The UK is Australia’s seventh-largest trading partner and second-largest outside the Asia-Pacific region. Through our strong bilateral ties from the UK-Australia free trade agreement, AUKUS and CPTPP, we hope to further deepen our trade and partnership in financial services.

Supporting our fast-growing sector will unleash new growth across the UK at the Scale-Up Showcase.

The 9th Annual Tokyo-London Financial Seminar - focusing on fintech and AI applications as well as asset management to increase financial services trade between Japanese and UK firms, highlighting new opportunities for collaboration in these sectors

This report makes a compelling case for the strategic importance of risk management in driving sustainable growth. I commend it to all those interested in the future of our financial and professional services sector and the critical role that risk leadership will play in shaping that future.

Visiting the World Economic Forum in Davos 2025

My mayoral theme, Growth Unleashed, advocates pragmatic reforms to deepen UK capital markets without straining the Exchequer. Read my article for The Standard here.

I visited Northern Ireland to discuss how we can collaborate further to boost the financial and professional services sector across the United Kingdom.

Bahrain is a strategic gateway to the Gulf, and the UK’s financial expertise represents a partnership of immense value. I was delighted to visit and meet with high level officials and businesses.

The Annual Financial and Professional Services Dinner was held on the 14th of November at Mansion House. Chancellor Rt Hon Rachel Reeves gave her first Mansion House speech. This was a historic moment, being the first time a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered this address.

The Lord Mayor’s Show is the oldest, longest, best loved and least-rehearsed civic procession in the world. It dates back to the early 13th century when King John granted that the City of London could appoint its own Mayor. He required that each newly-elected Mayor should come upriver to distant Westminster and swear loyalty to the Crown, and the Mayors have been making that journey for over 800 years.

The Silent Ceremony and the Presentation of Addresses

I am honoured to be elected as the 696th Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Growth Unleashed

Discovering Space with the University of Strathclyde.

The launch of Homewards by HRH The Prince of Wales

The UK-Saudi Sustainable Infrastructure Forum