An Audience With
Sophie Kennedy: ‘Becoming CEO of a wealth manager at 33 didn’t faze me’
The co-CEO of EQ Investors has weathered Trump and the ESG backlash. Now comes another challenge as its founder considers selling the business
Bank of England director David Bailey: Cap on bankers’ bonuses was a bad idea
Threadneedle Street’s number two on prudential policy discusses government pressure to grow and why pay limits were a bad idea
5 min read
Foresight’s Bernard Fairman: ‘We need a UK Elon Musk’
The private equity manager’s co‑founder says London’s markets have many problems, including tedious reporting rules, but it takes a lot to beat the City
5 min read
Simmons & Simmons boss on stepping down: ‘Hope people don’t say, “That bastard Hoyland has left me with this problem”’
Simmons & Simmons’s boss is stepping down and heading to Italy for a new role. He hopes he’s left the law firm in good shape and ready to deal with AI
6 min read
Allspring CEO Joe Sullivan: ‘Breaking away from Wells Fargo was a seminal moment’
Allspring’s CEO says he’s looking to grow the asset manager internationally. Is he worried his private equity backers might have shorter term plans?
5 min read
Jeremy Taylor: ‘The shape of the industry has changed permanently’
The CEO of Lazard Asset Management talks about the challenges for the sector, the impact of the Magnificent Seven and his alternative career option
5 min read
Revisit FN’s biggest interviews from 2024
Top bankers, lawyers and private equity executives graced our pages this year
2 min read
Standard Chartered’s Diego De Giorgi: ‘It’s important to invest when you’re winning’
Standard Chartered’s CFO on ‘trying something new’, boosting the share price and the importance of cross-selling
6 min read
An Audience with JPMorgan’s Filippo Gori: ‘We’re looking at things that haven’t been touched for 20 years’
JPMorgan’s new co-head of global banking is not just taking over the role, but embarking on a big overhaul of the Wall Street bank’s business
9 min read
BNP Paribas’s Emmanuelle Bury-Lucas: ‘We really had no role models to follow’
One of the few female leaders of a major bank, the head of BNP Paribas’s City operations wants to ensure no woman gets left behind in the AI revolution
5 min read
Railpen’s Caroline Escott: Up your audit game, or we might divest
The Railways Pension Scheme wants to use its £34bn in assets to improve audits – it could pull money, vote against directors and more
5 min read
Forterro’s Dean Forbes: ‘I don’t burn calories on emotional fear’
Voted the UK’s most powerful Black man, Forbes’s career started out in telesales after football failure. He has risen through the ranks in tech and private equity
FRC boss Richard Moriarty on breaking up the Big Four and audit’s ‘dark place’
A year into the role, the head of the audit watchdog wants to help turn the sector around
Stonehage Fleming chair Anton Sternberg on going from James Bond to global adviser
Stonehage Fleming’s clients include the descendants of the famous spy’s creator. But the wealth manager’s UK chair says it eschews glamour in favour of the fundamentals
Cleary Gottlieb boss Michael Gerstenzang: ‘The obsession with pay is overblown’
The elite US law firm’s managing partner says lawyers are motivated by more than money as a war for talent rages
‘I thought I was going to die I had so much work’: Sebastian Grigg on mental health, Bullingdon and more
The former Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse dealmaker talks breakdowns, standing as an MP and what comes next
5 min read
SIX’s Bjørn Sibbern: ‘We can’t just sit and wait for Brussels to wake up’
SIX’s global head has spent most of his career in Nordic capital markets. Now he’s looking to bring some Scandinavian learnings to the rest of Europe
5 min read
Banker bonus cap ‘rewarded mediocrity’ says ex-City minister
John Glen says the limit ‘was never rational’, and worries how a tax raid by Labour could damage the sector
6 min read
LSEG boss David Schwimmer: ‘The exchange is only a part of who we are’
LSEG’s CEO has transformed the group. Now he must convince others it is more than a stock exchange
8 min read
RBC BlueBay’s Erich Gerth: ‘It’s one thing to buy a manager, it’s another to integrate it’
The chief executive of RBC BlueBay Asset Management talks about how to handle a merger, decriminalising mistakes and embracing diversity
5 min read