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TheCityUK
TheCityUK is a private-sector membership body and industry advocacy group promoting the financial services, financial and related professional services industry of the United Kingdom (UK). TheCityUK is often referred to as the industry's "most powerful" or "most prominent" lobbyists with close links to the UK Government and to policymakers in Brussels and Washington. Although 'The City' in the UK usually refers to the City of London, one of the world's Global Financial Centres Index, foremost financial centres, the organisation also represents the industry throughout the UK. As a business-led body, TheCityUK is distinct from the City of London Corporation which is the local government administrative body for the district of London which contains the traditional heart of the city's financial services industry, sometimes referred to as the City of London, Square-Mile. The organisation focuses on three main areas: * Overseas promotion: it promotes the UK overseas as a world-class c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Carnegie-Brown
Bruce Neil Carnegie-Brown (born 27 December 1959) is vice chairman of Banco Santander and the former Chair of the insurance market Lloyd's of London, from 2017-2025. He is also chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club, Cuvva Ltd, and is chair of the Leadership Council of TheCityUK. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Greater London in 2015. Early life and education Bruce Carnegie-Brown was born on 27 December 1959 in Freetown, Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, British Sierra Leone. His father was an engineer and tobacco executive, and the family relocated often, including to Libya, Jordan, Tanzania and Malaysia. He attended Cheltenham College, in 1973 and leaving in 1977. In 1977, he won a scholarship to study English Language and Literature at Exeter College, Oxford, Exeter College, University of Oxford, Oxford matriculating in 1978 and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1981. Career After leaving university, Carnegie-Brown spent four years at Bank of Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Services
Financial services are service (economics), economic services tied to finance provided by financial institutions. Financial services encompass a broad range of tertiary sector of the economy, service sector activities, especially as concerns financial management and consumer finance. The finance industry in its most common sense concerns commercial banks that provide market liquidity, derivative (finance), risk instruments, and broker, brokerage for large public company, public companies and multinational corporations at a macroeconomics, macroeconomic scale that impacts domestic politics and foreign relations. The extragovernmental power and scale of the finance industry remains an ongoing controversy in many industrialized Western economies, as seen in the American Occupy Wall Street civil protest movement of 2011. Styles of financial institution include credit union, bank, savings and loan association, trust company, building society, brokerage firm, payment processor, many ty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Wigley
Robert (Bob) Wigley, OStJ, BSc, HonDBA, FCA, CCMI, is Chairman of UK Finance, a Non Executive Director of R3 LLC and Lightico Ltd, an Executive Member of Seraphim Space Enterprise LLP and is an investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is an Honorary Professor of King's College London in the Digital Futures Institute. He is author of a book about the effects of technology on Gen Z, ''Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted generation''. He is a non-executive director of the Qatar Financial Centre. He was a Founding Global Britain Commissioner during its life, is a member of the Trade Advisory Group for Financial Services at the Department for International Trade and a member of the UK's Economic Crime Strategic Board at the Home Office, co-chaired by the Home Secretary and Chancellor. He is a member of the UK's Economic Security Public Private Forum Chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Wigley was educated at Exeter School on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Services Trade And Investment Board
The Financial Services Trade and Investment Board (FSTIB) is a partnership organization between the UK Government and British industry. It is part of HM Treasury department. The Board meets on a quarterly basis to develop high-growth initiatives such as Renminbi internationalisation, green finance and financial technology. Its aim is to strengthen Britain's position as the centre of global finance and deliver jobs and growth across the country. The FSTIB works closely with the Financial Services Organisation (FSO). The FSO is a key delivery partner for the FSTIB's initiatives. History The FSTIB was formed by Chancellor George Osborne in Budget 2013 to promote the UK's financial services industry. The Board first met on 8 October 2013 and was charged with leading the government's drive to promote external trade, attract inward investment and lift market access barriers for the UK's financial services sector. In July 2015, the Chancellor re-launched the FSTIB with a new board comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Braham
Sir Edward Braham (born 17 July 1961) is a British corporate lawyer, who serves as Chairman of M&G since 2022. Biography The son of David Braham and Louise ''née'' Treves, he was educated at Eton before studying law at Worcester College, Oxford ( BA) then as Vinerian Scholar for postgraduate studies ( BCL). Articled with Freshfields in 1985 and admitted as a solicitor in 1987, Braham was a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from 1995 until 2022, serving as global corporate practice group leader (2009–14), then senior partner (2016–21). Chairman of the Mutual Market Access Working Group, Professional and Business Services Council (2017–20), Braham was appointed a member of the PM’s Financial and Professional Business Services Council in 2019, and since 2022 as a non-exec board member of HM Treasury. A member of the Advisory Board of the Lord Mayor’s Appeal from 2016 until 2021, a liveryman of the Solicitors’ Company since 2011, and Third Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Swinburne, Baroness Swinburne
Jacqueline Kay Swinburne, Baroness Swinburne (; born 8 June 1967) is a British politician and life peer. She was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales between 2009 and 2019, representing the Conservative Party, and became a member of the House of Lords in 2023. She was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities from 1 March 2024 for Baroness Penn as a Minister on Leave. Early life and education Swinburne was born Jacqueline Kay Jones in Aberystwyth, Wales, on 8 June 1967. She was raised in West Wales, and can speak fluent Welsh. Swinburne was educated at Llandysul Grammar School and went on to earn a BSc degree in biochemistry and microbiology in 1988 and a PhD degree in medical research in 1991 from King's College London, followed by an MBA degree in 1994 from the University of Surrey, before starting a career in international healthcare and investment banking. Swinburne received national media attention in 1999 when she resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst & Young
EY, previously known as Ernst & Young, is a multinational corporation, multinational professional services partnership, network based in London, United Kingdom. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and PwC, it is one of the Big Four accounting firms, Big Four accounting firms. The EY network is composed of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company Company limited by guarantee, limited by guarantee. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. It primarily provides assurance services, assurance, tax, Information technology, information technology services (including managed services in areas like Cybersecurity, Cloud computing, Cloud, Digital transformation, Digital Transformation and Artificial intelligence, AI), management consulting, consulting, and Corporate services, advisory services to its clients. Ernst & Young Global Limited operates as a network of member firms which are structured as separate legal entities in a partnership, which has 395 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell (Lord Mayor)
Sir William Anthony Bowater Russell (born 15 April 1965) is a British people, British financier who served as the List of lord mayors of London, 692nd Lord Mayor of London, Lord Mayor of the City of London from 2019 to 2021. Biography Educated at Eton College, Eton and Durham University, graduating Bachelor of Arts, B.A., Russell started his career in financial services at First Boston in 1987, and joined Merrill Lynch in 1992, working in Hong Kong, New York City, New York and London, before leaving in 2006 for public service. Sheriffs of the City of London, Sheriff of the City of London for 2016/17, Russell was then elected Lord Mayor on 1 October 2019, taking Municipal corporation, office on 9 November 2019. In view of the global disruption to public life brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Russell was re-elected, on 29 September 2020, as Lord Mayor of London to serve a second term for 2021, the first Lord Mayor to serve more than one term since William_Cubitt_(politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Winfried Bischoff
Sir Winfried Franz Wilhelm Bischoff (10 May 1941 – 25 April 2023) was a German-born British banker who was the chairman of Lloyds Banking Group. He previously served as chairman and interim CEO of Citigroup in 2007. He was succeeded as CEO by Vikram Pandit on 11 December 2007. Bischoff stepped down as chairman on 23 February 2009 and was replaced by Richard Parsons. He had dual British and German citizenship. Bischoff was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to Banking. Early life and education Winfried Bischoff was born in Aachen, Germany, son of import-export entrepreneur Paul Bischoff and Hildegard, née Kühn, who had been working as a nanny in London when she met her future husband. Bischoff had an early education in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1955, he moved to Johannesburg where he received a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1961. Career Bischoff worked in the International Department of Chase Manhattan Bank from 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPMG
KPMG is a multinational professional services network, based in London, United Kingdom. As one of the Big Four accounting firms, along with Ernst & Young (EY), Deloitte, and PwC. KPMG is a network of firms in 145 countries with 275,288 employees, affiliated with KPMG International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee. The name "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". The initialism was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987. KPMG has three lines of services: financial audit, tax, and advisory. Its tax and advisory services are further divided into various service groups. In the 21st century, various parts of the firm's global network of affiliates have been involved in regulatory actions as well as lawsuits. History Early years and mergers In 1816, Robert Fletcher started working as an accountant and in 1839 the firm he worked for changed its name to Robert Fletcher & Co. William Barclay Peat join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BlackRock
BlackRock, Inc. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager, with US$11.5trillion in assets under management as of 2024. Headquartered in New York City, BlackRock has 70 offices in 30 countries, and clients in 100 countries. BlackRock is the manager of the iShares group of exchange-traded funds, and along with The Vanguard Group and State Street Corporation, State Street, it is considered to be one of the Big Three index fund managers. Its Aladdin (BlackRock), Aladdin software keeps track of investment portfolios for many major financial institutions and its BlackRock Solutions division provides financial risk management services. As of 2023, BlackRock was ranked 229th on the Fortune 500, ''Fortune'' 500 list of the largest United States corporations by revenue. BlackRock has sought to position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
