Welcome to Label Sessions Presents... a conversational roundtable with our team and Labelmates, new and old, to discuss and bring their unique perspectives to news and thought-provoking stories across the globe in business and beyond.

This week, join Nick Sherrard, Fuzlin Esau and Josh Nixon of Label Sessions alongside Labelmates Rafael Castelo Branco, Tim Metz and Hilde Franzsen to showcase their stories as well as delve into the latest happenings in music, tech, sustainability, and more.

The full list of stories mentioned in this episode you can find out more about here:

American investors had a panic about the rise of Chinese AI with the release of Deepseek’s new model in recent weeks.

In the rest of the world, do we think US AI firms still have an advantage over Chinese firms? Do we think it’s even worth talking in those terms?

https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/china-deepseek-ai-founder-background?utm_source=%2Fbrowse%2Ftechnology&utm_medium=reader2

CEOs are losing their jobs faster and faster, why is CEO turnover so high?

At the same time, for the first time since 2007, more young people in the US are fed up with their jobs than older workers.

Has something gone wrong in the modern corporation?

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/ceo-turnover-jumps-to-new-high-7141410/

https://archive.is/2025.01.27-091405/https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-employee-engagement-workplace-morale-careers-boomers-gen-x-2025-1

Blackrock has created a fund to allow investors to back ‘climate improvers’ as well as purely green companies.

Should ESG always guide us to showcase and invest in the greenest of companies? Or is it important to back companies making a transition?

https://www.esgtoday.com/blackrock-launches-first-fund-using-fcas-sustainability-improvers-label-targeting-brown-to-green-materials-opportunities/

Mastercard say the future of payments is tokenization

Is this the future of payments? Where might we see this future emerge first?

https://wired.me/business/future-for-payments-mastercard-tokenization/

Is the luxury as a category back on the rise?

LVMH’s financial results might suggest that things are looking up.

But also what is luxury now? The NFL now has a fashion director and high end designers and sport are getting closer and closer.

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/luxury-sector-eyes-rebound-6302644/

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