This Action Plan will save businesses across the country billions of pounds by cutting the number of regulators, streamlining their core legal duties and cracking down on complexity in the regulatory system. 

Visiting China and Hong Kong to champion our mutual financial endeavors.

Delighted to be working alongside the Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds to inform the government’s Small Business Strategy.

Discussing enhancing financial services with the UK-ASEAN Business Council (UKABC) - an independent partner to UK and Southeast Asian governments and the ASEAN Secretariat.

In partnership with City Veterans CIC, the Network will connect veterans and reservists from workplaces of all sizes and sectors, creating opportunities to meet, network, and celebrate the immense contribution the Armed Forces make to the Square Mile.

We rely on our Armed Forces to protect the very assets that make the City a global financial powerhouse. From the freedom of the seas that ensures global trade, to the freedom of the skies that facilitates movement across borders, our security infrastructure underpins everything we do.

Raising funds whilst walking the route that Richard ‘Dick’ Whittington, one of London’s most famous Mayor’s, took some 600 years ago to Mansion House in the City of London.

Wrapping up a highly productive series of meetings in Mumbai with key leaders from NSE India, the central bank, regulators, Tata Group, and Kotak Securities. 

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.