Episodes

  • Have DEI Initiatives in the City of London Been Successful?
    Oct 17 2024

    In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Department, countless companies in cities everywhere responded to the worldwide uproar and Black Lives Matter movement by pledging more diversity, equity and inclusion. Bloomberg reporter Tiwa Adebayo, who has been investigating the progress of these initiatives across London, joins In the City to explain what’s happened in the four years since.

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    19 mins
  • Did Keir Starmer Manage to Settle the City’s Nerves?
    Oct 15 2024

    On this episode of Voternomics. hosts Stephanie Flanders, Allegra Stratton and Adrian Wooldridge are joined by reporter Ailbhe Rea to discuss Stephanie's exclusive interview with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the International Investment Summit in London, and his pushback over capital gains taxes.

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    30 mins
  • Can Labour Dial Back the Doom with the Investment Summit?
    Oct 10 2024

    Former Conservative minister Richard Harrington joins In the City to discuss Labour’s rhetoric and whether the party can bring back foreign investment. Plus, Bloomberg's Caroline Hepker on what the City makes of the government's first 100 days.

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    26 mins
  • How Canary Wharf Is Adjusting to a Work-From-Home World
    Oct 3 2024

    What will office districts do if back-to-the-office stalls? Canary Wharf Group Chief Executive Officer Shobi Khan explains how his company is revitalizing the famous center of finance on this episode of In the City.

    Canary Wharf, Khan tells hosts Francine Lacqua, David Merritt and Allegra Stratton, is no longer the “suit and tie” financial district of ten years ago. What was just blocks of banks now hosts residences, laboratories and cultural destinations, he says, with potential plans for a theater at the base of the HSBC tower.

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    19 mins
  • Interview with Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters: How Do You Finance the Fight Against Climate Change?
    Sep 26 2024

    Standard Chartered’s Bill Winters joins David Merritt and Francine Lacqua to talk climate finance, the UK’s Autumn Budget, and European M&A from the United Nations General Assembly.

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    22 mins
  • Why Labour's Growth Plan Has a Thames Water-Sized Hole
    Sep 19 2024

    The UK’s new Labour government is pinning its hopes for growth on private investment in everything from green energy to housing, but there’s an unexpected stick in the spokes: Thames Water. Since the debt-ridden water company was declared “uninvestable” by its shareholders in March, foreign investors have been asking: If the monopoly provider of a bare necessity to nearly a quarter of the UK’s population doesn’t yield guaranteed returns, then what does?

    On this episode of In the City, UK economy reporter Philip Aldrick and corporate finance reporter Abhinav Ramnarayan discuss with host Francine Lacqua how the collapse of what should be a safe investment has spooked foreign investors, and how the new Labour government can woo them back.

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    18 mins
  • Is Kamala Harris Better for American Business?
    Sep 18 2024

    Ralph Schlosstein, chairman emeritus of Evercore, joins to discuss what Harris and Trump administrations would mean for boardrooms.

    Plus, crypto reporter Emily Nicolle joins to discuss why former President Donald Trump seems to have had a change of heart on the digital currency he once denounced as a “scam.”

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    36 mins
  • Why the Super Rich Are Thinking of Leaving the UK
    Sep 12 2024

    Editor Katherine Griffiths and reporter Ben Stupples join to discuss the growing number of the UK's ultra-wealthy people considering an exit, what's driving them away and why the government should care.

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    22 mins