with mutual distributed ledgers, or MDLs, since the early 90s. Due to this expertise and recent interest in MDLs, Z/Yen shifted much of its research and resources towards this developing technology and community.